Earlier this year, the digital camera that was used to visually document exciting news and progress being made at Arrow-Web Hospital was stolen when Bramuel was ambushed by a group of robbers on his way home from a conference. Since that time, he has not been able to replace it.

Jennnifer has located a volunteer organization that provides tons of food to children around the world: FMSC.org. (feed my starving children.org) they provide nutritious food packages made of soy, rice, vegetables and chicken, which are reconstituted with boiling water - the perfect lunch for our school children. Problem is getting it shipped to Uganda. We need to research what ports we have to ship from in the US and where it arrives in Uganda. Then, who are the companies that do shipping on those routes, and how can we get them to donate, perhaps a half a container?

Alicia, a volunteer from the United States, is in Nepal for the next 6 months to work with Min. She has created a website located here:

http://eccnepal.wordpress.com/

For this task, we are looking for volunteers to help Alicia by writing content that can be transferred onto the website. She already has some thought starters listed.

If you have specific questions about the Education Concern Center to help you with this task, those can be posted here so we can provide necessary clarification.

Many months ago, a blog was created to establish an Internet presence for the Sankhuwasabha Education Scholarship Foundation (SESF). Since then, new results have been achieved and the blog has not been updated. While Tejanath has created a place for information about SESF and child sponsorship on the new Sankhuwasabha.com website, this is still the only place on the Internet specifically devoted to SESF.

There are many Nepali people and others from around the world taking advantage of the social networking site Facebook. We would like to create a group on Facebook that showcases the Sankhuwasabha Education Scholarship Foundation and provides basic information to people who are interested. I believe based on the initial response from the Sankhuwasabha website and my own networking there that this may be one tool to help SESF effectively communicate information about their organization and what they do.

Is there anyone with a Facebook account willing to take on this task?

The present toilet facilities at the school are not sufficient. For this task, we are looking for volunteers to research different options for construction of toilets in developing countries to improve the overall sanitation issues around the school. Min will be hopefully able to take some pictures of the existing conditions on his upcoming trip to help better define the present situation as well.

We are going to analyse our present method of feeding the children. We have to figure out how to improve the quality and quantity of food, as well as plan for better efficiency and lowering our costs. We realise this is rather a lofty goal, but we believe there are always ways for improving our present system. To do this we will try to cooperate with other Nabuur groups in Nairobi, or set up businesses with the help of a micro-financing group (e.g. www.Kiva.org).

Now that we have a plan for our program and have a list of potential organizations to contact, we need assistance in drafting a letter and submitting to those organizations for funding.

Now that we have all the research needed to start a school feeding program, we need assistance in compiling a brief plan for the program. This plan will be used to guide us as well as submit to organizations that may be able to provide funding for our program.

There are many programs around the world that offer various forms of school feeding programs. We already have some basis on what a program should look like, but require more specific information on how successful food programs in Uganda are being operated.

We need help researching organizations that offer school feeding programs specifically in Uganda. We would like to learn more about the following:

The costs associated of running a program in Uganda
Types of food they offer
Successes and lessons they may have to offer