Hi!

Happy birthday to Kyarumba Nabuur! I joined Nabuur on 13th June 2005 so haven't been around quite as long as you!

As an occasional contributor, its great to see that you are making progress even if it is taking a little longer than you hoped...

I don't have any experience of community tourism, but am wondering if you have had any contact with Omiito Nabuur http://www.nabuur.com/modules/villages/mystory.php?villageid=602 who are working on that too. Although you are in different parts of the country, you may be able to share ideas, also if tourists want to stay in more than one location, you may be able to give them each others contact details.

Mary

Dear Jessica and Kyarumba neighbors:

I've been a neighbor of this great village for sometime now and I congratulate you all for your accomplishments. The movemement may be slow but we have proven that with all the contribution and help from caring neighbors, we can make a village thrive to become better.
I understand that you have so many plans for your community and we are with you all the way.
Best regards and may you have the best of health! :-D

Junjun

Dear Mary, Punjun,

Thanks alot for your feedback and congratulations too for all your contributions and sustained involvement in our online activities.

I would be very happy to hear more about what you think needs to be done better to help us realise our dream.

Punjun rightly put it that Kyarumba has many plans. but I would like to affirm that a community can have big and many dreams but prioritising is key. we can not handle every thing at a go.

So our current focus is girl child education and livelihood improvement for parents.

Indeed as an organisation trying to get established we are doing alot off line, registering the organisation, setting up the office working on policy documents and developing and engaging prospective partnerships. we are really very busy out here. We would be sharing updates online on how we are moving but at some stage the village became silent. we would like to encourage neighbors to get back and move together with us, give us advice and mentorship as you have always done before. we badly need it.

All in all we are progressing well and hope sooon we will have good stories to share.

Have a good day
Jessica

Hi Jessica

Over time, I have accumulated quite a long list of possible sources of funding, equipment, school booke etc.

It is at http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dgs9fnp6_0g5zp8p3n

The majority of sites give details of appliation procedures. Don't think I have posted it here before (apologies if I have!). I add things to it as I find them.

Getting active discussion going on Nabuur seems to be a problem for many villages, not just Kyarumba. The ones that work best seem to be those that have very clear tasks that neighbours can join in, plus active LRs and facilitators. But there also seems to be a bit of luck involved too...

Mary

Dear Jessica,

Do you know of any big business establishments located in your locality? Maybe, you list the name of companies and give them solicitation letter for your girl education program.
My idea is to have these establishments sponsor one or two children to complete the education process. If there are twenty companies who are willing to take part and assuming they will shoulder at least two school children, a total of 40 students will benefit from the project. :-)

Best regards,

Junjun

Hi Friends,
Hope you are fine, I have been quiet for some time but reflecting and planning the way forward as we move into the next three year cycle. For now let me share with you some quotes from a couple that visted Kyarumba in April 2008 please check out the photo galary as well

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Dear Jessica, After an unforgettable stay in Uganda - and especially in the Rwenzori mountains with you and your family - and after our stay in Tanzania and Zanzibar, we are back home and at work. I've to tell you that our stay in Uganda - between all our other experiences - made the deepest impression. Seeing the different projects and initiatives Dominique is working with was realy impressive. I hope she can made true her promisses to search a volunteer to support your project.If nothing will change Dominique will be back in the Netherlands at the end of june but I wonder for how long that will be. She loves Afrika and especially Uganda.Please greet your parents and thank them for the hospitality we met. It's a pity Dominique was a bit ill but even for her it was a heavy week to travel with us through your beautiful country. .And please greet and thank Maureen and her friends for their songs. If I did understand everything Maureen will be at school in Kampala now. We were surprised about her good results but even about the financial expences you have to do to make this possible.We cherish hope to meet you again in the future but we even know that it will be hard to realise that. So let us keep in touch. Best regards

Couple from the Netherlands

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Dominique is a Dutch volunteer who just returned back to the Netherlands. She has been working on projects in Uganda including Kyarumba

Maureen is one of the Kyarumba girl with a very promising talent ( Musician in the making) leading a girls drama group that promotes girl child education and HIV/AIDS control, but has financial constraints to pursue her secretarial course.

Good day friends
Jessica

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1. gardening, mini-farming
2. farm value-added products
3. livestock mini-farming
4. farmer’s market
5. retail store/market stall [school products]
6. Pedal/hand thresher
7. Pedal/hand pump
8. bucket drip irrigation kits
9. DVD/book selling
10. Welding shop
11. carpenter shop
12. Computers on 12 v.
13. Computer time rental
14. Cell phone time rental
15. composting business
16. Vermicomposting
17. composting toilets
18. sewing
19. clothes washer/hand
20. pot-in-pot food coolers
21. papyrus sanitary napkins
22. soil/cement brick
23. soil/cement roof tiles
24. fish production
25. arts and crafts
26. recycling business
27. darfurstoves.org
28. solar water heaters
29. solar food driers
30. solar battery chargers
31. solar cookers
32. solar heating
33. solar water purifier
34. solar lighting [schools, homes]
35. sandals from old tires
36. Pedal/hand grinder
37. Maize tortilla making
38. bicycle mechanic
39. bicycle trailer making
40. bicycle delivery service
41. B sales trailer: food, drinks, farm products, etc.
42. BT cargo carrier
43. BT delivery service
44. BT taxis [2 or 4 adults]