NYALEBBE TO RECEIVE FUNDS FROM STUDENTS IN EUROPE

CDA now plans to take off with the first phase implementation of the training in Tailoring and Garments Cutting and Carpentry and Joinery. This has been possible with the funds from the students of Dr. Aletta Jacobs College in the Netherlands who held a sponsor run for Nyalebbe and came up with an incredible final amount of Euro 4800.

We wish to extend our sincere thanks to all the students, the administration of the college, Nabuur, our volunteers/neighbors and all those who have selflessly contributed and will still contribute towards our projects.

In the picture above is our Chairperson Mama Mado and two other members standing next to our sign post, behind is the shelter erected by the community for training in tailoring and garments cutting, with the funds coming, we intend to g,et a bigger space which will accommodate both Tailoring and Carpentry projects.

10 STUDENTS ENROLLED FOR TAILORING COURSE

Following the purchase of one sewing machine with the donation that we receive in the mid last month, there has been a very good turn up of the community to enrolment for the tailoring course; we have 4 young men and 6 women and girls. This has been a very good start up within a month; we believe that in three months to come we shall have a good number hence need for more sewing machine.

In a related development, we have received another donation of $AUST340; the donation is a contribution from a few individual from Australia who came together with the help of one of our volunteers (neighbors) to fundraise for our startup. This money will be used to purchase one sewing machine and its accessories and a basic start for very small project of “table cloth making” for the women, the decision of how the money should be used was reached by the executive committee in their last meeting held on 22/12/07.

In the picture are men digging holes to make a shelter for training since the rented room is not enough.

ADC RECEIVES AGWARA MACHINE

Community Development Alliance has acquired a new sewing machine which was a donation from one of our volunteers Mr. Dennis Argall for a basic start up. He (Dennis) named it Agwara Machine after the famous Agwara dance of the Alur people. The news was so exiting to not only the executive committee members of the organization but to the whole community of Nyalebe. The receipt of the donation (machine) also motivated the community who pledged to contribute money to pay for four month rent for the room where the machine will be used and stored and to buy other things like a pair of scissors, materials, and thread so that the training can begin straight away with some few students. This means the organization now has an office which is running, the office is located at the entrance of Nyalebe trading Centre about 500 meters from the heart centre.