March 2022
11th Annual Anywhere in the World Raffle
Three weeks left to get your tickets! We have just under 100 tickets left before all tickets for 2022 are SOLD OUT!! Get yours now while you still can! Each ticket represents a chance to win two round trip tickets to ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, ON ANY AIRLINE. There are only 2,000 total tickets sold and tickets can be booked for up to TWO YEARS from date of drawing! The drawing will be held March 28th, 2022 via Live Facebook drawing (you do not need to be present to win). This is one of two major fundraisers that we rely on in order to keep our programs running smoothly. Thanks to our generous sponsor, BrightTrip, there is zero cost to PFP, and we are able to raise $40,000 in order to keep our programs running. We hope you will take part!
Sponsor Needed
We are looking for a sponsor for our sweet Chipa. She is in secondary school at Musana High and dreams of one day becoming a journalist. She is interested in current events and wants to make sure people in her community are well informed. Chipa is the most loving and caring big sister you could ever dream of and she loves to dance and sing with the younger children of PFP. Just $85/month will help PFP to keep Chipa enrolled in school and preparing for University! If you are interested, or have any questions, please reach out!
Please contact us if you have any questions regarding this opportunity: hope@peaceforpaulfoundation.org
Welcome to the Family!
This month, thanks to our very generous supporters, Ketty, Irene and Hamza have all found their sponsor match. The kids are so excited to have new friends from all the way across the world. And we are so grateful to our caring supporters for stepping up!
School Life
The PFP children are nearly a month in and starting to really get in the groove of being back at school after being out for almost two years. Our Staff Team and the Student advisory team (the elder PFP students in Universities and trade schools) visit the children at their schools every two weeks to check in, bring snacks, check on health and other concerns. Our aim is to ensure the children feel loved and supported as they transition back to a life of learning!
Victoria Junior School Group
Juniors students at school
Advisory members, Simon Peter and Ajuna visiting secondary level students at Musana
Children at Love Home
While most of our students are back at boarding school, there are still a handful of children who remain at Love Home year round. The children who remain behind attend day school and come home to their loving PFP aunties and uncles in the afternoons. All children under the age of 6 as well as any high risk children (just rescued children, in off the streets, children dealing with mental health issues or PTSD) remain home year round. The receive frequent visits from our AHU students as well as the main program University level students. A lot of our elder students come home on weekends to spend time with these littles and provide love and support as they heal and grow. In addition to visits from their older PFP brothers and sisters, our mental health therapist, HIldah works full time, 40 hours per week with these children. What an army they have behind them!
Letters from Sponsors!
Facebook Birthday Fundraisers
Love Home boys and girls, wishing “Auntie Heidi” a happy birthday!
Birthday Celebrations
Happy, happy birthday to our February birthday celebrants! We always do our best to make sure every child in our main program gets a chance to feel special on their birthday. Each child receives a gift and has a small celebration during their birthday week followed by a BIG birthday celebration all together at the swimming pool during school holidays. Many sponsors get involved by sending gifts to their child as well. All children deserve to feel special on their day and we always do our best to make it so!
We will look forward to celebrating (with a huge swimming pool party) all children whose birthdays fall between January and April during the long April holiday!
Esau and Julius celebrating their February birthdays with the Love Home children
Happy Birthday to Our March Birthday Girls and Boys- we wish you all THE BEST as we celebrate YOU this month!
If you are the sponsor of a birthday child this month, you are welcome to send us an email and we can work together to make their day even more special!
Student Advisory Team
While all of the Student Advisory Team students are back at school, they still make time to meet at minimum once per month to discuss PFP happenings and how they can help make things better for all of the children of PFP. We are so proud of our team of elder students!
Ajuna, Tikol and Simon Peter holding their monthly meeting
Amazon Smile
A super easy way for you to support The Peace for Paul Foundation while you do your regular shopping! Add The Peace for Paul Foundation as your regular charity today. This is absolutely free for you and Amazon will share a small percentage of your purchase with us. Over time this could really make a difference.
See below for instructions:
Step 1. Visit our unique Amazon Charity url at https://smile.amazon.com/ch/
Step 2. Sign in to your Amazon account like you normally would. Be sure to always start shopping Amazon by typing in smile.amazon.com into your browser.Once you’ve registered PFP as your charity of choice, it will always default to that.
** Important…. Be sure to always start your shopping on Amazon by typing in smile.amazon.com into your browser.
The PFP Junior Program
The Juniors Program works with families in our community so parents may be able to send their children to school. These children live full time with their families but for them, poverty has prevented the children from attending school regularly. This program is a partnership between parents and PFP to supplement on what they are able to contribute so parents may take pride in being able to send their children to school through their own hard work. The ages of children in this program range from four years to eighteen years of age and we currently have 89 students who are benefiting from this partnership.
PFP Juniors students at school
PFP Juniors Supplemental Programs
In an effort to address the needs of the whole child and his or her family, our PFP Juniors coordinator has ramped up the supplemental programs being offered. Each month, there is a regular schedule for career guidance, hygiene and sex education, skills lessons (knitting, painting, tailoring and dance lessons), mental health therapy, family planning and birth control for parents, community outreach programs (food distribution and family empowerment), fun day, and tutoring. The Juniors children are LOVING it and getting involved with more and more programs by the week!
Waiswa and Kato at school
Please contact us if you have any questions regarding this opportunity: hope@peaceforpaulfoundation.org
Family Sponsorship Opportunities
We are always looking for general sponsors to help our family thrive. Essentially, as a general family sponsor, you are the sponsor of ALL of the children. We have opportunities for Medical Family Sponsor, Dental Family Sponsor as well as Mental Health Family Sponsor. A Family Sponsor commitment can be $25/$50/$100 per month.
Please contact us if you have any questions regarding this opportunity: hope@peaceforpaulfoundation.org
Director (on the Board) Needed
We are looking to add a new Director or two to our board and what better place to look than from within our team of awesome supporters. We are always looking for ways to improve and would love to find someone with a background in Microfinance, child development or child psychology. If you would like to support the work of PFP in a more meaningful way, we’d love to chat. Please reach out via the email below and we can go from there to determine if it might be a good fit. At the very least…. we’ll have a great conversation and a chance to connect.Please contact us if you have any questions regarding this opportunity: hope@peaceforpaulfoundation.org
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