Rubaga Friends
- a non-profit, tax-exempt charity
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www.rubagafriends.org
rubagafriends@gmail.com
Based in Tucson, Arizona
Phone 520-327-7922
African children in huge numbers have lost their parents to armed conflicts and illnesses.
Insufficient nutrition and health care, and uncertainty about education and lodging add to their traumas. Their future is imperiled.
The children need all the help they can get.
RUBAGA FRIENDS
Rubaga Friends in Tucson, Arizona focuses on 300 children at the Rubaga Community School in Kampala, Uganda. Since its start, the school has cared for very poor children and children without parents.
The Rubaga Friends program is designed to assist the school to accomplish its mission. Read more about the children, the school and the Rubaga Friends activity at the following pages - use the navigation menu to the left.
See also the Rubaga School's own web-site:
AFRICAN CHILDREN
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Updated August 27, 2010
Recent events
New kindergarten dedicated during the Rubaga Friends annual visit to the Rubaga School More in RUBAGA NEWS #7, which can be accessed by selecting NEWS from the NAVIGATION MENU
Work on the kindergarten project started in February 2010. The first floor of the building was ready for use in June 2010. Hopefully, funds for completion of work on the second floor will become available within too long . Then the school will have a wonderful and spacy house for the pre-school children activities.
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Family and Friends of Grammoo
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The Dr. David Jacoby Memorial Fund
have generously donated funds to finance the major share of construction costs of the new building. The ground floor is already in use, entailing a tremendous improvement of life for the small children while, at the same time, somewhat reducing the crowdedness at the main school. The challenge is now to find sufficient economic means to finish the first floor.
During the annual visit to the Rubaga Community School in July 2010, Rubaga Friends board member, Dave Flieger. was accompanied by his daughter, Lauren, (left).
Robin Gwozdz and her son, Ben, seen in front of the Grammoo kindergarten (right), also took part in the visit.
The kindergarten is built in memory of Robin's mother, Roberta Calkins, widely known as Grammoo.
Family and Friends of Grammoo is the major provider of funds for the project
Rubaga Community School, main building.
During the dedication ceremony, Robin presented this
plaque, which is now anchored in a wall inside the huse.
Robin and Ben together with school board members, and Government and City officuals after the dedication.
