GIVE International, the Walper Hotel and The Record staff present a unique project with unique fundraising event…a silent auction for building a school in Uganda, the Walper School…

These students from the remote community of Nawantumbi are admiring their new school uniforms.

These uniforms are not just new, they are the first ever, thanks to a collaborative school building project involving Waterloo-based GIVE International, Kitchener’s Michael von Teichman, new owner of the Walper Terrace Hotel and The Record’s reporter Valerie Hill.

The School-Building Project

The Walper Hotel in Kitchener is donating $20,000 to build a school in the remote community of Nawantumbi, the first time this community has ever received any type of aid. To assist, Waterloo Region Record reporter, Valerie Hill will be travelling there Sept 28 to help with construction and will raise money for necessary items such as desks and school supplies for a school that right now is a mud walled shack with a tin roof and dirt floors…yet holds 400 eager students.

Read The Record on how it all began here.

Check out the story of the Walper School here.

You can follow the project from fundraising to completion on these pages by checking in regularly with Valerie’s Blog.

The Dream Auction

The Dream  For Uganda Fundraising Silent Auction was held on Saturday June 11th at The Museum, Downtown Kitchener. It included music, food, access to the new Grossology exhibition and once-in-a-lifetime experiences to bid for.

This gala beginning to the fundraising campaign to supply the school raised half of the $10,000 target and fired up the imaginations of the Waterloo Region community.

There is plenty more to do!

Get Involved

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