Nurtured at KiBO

In my view the youth should scramble for charity opportunities. One main reason to my view is that, in charity you will experience less discrimination based on your education background, religious, and also nationality.

Try and think, a group of 15 youth seated in a round table trying to brainstorm the best way forward, and each of them has an idea that he or she thinks is best. At this point we had to go by consensus. During this time we had been allocated an abrupt three weeks through which we were expected to initiate the project and fundraise to fund a budget that we had already prepared, We had to work out how to raise ugx972,000. Coming up with fundraising strategies was really a task I mean it was no easy task. Some members thought it was better for us to raise the money by only staging a charity concert, others thought it was best for us to carry out a charity car wash and call it a day, while others thought we had to carry out the two tasks in order to accomplish our goal, ugx 972,000.

With our daily obligations at the foundation to attend regular class instructions in computing ( one of KiBO Foundation's pillars) we thought it was impossible for us to fundraise in three weeks, and of course we suggested a reschedule of the project fundraiser and implementation date. Do you know what this meant? We had programmed our minds that we could not make it within the allocated time. In the nick of time it came to our knowledge that we had to beat that target. Finally, we didn't beat the target.

After the holidays,we were back to work as usual but this time we had to do it. The experience was really fantastic, since with only a week to prepare, market and sensitize people about our work, we managed to raise ugx 250,000(equivalent to US$125) from the charity car wash.

Most important about the 5Th class first fundraising event, was that we learnt how to attract attention. We had quite a big white piece of cloth at the entrance to the washing bay that read "CHARITY CAR WASH, HELP CREATE AWARENESS ABOUT THE DEAF" in addition Shafic, one of us, in collaboration with Kampala Musical School band, staged quite attracting classical music, you should have been present to see us matching on the busy Ggaba road. We even polished shoes as a means of raising the funds, I just wish you were there, you would have left with a smile on your face and your shoes sparkling, I guarantee you, though for the socks you would have paid a thousand dollars for them to be cleaned!

As VB ( VOLUNTEER BIG), even after KiBO I look out for more charity opportunities. Its really fun.