Support a schoolkid in Uganda
Help a child go to school – with just €250 per year!
What we do: With your donation, we can send children from Kyakataama, a small village in western Uganda, to school. For only €250 per year, we ensure they can attend classes – including school materials and lunch.
Why this is important: Families in Kyakataama live off subsistence farming and rarely have enough money to send their children to school. Without support, many children are forced to drop out. Through our program, they can continue their education, which changes not only their future but also that of their families.
Your donation changes lives:
- 100% of the funds go directly to the children.
- Your contribution relieves families and gives them a chance to improve their financial situation.
- The Toonda Cultural Center promotes self-help and fosters long-term change.
Join us – support a child! With just €250 per year, you help a child experience an entire year of school. Together, we can make the world a little better.
Toonda Cultural Center – Help for Self-Help
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About Smart Kyakataama:
We arrange school sponsors for children in Kyakataama, a small village near Fort Portal in Western Uganda. The large families mostly live as self-supporters in mud huts, money is hardly available and therefore the children cannot be sent to school.
We want to change this!
Thanks to our programme, 78 kids are now able to go to school and make their families proud. There is still more to come!
We connect sponsors with children in Kyakataama, a small village near Fort Portal in western Uganda. Large families primarily live as subsistence farmers in mud huts, and money is scarce, making it difficult for children to attend school.
Why we’re doing this
After falling in love with the Crater Lakes region in western Uganda, we moved here to Kyakataama village. We wanted and still want to promote cultural exchange on the ground between artists of Uganda and Germany, to create not only an art exchange but also a cultural exchange between two continents. We have been working on “TOONDA”, as we call our project (Swahili: to create), since October 2018.
We quickly grew fond of our neighbours in the village of Kyakataama. The families live as self-supporters, mostly in mud huts with 6-12 children. The food they grow themselves is just enough, and the money they earn from small jobs here and there is of course invested in food. The question quickly came to us whether the children can go to school and what that costs at all. Many parents apparently try to send one or the other child to school when they have just earned something. As soon as the money runs out and the school fees can no longer be paid, the children are excluded from school.
KYAKATAAMA
The settlement of Kyakataama is about 6 hours’ drive from the capital Kampala and 1 hour from Fort Portal. Small huts spread over several hills at the crater lake Nyambuga. The inhabitants are mostly Atoro and speak Rutoro. Few speak English, some men can write, as they used to be sent to school preferentially. Our neighbours are hardworking farmers who mainly grow matooke (green plantains), beans, maize and cassava. Our neighbours are helpful, calm and friendly people who work hard to make things better for their children. Since sons inherit land, fathers are now also convinced that their daughters should go to school so that they can build their own future.
Since we are looking for sponsors for the children in the village and everyone here wants to be “smart”, the name of the project was quickly decided:
SMART KYAKATAAMA
Toonda 