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Working with Amigos - our chosen charity
There are many ways in which you can make a difference in this world. This is our way.
Global English has partnered with the UK charity Amigos to help alleviate child poverty in Africa. Based in Barnstaple, UK, Amigos is a local Christian charity who we have come to know and trust. Unlike some larger organisations, where money can go into high overheads or expensive administration, Amigos seeks to ensure that every donation is maximised. So every time you buy a course from Global English, a percentage of your course fee is donated to this worthy cause. As you read through these pages, you'll find out more about the work of Amigos and how you can help.
The Amigos Mission
To make a positive difference in the lives of widows, orphans and underprivileged people in sub-Saharan Africa. Providing care, education and vocational training, we will endeavour to empower the next generation of mothers and fathers to achieve their highest potential, helping them to become confident, caring and self-supporting individuals.
Here's how we help
We have been touched by the honest work of the members of the Amigos charity, so we have agreed to give 10% of all Global English profits to Amigos on an ongoing basis. This means that a portion of every product you buy from us goes to help educate young people in Uganda. Specifically, your donations go towards paying for the teachers at Kira Farm and helping to supply books and materials for their studies. You can find out more about how the Sponsor a Teacher programme works here.
Money raised by sales of Global English courses is sent to Amigos every 3 months support local teachers at the Kira Farm project, helping to educate the next generation of Ugandans.
Help with education
Globally, around 100 million children cannot go to school - yet most people, including world leaders, see education as a route out of poverty. If you believe that 'education is the route out of poverty' then there are a number of ways in which you can help. International Singing Star Joss Stone helped to raise the £7,500 needed to build the first classroom at Kira Farm. Click here to hear Joss talk about the work of Amigos.
Here's how you can help...
Here are 3 ways in which you can help make a practical difference to the everyday lives of Ugandans being supported by Amigos.
1. Make a donation
If you already have your TEFL under your belt but would still like to contribute, then it is easy to do. Simply click on the button below, which will take you to a website where you can donate to Amigos. This is a zero commission site, so you can be confident that 100% of your donation goes straight to Amigos for work at Kira Farm.
2. Sponsor a child
Amigos extends its help to children in Kampala, Lira and Masindi through the child sponsorship programme. This is designed to give a child not only schooling but one hot meal each day, scholastics materials and a school uniform. So for a few pence a day, you can make a big difference. Find out how you can sponsor a child and help to change a life.
3. Volunteer
But if you are ready to do more, then we can point you in the right direction. Click here and we will take you to our Volunteer pages...
About Kira Farm
Kira Farm - creating a self-sustainable project
Kira Farm has been created by Ugandans with farming experience spanning more than 50 years. In this facility, via a twelve-month residential training course, Amigos will give some of the neediest Ugandans, young and old, an opportunity to learn farming and vocational skills. After the proper training students will be offered their own livestock, tools, trees and seeds - so that they can return to their villages with those animals, tools and skills and pass the knowledge on. Their aim is to develop innovative ideas that include chicken incubation for self-sustainability. Kira farm will be run and staffed by skilled Ugandans.
Vision
The Kira Farm vision is promote basic education and skills for widows, orphans and disadvantaged teenagers. To help establish small but viable businesses in rural villages via a 12 month training programme at the end of which students will be equipped with farm packages of livestock, feeds, seeds and tools. To encourage independence and teach a good moral code for living in Ugandan society addressing health and hygiene, fist aid, nutrition, HIV-AIDS awareness, sexual morality. To teach simple Biblical values for everyday living - honesty, integrity, fidelity and enabling trustworthy and self-reliant citizens to return to their various communities, becoming a positive example for the next generation.
