Stella-Rosie Foundation

Our Name

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“Stella”, my mother, taught me by her example how fierce determination can achieve great things. But she taught me something else as well, which I now realise is so much more important that I am dedicating the rest of my life to it.

The “Rosie” in the Stella-Rosie Foundation is my husband’s late wife and the mother of my step-daughter. She missed three years of school during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in WW II, and spent the rest of her life as a scholar, teacher and advocate for multicultural education and international understanding.

The purpose of our foundation is to place deserving children in private schools so they can take advantage of the opportunities provided by such schools.I do not want anyone to think that I am criticising my country of birth for its public educational system. Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa with a population of 31 million. Education is a high priority for the government, but there are simply not enough resources to educate its children to the limit of their abilities.

Our Students

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We have a network of public school administrators who introduce us to their best students in hopes of helping them advance. But in rural societies, simple word of mouth works wonders when children hear that someone may be able to help them go to school. Finding candidates is the easiest part of our job.

The hardest part is deciding which candidates to support. They are all deserving; that’s not the issue. The issue is, who is most likely to succeed? With limited resources, difficult, even agonizing choices have to be made. We talk to them and we make our decisions. With more resources we can help more deserving children. It’s that simple.

Help Us

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If you are moved to help Ugandan children like James, Annette, Gidion and Sylvia, please send a check or click on the link to donate by credit card. We thank you!The Stella-Rosie Foundation is a non-profit organization headquartered in the United States, and contributions to it are tax-deductible. Our officers and directors are all volunteers, and every dollar contributed goes to direct support for Ugandan children. Thank you very much for your gift.

What We Do

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We take the children to their schools, pay and keep records of all expenses, find places for the orphans who have no homes to stay during school holidays and buy food for them, and accompany younger children who do have relatives to their home villages during breaks , often an eight-hour bus ride.

Once each trimester, boarding schools have a “Parents’ Day” when parents can visit their children and bring them their favorite home-cooked foods. (Boarding school fare is nutritious but monotonous.) These are busy times for the liaison officer, who tries to visit and bring food to every orphan child. Without her they would sit quietly in their dormitory rooms during Parents’ Day.

Our Mission

admin — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:16:31 +0000

The purpose of our foundation is to place deserving children in private schools so they can take advantage of the opportunities provided by such schools. We do not want anyone to think that we are criticising Uganda for its public educational system. Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa with a population of 31 million. Education is a high priority for the government, but there are simply not enough resources to educate its children to the limit of their abilities.

About Uganda

admin — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:15:56 +0000

Uganda is located in East Africa, and occupies a fertile plateau on the equator about the size of Oregon. Towering mountains form its western border with Rwanda and Congo, and the source of the Nile River in Jinja is a short distance from the capital of Kampala. It has a stable government and rich agricultural resource but little manufacturing, and except for export crops like coffee, tea and flowers, most farming is subsistence. It is home to 31 million people, 66% of whom are under the age of 15 – the youngest population in the world. Two decades ago it was ravaged by AIDS, but thanks to an aggressive education campaign by the government, NGOs and the private sector, the HIV infection rate fell to 7% in 2007.

Uganda achieved its independence from Great Britain peacefully in 1962, but two brutal dictatorships – Idi Amin from 1971-1979 and Milton Obote from 1980-1985 – retarded the country’s development.

A brighter future for Uganda depends on many things, but as with any country, better education is the key.