Sponsored by our twin Rotary Club of Wynberg, Cape Town. US Dollars 570 was given to support the Education of a Needy Child for 2 years. The Club modified this to "Education of a Needy Girl Child". Sarah Katushabe who lost both her parents when she was 8years was identifies as worthy of this support. She hails from Nyakatunguru-Kanungu District near the Congo border. When the Wynberg Grant got exhausted after senior 2,the Club offered to continue paying for the education up to senior 4. We have also transferred her from the remote Girls School in Kinyasano-Rukungiri to Lake Side Senior Secondary School in Kampala.

The project is located in Lyatonde-Rakai District. Salama is a Swahili word for Peace; the SHIELD is acronym for Sustaining Health Initiatives Enabling Local Development. Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Hamilton AM, Ontario, Canada the Project aims at supporting, strengthening and replicating HIV/AIDS related health and development programs. These include the provisional of sexual and reproductive Health education to adolescents, counseling Aids victims and provision of clean water. Despite the amount of work the government of Uganda has done on educating people about HIV/AIDS, the level of awareness amongst rural Ugandan youth is still low. There are still few centers where such information can easily be obtained; Education levels (illiteracy) are still low and strong cultural beliefs still bar patients from reporting to Health Centres. Salama Shield Foundation has pit up a community Development Center (CDC) to help address some of these issue

After 20 years of hard work, Rotary and its partners are on the brink of eradicating this tenacious disease, but a strong push is needed now to root it out once and for all. It is a window of opportunity of historic proportions. Your contribution will help Rotary raise $200 million to match $355 million in challenge grants received from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The resulting $555 million will directly support immunization campaigns in developing countries, where polio continues to infect and paralyze children, robbing them of their futures and compounding the hardships faced by their families.

As long as polio threatens even one child anywhere in the world, children everywhere remain at risk. The stakes are that high.