One of the volunteers from the Monmouthshire Rural Support Centre (MRSC) at Monmouthshire Livestock Market, is also a Director of a Charity called 'Give Me Hope Africa Wales' that supports the communities in Legenya Sub County in Sironko, Eastern Uganda.

Nessa Jenkins planned to travel out to Uganda in the New Year, so the Directors of MRSC put out a call for items of stationary such as pens, pencils, coloured pencils, rubbers, sharpeners, girls’ pants & bra's etc. for the children in the village.

Supporters of the Centre soon started to fill up the donation basket, and Nessa was overjoyed by the amount collected, and thanked everyone for their generosity.

Shirley Hughes the MRSC Coordinator said ‘the latest news from Uganda is that Nessa’s suitcases containing the ‘goodies’ were lost in transit, but yesterday they arrived in Uganda and will be delivered to the village and will be distributed to the children in the village school very soon’.

Give me Hope Africa Wales is a Christian charity supporting communities in Legenya Sub County in Sironko, Eastern Uganda.

84 per cent of Ugandans live in rural areas, where poverty remains deep-rooted. Give Me Hope Africa Wales is a UK based charity which supports the rural community in Sironko, Eastern Uganda. They have raised funds for a number of projects since 2014 including a community centre which can be utilised for a wide range of projects from health and education to livelihoods and recreation.

Since 2013, Give Me Hope Africa has been supporting communities by building a school, caring for orphans, providing a monthly mobile clinic as well as overseeing the building and development of their latest vision; a health clinic and community centre.

Pictured left to right - Jonathan Stephens (MRSC Director) Ness Jennings Volunteer) Bob Stevenson (MRSC Project Lead & Director) and Shirley Hughes (MRSC Project Coordinator