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For schools in remote African locations having a school bus means ensuring access to education for all, regardless of location or family circumstances.

It enables children from poverty-stricken families to attend school regularly, helping to break the cycle of poverty and provide them with a path to a brighter future.
This Giving Tuesday Elwa Sunrise in Northern Uganda is raising funds for a school bus. Go to https://www.loominternational.org/donate-2022/ to give.

John Bosco Tuli Aryam, director of Elwa Sunrise School, describes the road around his school ‘in sorry state’. And he says ‘Most of the pupils come from low-income families. Their parents work long hours or lack reliable transportation, making it hard for them to get to school. Without a bus, many of these children struggle to attend consistently, leading to missed opportunities for learning and growth.’

This Giving Tuesday Elwa Sunrise in Northern Uganda is raising funds for a school bus. Go to https://www.loominternational.org/donate-2022/ to give.

We still have a huge knowledge gap in today’s world. This has been driven home to us as we have worked among the most economically vulnerable. This is why we are so determined to push forward with our training and center our work in Loom on multiplying our training and equipping grassroots facilitators. This is the foundation on which our work stands. All the extra layers of early childhood education and healthcare stand on the shoulders of this core truth – that God has intentions for how our brain develops and what is needed for that to happen, for the growth of our emotional capacity, as well as the knowledge we need for life, for growing spiritually and becoming strong members in a thriving community.

As we train the early childhood educators, healthcare workers, the parents and the Sunday school teachers we are part of creating the thriving communities for which we long.

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