Helping Hands

With Escape Expeditions you get the opportunity to spend a day working with Soft Power Education on one of their projects. Your reward will be to see exactly how valuable your contribution of time and effort is to the children.

Soft Power Education, a UK registered (number 1098936) charity based in Jinja, Uganda, was set up over 7 years ago by Hannah Small, a woman who traveled through Uganda and saw a need for improved primary education.

Land was initially gifted by local communities enabling Soft Power
Education to build and maintain two pre-schools for AIDS orphans.

During those early years Soft Power Education was also made aware of the
desperate need for better classrooms and facilities in 20 government run
primary schools. Soft Power Education is now refurbishing, over a 5 year
period, these schools within the Budondo sub-county.

Since November 2003 the charity has worked in more than 16 of these 20 primary schools. They have built over 20 new classrooms, refurbished over 35 condemned classrooms, installed over 15 water catchment tanks, excavated
over 20 pit latrines and painted over 100 classrooms with educational
teaching aids.

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"You can spend a day volunteering with the charity, doing anything from whitewashing classrooms, painting teaching aids, brick laying, or smashing rocks with big hammers..."

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They have also built a special needs unit complete with books and materials,
resourced a Teacher Training Centre, held an International Arts Project and
run a Youth Training Programme for young males within the community.
Having completed such an extensive amount of work within the primary
schools the charity built a locally run and managed working pottery and an inspiring Education Centre deep within the village of Kyabirwa, at Bujagali Falls.

All of these projects have been possible with the help of visiting tourists,
independent long term volunteers, teams of hard-working students,
inspired donors and ex-volunteers.

With your help Soft Power is continuing to improve the educational
facilities of Budondo and extending their reach into other areas of Uganda
and East Africa.

From being able to support a small group of orphans from one community,
the charity is growing into an organisation that is aiming to inspire and educate
more children and adults through tourists visiting and supporting Uganda
and Soft Power Education.