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The Xavier Project aims to provide education to Congolese refugee children who have fled to Uganda and Kenya and to offer hope and prospects for their communities.

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10.02.12

The holiday programme is one of the many programmes run by the Xavier project; it is designed to help keep the beneficiaries of the project away from trouble especially during their school holidays. Most of the kids that are enrolled in this project come from refugee families that live in abject poverty. This is to say that their families live on less than a dollar a day and as such they live in the urban slum areas where they are exposed to various social immoralities.

Over the years our kids have worked in homes for the destitute for example in the just concluded year our kids worked at the mother Teresa children’s home in Lan’gata which is a home that caters for the physically and mentally challenged people in the society and they were able to take out a lot of life lessons. Some of the activities the children were involved in included;

Another aspect of the holiday programme revolves around the beneficiaries’ education, here the project organizes for them to have extra tutorials where they can receive help in areas they did not understand in school, it also gives them an opportunity to exchange the different ideas they bring with them from

their different schools.

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30.11.11

As a celebration for the end of the academic year Xavier Project Uganda had an outing to Entebbe Zoo. It was a wonderful day and provided some much needed respite after a hectic year. A highlight of the day was seeing the chimpanzees and as always the kids could not avoid the temptation of having a swim in Lake Victoria which just happened to be there when they most needed cooling down.

18.08.11

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Xavier Project Newsletter 2011

20.04.11

Enoch orphaned

The mother of Enoch, one of our youngest students in Uganda tragically passed away last Sunday. Mwajuma Furaha was giving birth to Enoch’s brother who survived. There has been no mention of the father of the new baby and as far as the Xavier Project are aware Enoch and his brother now have no family to speak of. In fact when they fled Congo in 2004 it was partly because Enoch’s father and grand parents had died.

Mwajuma gave strength to the Congolese community by her example of courage in the face of adversity. She helped to form an enterprise for the Xavier Project mothers selling Congolese fabrics and dresses and this has helped them all to cover their everyday costs. She was a loving mother to Enoch and will be hugely missed.

Enoch and his new brother now have no home or family but the Congolese refugee community are doing their best to look after them. The Xavier Project is launching a fund-raising campaign to make this easier for them. If you would like to support this cause or any other programme that the Xavier Project is undertaking please donate on our justgiving page (link on the right of this article).

05.02.11

Kenya administrator Edwin Ariz publishes report on the new community service project in Nairobi. Click here to read more…

21.01.11

The Xavier Project Presents the Bongo Ball in St Andrews

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21.12.10

It was with great sadness that we received the news of the death of Rogers Yamba, the father Raphael, of one of our students in Nairobi. He died on 21st December 2010 after two weeks of illness.

Rogers initially fled Congo in 2003 because he was being recruited to fight for Laurent Kabila’s forces (the FDL). When he refused to join they killed his wife and threatened the lives of the rest if his family so he had to escape. In Congo he had been a professional boxer so when he arrived in Uganda he started training boxers. He was relatively successful for some time despite language difficulties but after some time he began to be treated badly by the Ugandan authorities and had to escape to Kenya. He took with him two children from his first marriage, Raphael, who is being sponsored by the Xavier Project, and Jemima who is now nine years old. After arriving in Kenya Rogers married again and had one young child.

While in Nairobi Rogers never had a permanent job but he occasionally bought T-shirts and sold them at a profit. Without this income Raphael and his family are in an even more vulnerable position. Raphael is a bright child aged 14 who got good results in his first year of secondary school. The Xavier Project would really appreciate any extra support for Raphael to make sure he stays in school. If you would like to be an official sponsor and secure Raphael’s education in the future please contact edmundpage@hotmail.com