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Nicola Blackwood MP gives Helping Hands a thumbs up!

Four adults and six youth headed off to join the Ugandan staff in some of the local schools over half term. The youngsters had prepared for over a year for this trip. They were invited to share their adventures at the Houses of Parliament by Nicola Blackwood MP, who they had met at our Royal Event in June in Oxfordshire. She has been incredibly supportive of all that we do and has offered to assist us in anyway possible.

“I was so proud to attend the sixth anniversary of Helping Hands, a local charity that works to improve child health in Uganda. The celebration was at Cumnor Primary School, which has long been linked with a school in Uganda. The children whom I met were so excited to tell me about how they fund-raised to buy equipment, wrote letters to their friends in Uganda and, if they are able to raise the money, will visit that school in October. Not one person there - child, teacher or governor - expressed doubt about the value of that investment. It is an investment in the way in which future generations will think about and do aid, and that, I believe is an investment that is worth its weight in gold”.

See Helping Hands fights Malaria.