Our mission
The project of the local association MADO has as its mission not only to provide academic training as a primary school, but also to give shelter and hope to orphaned or abandoned children, as well as to children who, due to vulnerable circumstances, have to live separated from their parents, children from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds.
We currently have more than 500 children in two primary schools, of whom of which more than 70 have found a home in our schools and outbuildings. The team of teachers, all volunteers, make this possible by also residing on site and creating a warm family atmosphere.
One of these schools is located in Kagoma, in the northwest of the Ugandan capital, Kampala. The second school is in Nyabuliko (Kyegegwa district), a small, isolated, rural village about 45 minutes’ drive from the town of Mubende, about 3 hours west of Kampala. It has a large population (about 14,000 people) scattered over a wide geographical area. In fact, the students who live farthest away have to walk more than two hours to get to class, as there is no nearest school or educational center.
How did it originate?
I met James Donal, the founder, while studying in England at the IBTI in Burgess Hill. Unlike many people who come from developing countries, James always expressed a desire to return to his home country of Uganda to take what he had learned in England. His visa allowed him to work on the weekends, which he did at a McDonalds, in Burgess Hill. After his studies, he returned to Uganda, and with all the money he had saved, he founded MADO, acquiring the land where the two orphanage-schools are now located. But who better than James to explain it in his own words:
“Another blessings God opened for me to go to the United Kingdom in 2009, that’s where I met with my brother Fabrice. MADO; was started back in 2012 after my return from United Kingdom, from my small savings while working with Macdonald in the UK. I sensed a great burden for the few of some children who were orphans, abandoned children, street children from terrible state of poverty, abused children, children who were having no food, no clothes, no footwear no Education, no medical care and some children having no place to live. Though there are many of them, but God led us to select to have the specific ones in great need for help.”
And so, his dream came true. We, from Saving Dreams Int’l, want to continue making this dream come true, and support the dreams of each one of the children who are in MADO, and those who will enter, until they become a reality.
