Dear Friends of FEMRITE,
It is a great honour this 2024, to be part of the FEMRITE Team, launching our plan of putting a roof over FEMRITE, to build a Writing and Wellness Centre.
It is a dream that has come a long way, a dream that FEMRITE needs to now actualise, with your support. In the past, we talked about the centre but kept tucking away the dream because we looked only at the small family of FEMRITE. The dream felt unimaginable for a non-profit organisation whose every coin goes into the implementation of programmes of strengthening writing and reading in Uganda and beyond.
Today, I join the FEMRITE sisterhood to lay bare our dream because we recognise the power of community giving. I invite all our well-wishers to support the climb by making a contribution towards the writing and wellness centre.
Today, I embark on a six-day fundraising journey, a hike of Mount Kilimanjaro from 24th to 29th July 2024. Praying for good health and good weather. As one of the founding members of the organisation, it has been a joy watching the organisation grow from baby steps to adulthood.
On a personal note, I want to recognise friends and supporters who have been very instrumental in encouraging us on this plan. I recognise the main funder of the organisation, Hon. Mary Karooro Okurut. Probably when she was gathering the first women in 1994, she did not realise that the organisation would still be here 30 years later and still relevant.
Our slogan for this fundraiser is that Every Coin Counts. We earn differently, we have different financial obligations and so we can not all give the same. But when we all give, it makes such a big difference.
Today, we embrace the power of community giving and call upon our supporters, our partners, our friends, friends of our friends, to support the cause of building this writing legacy for the country, for the continent, for the world. FEMRITE has an open-door policy that has enabled the organisation to build bridges across countries and across continents. It is our prayer that together, we gather each brick and build the Writing and Wellness centre.
Actualising the centre beyong rented premises will be to strengthen the sustainability base of the organisation, to give it a life beyond the current membership and leadership, so that even the children of our children can find it and do their duty in maintaining it and transforming it to match their times.
There are many challenges we face as older people, as younger, as people. The need for reflection and wellness spaces has never been more crucial than now.
FEEMRITE space is not just a concept. We have witnessed its power. It is a space where we have had cups of coffee and tea together, a space where we have hugged and cried on each other’s shoulders, a space where we have birthed stories and supported one another, a space of truth and reflection.
To support the cause, please send your contributions to +256 772 743943 or Bank Account: 03412110186
THANK YOU
Together, let’s put a roof over FEMRITE
Every coin counts.
info@femrite.org / info.femrite@gmail.com
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