This is not my usual post: I’m recommending a donation to a community group in Uganda. I posted about this last year, but without details about how to assist them financially. To cut to the chase here, these are the bank details:
Bank Name: DFCU Bank Tororo Branch
Organization Name : Associated Reporters For Development, Organisation & Cooperation (ARDOC)
Account Number : 01261118264604
When I tried a test donation, my banking application required a personal name, so I used “Keko Mary Stella”, the manager of ARDOC—pictured below.
ARDOC stands for “Associated Reporters for Development organization and Cooperation”, and is a women-led community based organization in the Tororo district of Uganda. It engages rural women and youth in tree planting program aiming at transforming their lives and mitigating climatic change in the Tororo district. They also train rural women and youth in vocational skills training in tailoring, hair dressing, bakery, modern farming and mechanics, so as to equip them with modern skills and knowledge that can guarantee them a improved livelihood.
I received an email from Keko last year, and was about to delete it as suspected spam until I saw the final line:
We have been watching your analysis on CGTN TV from Uganda.
OK, this was potentially genuine: I am regularly interviewed on the China Global Television Network (versus almost never on mainstream Western media, but that’s another story), so there was some substance here.
Keko has since copied me numerous photos of ARDOC’s work, and I now accept that this is a genuine community organisation, working directly with disadvantaged people in Uganda. So I’m going to make a small donation ($100), and I’d be pleased if my supporters also chipped in. In the chaotic world we live in today, it’s extremely hard for a small organisation like ARDOC to get attention and support from outside, and I admire Keko’s persistence and energy in enlisting my assistance here.
Some of ARDOC’s training classes.
This is a house ARDOC built for a previously homeless family.
