A new year for East African Playgrounds!

There has been a significant lack of posts on this blog for a while, so I am here to remedy that!

In the winter, although there are no volunteers to help, EAP continue building playgrounds in Uganda! Here are some pictures of the latest playgrounds to be built by the building team :)

Playground at Amazima Ministries - the biggest playground every built by EAP!

Helicopter monkey bars! 

This table has a chess board design so the kids can play on it as well, how cool is that?

Here's a collage of EAP's work at Help International :)

And at St. Francis!

And check out this video to see all the work EAP has done in 2014! I am so proud that so many of those pictures are from the playground I helped to build in Kyabirwa (the thumbnail is one of them). Looking forward to another amazing year, changing children's lives one playground at a time!

If you are interested in donating to make more fantastic playgrounds like these happen, please visit my Virgin Money Giving page.

Thank you very much for your time!

Silvia

Video about Uganda

Here is a short video I made about my experience in Uganda :)

Unfortunately, due to copyright issues I can't post it on here directly, but follow this link to see it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQKsgMJ_1ko&list=UUp5EbPsmLW1GD5DgB4QT1Bg

More posts to come!

Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoyed it :)

Silvia

Thank you for your donation!

To everyone who donated,

I just wanted to write this post to thank all of you for your donations to this amazing cause. Building a playground with East African Playgrounds has definitely been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. 

The school I was based at was called Kyabirwa Pre-school and was run by a charity called Soft Power Education, which runs schools and health clinics in the area. We also built a very small playground in another of their pre-schools, just a short drive from us (not that much fun on Ugandan roads!). There were 90 kids in the pre-school and an SEN block, which made the project even more special because some of the items in the playground were especially designed for SEN kids.

Here are some pictures of the school and competed playgrounds:

Disabled swing

Cave (ant hill)

The first wobble-board EAP has ever seen!

Alice showing off the caterpillar

The school where we worked and stayed

Complex (my personal favourite)

Cars

Recliners

Sensory wall

Shop and cafe`

Sensory wall from the otehr side

Swings

Crocodile seesaw

Snake seesaw

Elephants

Boda boda (Ugandan motorbikes)

Hippo

As you can see, the playground turned out great! And it would not have been possible without your help, so thank you from all the children of Kyabirwa!

I will be going to Uganda again next summer as a leader, so if you'd like to donate to my next adventure or volunteer for East African Playgrounds, please get in touch :) I'll make more posts talking about my amazing time in Uganda and will update you on my upcoming project as well.

Silvia

BAKE SALE :D

Here are some pictures of mine and Sarah's bake sale on campus from Thursday! We managed to raise an amazing £51.73 all together!! Thank you to everyone who bought a cupcake or donated their spare change :) We will definitely be doing one again soon!

And a special thank you to our housemate Chris, who helped us bake and decorate!
Click here for my Virgin Money Giving page and here for my friend Sarah's blog :)

Silvia

February update!

Hi everyone :) 

Thank you so much to everyone who has donated in the last two months! I am now at 470, but have actually got some money that I collected in my bucket that needs to be added to that. Now, let's have a look at that to do list I wrote a while back :)

1. Get a permit for bucketing in York in January - That didn't happen :( but I am hoping we will get a permit in a couple of weeks!

2. Organize a bake sale for next term (already have loads of boxes and things like that) - DONE

3. Think about busking - still thinking about it...

4. Try and sell some CDs and songs online (if interested stay tuned!) - still working on that one, and maybe thinking of doing a small concert :)

5. Sell some gingerbread men bags before Christmas (next week) - DONE and it went pretty well :) thanks to all those who bought some!

6. Get in touch with my Grandmother about asking for donations at her church - this also hasn't happened yet :(

7. Send private emails/messages to people I know might want to donate - DONE :)

8. Make plans to fundraise while I'm in Italy (busking) - I don't think this is ever going to happen actually, Italy is just not much of a charity giving kind of place

9. Make JAM with my buddy Sarah! (IT'S JAM FOR AFRICA) - still a work in progress!

10. Make a video for my Youtube channel promoting my fundraising page - DONE! here's the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNiktdx_xBw&list=UUp5EbPsmLW1GD5DgB4QT1Bg&feature=c4-overview

11. Update my page and come up with an original idea (easier said than done!) - still haven't updated, but I think I have a good idea :)

So, all in all, I have done some things and am still planning others. Better than I expected really! Now I just need to concentrate on that bucketing, making some jam, and doing something involving singing :) 

As always, this is my donations page: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=SilviaHarvey

Thank youuu :)
Silvia

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

Buon Natale!

Joyeux Noel!

Feliz Navidad!

Froehliche Weihnachten!

Krismasi Njema!

圣诞快乐!


!عيد ميلاد مجيد

С Рождеством!

And in the Christmas spirit, please click here to donate to East African Playgrounds :) any donation, big or small, will truly make a difference! Thanks :)

Silvia

P4A 2013 - East African Playgrounds VIDEO

Hi!

I finally made a video about the Uganda project! It's part of the Project for Awesome, which is an awesome (sorry for the repetition, but that's what it is!) thing that brothers Hank and John Green put together to raise thousands for ten charities which get voted for :) So please go vote for East African Playgrounds and DFTBA :)

Silvia