Pictures from the 2010 Scholars' Day.

This year's annual Scholars' Day was special because in addition to including two more schools, we were also honored by the presence of the Bromberg family, who took time off their vacation in Kenya to spend a day with the kids.

Here are some photos from the event. I am also going to clean up and post a video on youtube because that is the only way to bring alive the carnival atmosphere that prevailed on that day. Wanja and Alan Bromberg are also working on putting their thoughts about the events into writing for us to get a first hand account of this hugely successful event.

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Our Philosopy

We will give a hand up, not a handout.

WGF's approach to promoting self-reliance is three pronged:

Infrastructure
By investing in infrastructure, such as the foot bridge project in Mugumo, we provide people with the fundamental tools for development. We anticipate that much of our initial activities will revolve around addressing infrastructural requirements since not much else can be done where there are no roads and bridges.


Wealth generation
Professor Yunus Mohammad of Bangladesh, has been very successful in creating wealth amongst the poor by extending small loans to them through his Micro -financing Grameen Foundation. We will partner with financial experts to identify which economic ventures could best serve the people.

Education
Especially for the young people so as to broaden their minds and make them imagine a world beyond their limiting circumstances and to let them know that they have the power to reach out for it. Hope and ambition are rarely present in the minds of the destitute.

We aim to inspire the young to dream. We will do so by contracting services of reputable motivational speakers, screening educational films, providing reading material, facilitating educational trips and exchange scholarship.

We cannot honestly claim to be addressing the problem of poverty if we do not teach future leaders that only their mental resourcefulness and industry can solve the problems of their country.