Charity Auction for the Kabaka Foundation
13/12/2024 10:00 - 16:00
The Kabaka Foundation is a charity that Jessica Wall, our Director & Auctioneer feels very close to, having helped work on a project in Kampala, Uganda in 2012.
What you can do to help:
We are welcoming entries for the charity auction, for which all the proceeds of sale will be donated to the Kabaka Foundation, items can be from any collecting field, and do not necessarily have to be antique!
So, why not have a rummage in your attic, jewellery box, garden sheds and drawers you have not been in for a long time and find something to donate to this wonderful cause!
Items can be posted to us, marked as FAO the Kabaka Foundation to Stamford Auction Rooms, Unit 7A&B Meadow View, Uffington Road, Stamford, PE9 2EX
The charity auction will be aired live online, for people to watch across the world, and bidding will be available if you register with us.
Jessica Wall's involvement:
Jessica was providing help in Uganda for another charity with Dr Mohammed Kibirige in 2012, which concerntrated on services for orphans and children with HIV and AIDS, assisting with services to prevent transmission of HIV from mothers to the unborn babies. More recently he has brought the Kabaka Foundation to her attention. Her memories of this experience run deeply, and the wonderful people she met during this time have not been forgotten. This is why she has chosen this charity to spearhead.
Dr Mohammed Kibirige:
Dr Kibirige is a retired consultant Paediatrician. He graduated in Uganda and practised in Nairobi for two years before emigrating to the United Kingdom in 1978 and he has spent his working life in the National Health Service, caring for children in the UK, as well as his continuing charity work in Uganda.
His attraction to the Kabaka Foundation was the shared goals of Education and Health care for women and children, and its ongoing commitment to educating children. From personal experience, he knows that he would never have achieved his goals without enlightenment and education, which allows children to thrive and which is vital to a young person leading a happy and successful life.
Dr Kibirige says 'education and enlightenment are two aspects that we can pass onto future generation, good health is a critical component for them to support themselves, and this is what the foundation is creating'.
Dr Mohammed Kibirige
Details of the Kabaka Foundation:
The plight of the peoplefollowing the turbulance in Uganda during the 1980s, especially in the rural areas and particularly women and children was, in many aspects, appalling.
The social economic situation coupled with environmental deterioration prompted the Kabaka to conceive the idea of the KABAKA FOUNDATION. This was with clear understanding that great as the efforts of the government were in addressing these problems, there was a concrete need for supplementary support and concerted action in order to have an impact.
Objectives of the Kabaka Foundation:
- Relief of poverty, sickness and distress and improvement in living conditions of children, women, the disadvantaged, and the disabled.
- The protection and preservation of health with much emphasis on primary health care and the AIDS epidemic.
- The advancement of learning through formal and informal education, including research into culture and related activities.
- Conservation of wildlife and the environment incorporating relative biological research
web site: www.kf.or.ug
Facebook: @kabakafoundation Twitter: @kabakafound