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Where is RYDA?
- 8 miles from Kampala off Kampala-Mityana Road, near Buloba High School & Teachers' College
- Latitude: 0° 19’ 27.68" North
Longitude: 32° 27’ 57.70" East
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RYDA Gift Certificates
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Your Transfer to RYDA
On April 29th St. Margaret's transferred $2568.75 to RYDA.
When the funds arrived, Director Geoffrey was in bad health due to diabetes complications, so it wasn't until May 14 that he wrote to "applaud our donors for their continued support" which arrived as just over $US1500 and converted to 5,095,000 Ugandan shillings.
Sadly, the delay was also affected by the death of a RYDA student in early May. We haven't been told the circumstances, but your team can't remember this ever happening before. It must have been distressing for all the students and staff. The boy was buried at his ancestral home in Mpigi.
The $2568.75 was made up of:
- $500 from a consistent generous St. Margaret's donor.
- $200 from a regular St. John's donor.
- $765 from Ron Seccull's can and bottle collecting in Yarrawonga.
- $452 from the RYDA collection box available at the church door every Sunday.
The balance was from so many others giving what they can when they can. Thank you all from the St. Margaret's team for your consistent and generous donations.
Ron Seccull's Contribution
Ron's bottle and can collecting work began in December 2020 when he was 78 years old. But he has done more than that to support RYDA. For years before and since this venture began, he, and wife Faye, have been giving Christmas Gift Certificates to their grandchildren. And all along Ron has been retelling the RYDA success story to an uncountable number of people.
Ron and Faye recently moved back to the city to live in a retirement village. Ron isn't sure if he will able to start up a bottle run in this new situation. But if Ron never packs another bottle or can in his life, by our calculations and including his most recent donation, in the past four and a half years Ron has raised $12,435
... 10 cents at a time.
Ron, your entrepreneurship, enthusiasm, hard work, dedication and faith are a blessing to RYDA and an inspiration to others. God be with you wherever life leads you from here.
Two Iolanthe Concerts
Fairy Iolanthe married a mortal, a capital crime in fairyland. The Fairy Queen commuted her sentence to exile, provided she left her husband forever. She obeyed, but left a child, Strephon, who grows up as a shepherd. Twenty-five years later, half human, half fairy Strephon has fallen in love with shepherdess Phyliss whose guardian is the Lord Chancellor.
Say no more. The stage is set for a witty script, magical, merry melodies and astounding costumes. Two Singularity concerts to choose from. See you there.
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