Cup of Uji

Help Keep Children In School With Just One Cup of Uji
2022-09-16 08:00 - 2022-09-28 17:00 (Europe/Moscow) | Nairobi, Kenya
As he celebrates his 31st birthday this month, Francis Amonde is using the occasion to improve his school feeding program Cup of Uji. This is a personal initiative with which Francis provides underprivileged school children with a cup of porridge daily to meet their nutritional needs. This is a huge undertaking for an individual and he has only been able to go so far. As he clocks 31 years, he is appealing to Kenyans to donate Ksh.31/- to enable him to cover even more children.
To read more, visit the following link https://www.femmehub.com/2022/09/16/help-keep-children-in-school-with-just-one-cup-of-uji/

International Day of Charity: Cup of Uji
2022-09-05 07:00 - 17:00 UTC
Every day, students go to school on an empty stomach and are expected to fully participate in class and extracurricular activities and perform well.
Francis Otieno decided to do something about it. In 2011, he visited his late mother, a public primary school teacher at Nyatwere Primary School in Oyugis, Homa Bay County. It is here that he learned that some children arrived at school not having had breakfast or even dinner the previous night. Many of them were orphans while some lived with their grandparents, who are too weak to work.
To read more, visit the following link https://www.herbusiness.co.ke/international-day-of-charity-cup-of-uji/

Food for thought: Cup of Uji keeping pupils in school
2021-05-15 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Moscow)
The initiative is giving breakfast and lunch every ay to 5,295 pupils at six schools Kenya.
It also provides sanitary pads to girls and boxers to boys and mentorship programmes. It also provides bursaries, depends entirely on donations. Covid has reduced food.
Sylvia Kanaiza sat pensively at the far end of a sofa in her grandmother’s living room.
Though she performed to her expectations in the KCPE exam and scored 297 marks, she wishes she could go back to school. But she can’t concentrate on an empty stomach.
At school, the 15-year-old said, breakfast and lunch are guaranteed every day, including Saturdays, unlike at home.
“Since I woke up six hours ago, I have had nothing to eat. The choice was between sugarless black tea or nothing, but I see no difference,” Sylvia said.
At Kawangware Primary School where Sylvia was a pupil, all learners would be given a cup of uji in the morning before classes began. For lunch, they had rice and beans, at no cost.
Judith Javagara said her 12-year-old son is never late for school anymore and doesn’t need to be told to hurry up.
To read more, visit the following link https://www.the-star.co.ke/counties/nairobi/2021-05-06-food-for-thought-cup-of-uji-keeping-pupils-in-school/

27-Year-Old Ensures Pupils Look Forward To School With A Cup Of Porridge
2019-05-19 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Moscow)
NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 19 – In Balozi Academy located deep in the slums of Kawangware, the pupils have every reason to smile.
These children always look forward to coming to school every morning as they are assured of a cup of porridge. We meet Francis Amonde, the 27-year-old man behind those smiles and the founder of Cup of Uji Initiative, a programme he started back in 2011 while he was still in university. Amonde supplies flour for the preparation of porridge in various schools across the country, his target being schools located in low-income areas where most children go to school on empty stomachs.
To read more, visit the following link https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2019/03/27-year-old-ensures-pupils-look-forward-to-school-with-a-cup-of-porridge/

Cup of uji keeps learners in school
2018-12-13 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Moscow)
Millions of children under five years suffer from acute malnutrition due to poor feeding habits arising from lack of enough nutritious food, says the 2018 Global Health Report. Africa is one of the two continents that bear the greatest share of all forms of malnutrition. Francis Amonde, 27, did not know this when he started his Cup of Uji initiative. He was 21 years then, a student with no source of income.
To read more, visit the following link https://nation.africa/kenya/life-and-style/mynetwork/cup-of-uji-keeps-learners-in-school-118134
