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Hands4Uganda Frequently Asked Questions

Please contact us for other questions about Hands4Uganda or Rock of Ages Community School. We are grateful for your interest!
Hands4Uganda is solely a volunteer based organization. Without any paid employees we are able to direct 90% of all donations to support Rock of Ages Community School with the remaining 10% used for administrative costs of H4U.
When you sponsor a child, you are providing them with an education. While each sponsorship contribution does not go directly to a specific child, when a student is sponsored, their seat at ROA is reserved. 

Sponsorship dollars are used to cover the school's overhead (teacher salaries, building rent, school lunches, etc.). In addition, sponsorship dollars are used when student medical needs arise. 

As a student at ROA, your sponsored child has unlimited access to clean water as well as meals each school day.
  1.  Sign-up for recurring payments using a credit card. Click the subscribe button on the Sponsor a Child Page and follow the directions. You can create a personal account and decide when to make payments. This is our recommended and preferred way of payment; however, PayPal is also available through recurring payments.

  2.  You may also send a check made out to Hands4Uganda to the following address. Please include the name(s) of your sponsored children.
HANDS4UGANDA, INC.
P. O. Box 4703
POCATELLO, ID, 83205
PayPal is introducing a new and improved Profile to some customers. Until all customers use the new Profile, there are two sets of instructions on how to do this. Please follow the instructions that match what you see on the site.
  1.  Log in to your PayPal account.
  2.  Click Profile near the top of the page.
  3.  Click My Pre-approved Payments in the Financial Information column. (Don’t see this step? Follow the instructions below.)
  4.  Click View the Agreement next to the merchant agreement you want to cancel.
  5.  Click Cancel or Cancel automatic billing and follow the instructions.


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  1.  Log in to your PayPal account.
  2.  Click Profile near the top of the page.
  3.  Click My Money.
  4.  Click Update in the My pre-approved payments section.
  5.  Click Cancel or Cancel automatic billing and follow the instructions.
When you pay for a Premium Sponsorship, the additional $20 is used to purchase bulk food for your sponsored child's family. 

Each month we send a list of all the names of each child to receive extra food to our ROA counterparts. They then purchase the bulk foods locally. Parents are notified when the extra food is ready for distribution and must come to ROA to sign that they received it. While food items provided may change depending on the season, staples like cooking oil, rice, beans, cornflour, and sugar are generally given.
Hands4Uganda is solely a volunteer based organization. Without any paid employees we are able to direct 90% of all donations to support Rock of Ages Community School with the remaining 10% used for administrative costs of H4U.
Hands4Uganda is solely a volunteer based organization. Without any paid employees we are able to direct 90% of all donations to support Rock of Ages Community School with the remaining 10% used for administrative costs of H4U.
We do not recommend sending anything to your sponsored child via mail as we have yet to have success with envelopes or packages making it to their final Ugandan destination. 

H4U tries to ensure that at least one biennial mission team goes to Uganda, and we are more than happy to carry something special for your child. However, due to space and weight restrictions, we may not be able to take a large package for your child. Instead, we generally ask that you write a letter and include anything you will fit within that envelope.

If you would like to send an email or scanned letter to your student, you can email our sponsorship coordinator at tamera@hands4uganda.org and she will ensure your communication is passed along to your sponsored child.
Yes! We try to organize a H4U mission team biannually. Please complete this form to discuss a visit to Uganda and your sponsored child.
A life lived in poverty can be chaotic. The birth of a child may not be an occasion for joy but rather one of anxiety because of the extra mouth to feed. Parents are not obligated to register the birth with village officials, so many times, kids come to school, and no one knows when they were born. ROA makes the best attempt to place the child in the class closest to their observed age.
It is common to have older children (say ten years old) placed in lower grades, such as Primary 1. Until coming to ROA, many students do not have the opportunity to attend school, putting them behind the general age group for each grade level. Some children may begin their education at the proper age but may be forced to drop out due to the cost or because the parent needed extra help at home. This puts them behind when/if they can come to ROA.
There are many reasons why a student may attend one year and be gone the next. Students leave Rock of Ages mainly because their family has moved to another area. Families often move back to their home village to receive additional support from extended family or for other opportunities. 

We are always sad to see children go as we no longer know if they will receive an education. When the school director, Betty, hears of a family considering a move, she often visits them and tries to help them stay for the children's education. Unfortunately we are not often provided with detailed reasons as to why a student's family may have relocated to another area but will do our best to provide you with the information we have.
We notify sponsors when we are sure a student has left. Some families let ROA know ahead of time that their student will no longer be attending. More often than not, children simply do not show up to school at the beginning of the new year. 

ROA administrators do their best to understand the situation of each child and their family. Unfortunately, sometimes the only information they find is from neighbors who explain the family has moved.

When one child leaves, ROA can accept another child in their seat. Along with a notification of your child's absence, we will also give you the option to sponsor another child in need. 

We understand that sponsors feel connected to their children and are often saddened to hear their child has left ROA, but we also pray that you will continue to support the children at ROA through sponsorship.
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