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Dream Auction for the Walper School in Uganda

It was a  grey February early morning when I sat at my workdesk in The Record’s newsroom and examined my job sheet: telephone Michael von Teichman, new proprietor of the Walper Terrace Hotel, one of our region’s most famous businesses. It seems that Michael was wanting to not just make his enterprise prosperous, but also use his situation being a business proprietor to provide aid in a developing region. He’d selected the Waterloo-based GIVE International, a charity performing good work in Eastern Uganda.

Michael calculated that if he contributed $1 per hotel guest throughout twelve months that will amount to  $20,000, the specific total needed to construct a brand new school in Nawantumbi, a remote and formerly unsupported area in the eastern area of the country.

I talked with Michael and GIVE International founder Ryan Snyder and while my fingers tapped out the tale I recognised that building a school in Uganda would become my endeavor too. I could sign on to be a volunteer to assist build up the school and raise funds for everything from desks to pens, just about all of which are lacking in the children’s existing mud-walled school. GIVE International is a smaller sized group with only two Canadian workers and nine Ugandans who consistently co-ordinate GIVE’s ventures in their own country together with organizing volunteers. I shall end up one of those willing volunteers on Sept. 28 for a two week stay.The main undertaking immediately is to collect dollars and my company, The Waterloo Region Record, put on a silent auction for my cause, producing $600. But I required something even larger, some thing that might pull in at the least $10,000. My colleague Karen Dowell found the thought of a Dream Auction, delivering services people just can’t obtain in a store. 

With an approach now in place, it was time to start enrolling assistance and requesting donations of things and services. Though the listing isn’t yet full, it is impressive so far: a quarter page ad in The Record, valued at above $5,000. We will have one of a kind art, a song created for the winning bidder by singer/songwriter Sue B. Proud, a 60 minutes cruise in a 1962 Amphicar on Lake Conestoga. There are tickets to plays and concerts, gift baskets, belly dancing lessons and even a personal acting class with professional actor, Terry Barna. Watch this space as we add even more articles to the list.

The event, dubbed A Dream For Uganda, happens Saturday, June 11, 7:30 p.m. at THEMUSEUM, down-town Kitchener and will come with food, cash bar, silent auction and music by the Celtic band, The Shenanigans combined with full admission to THEMUSEUM’s exhibits. 

Every penny collected will go towards the creating and equipping of the Walper School, and I will be there to tell you about the progress first hand.

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