The London Xavier Ball is an annual black tie fundraiser supporting Xavier Project, who believe that we all have the right to equal opportunities and protection. Formerly known as the London Bongo Ball, it's a fun and engaging night all aimed at raising unrestricted funding for the non profit, Xavier Project, whose website you can visit here:
www.xavierproject.org
In Kenya and Uganda refugees d
o not have equal opportunities and we use education to change this. At Xavier Project we use pioneering education as the means to achieve our vision. When he first volunteered in Kampala, Ed Page, founder of Xavier Project, witnessed the struggle of Congolese refugees to integrate into the community and escape horrific living conditions. At the time he was a student, and he returned to St Andrews to raise money for their cause. His fundraising efforts led to the creation of The Bongo Ball. The ball was a huge success in St Andrews and subsequently it has migrated south of the border and has been experiencing big city living in London. Xavier Project has two departments each with their own strategic objective designed to meet this vision. The Education Department aims to increase access to relevant and good formal education delivered in a safe environment for refugee children. The ‘Tamuka’ Department aims to make vocational and life-long learning available to all refugees even in emergency situations, primarily through the use of ICT. The Education Department of Xavier Project aims to increase access to relevant and good formal education delivered in a safe environment for refugee children. We increase access to education for refugee children in our Education department by sponsoring 450 children through school, providing extra-curricular courses and camps, visiting schools with mobile libraries and teacher training programmes, running activities to promote the education of refugee girls, and providing refugees with ways of enhancing their learning from home and outside of school through libraries and mobile phone learning opportunities. Through the Tamuka Department we have opened learning hubs with computers, satellite TV and printed media where refugees can enjoy learning for free via all sorts of media. We run ICT courses, talks and social events in these hubs and monthly newsletter is written by refugees for refugees and distributed from these hubs and all over Kampala and Nairobi. Learning material from our courses and newsletters are promoted through www.tamuka.org.
