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June 28, 2008 Newsletter
• NEWS: New York Times multimedia on Ronald
• NEWS: CFTF student accepted by elite academy

New York Times .
The New York Times featured Okello Ronald in a multimedia presentation Sunday June 29th.

Look at New York Times multimedia presentation

Here it is on the section front:
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African Leadership Academy.
Concern for the Future high school student Ntege Paul has been accepted by the prestigious African Leadership Academy. This elite boarding school, located in Johannesburg, South Africa, accepted only 100 students from all of Africa. Paul received a full scholarship (worth over $20,000) from the school. He starts this September.

"Ntege is a disciplined boy with an excellent record. I am not surprised that he passed the African Leadership academy interviews", Nakiggude Proscovia, an English teacher at Paul's former school, Uganda Martyr's Senior Secondary School -Naumgongo, said amidst cheers from other teachers.

His excited Mother, Topista added, "Paul is a focused boy both in his studies and while doing chores at home."

"Believing in my self in my daily life and keeping focused while at school yields good success," Ntege says, "I am happy and I owe my success to Concern for the Future and Stephen Shames, who took me to Concern for the Future. I had a problem with school fees.   At one time I thought I would never make it, because when I was 11-years-old, I had to work in a stone quarry to provide food for my family. But with God's grace, all is possible."

"There's no short cut to success. Success comes through hard work and trusting in God," says Monica Nankoma, Director of Concern for the Future, "Paul exhibits such traits. I knew he would not disappoint us."

We are proud of Paul. His success shows what can be achieved when deserving youngsters are given the chance to become leaders by studying at the best schools. That is what our LEAD Uganda educational leadership program does.

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LEAD Uganda
Assisting Uganda Children

LEAD Uganda is an educational leadership program that locates forgotten children with innate talents and molds them into leaders.

LEAD Uganda is a partnership of the Stephen Shames Foundation in the United States and Concern for the Future, an indigenous Ugandan leadership program.

The Stephen Shames Foundation raises money and awareness. Concern for the Future runs all aspects of the LEAD Uganda program. The CFTF board and staff, all native Ugandans, select and nurture our young scholars.

LEAD Uganda finds bright, motivated AIDS orphans, child soldiers, children in refugee camps, and other vulnerable youth in Uganda who want to go to college but can't because of poverty, AIDS, and war. LEAD Uganda allows them to gain the world-class 21st-century skills necessary to lead their country into the future.

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The Stephen Shames Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit.
Donations are tax deductible.

Photography except as noted
© 2008, Stephen Shames / Polaris Images    

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