Social action in Rwanda and Sierra Leone
Wednesday 19th January saw the launch of Project Umubano 2011, the Conservative Party’s social action project in Rwanda and Sierra Leone. A packed Jubilee Room in the House of Commons heard from...
View ArticleCollecting football shirts for Project Umubano
Over the past three years I have been collecting football shirts within my constituency of Rugby to be sent over to Rwanda as part of Project Umubano a Conservative Party social action project. In the...
View ArticleWelcome to Project Umubano
We’re at an exciting stage in preparation for this year’s Project Umubano, the Conservative Party’s social action project in Rwanda and Sierra Leone. I’d like to take the opportunity to explain a bit...
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Giving time to help make the Big Society
Most of us get involved in social action activities at some point in our lives and I have never met anyone who fails to find it rewarding. This ‘social capital’ that underpinned society before the war...
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Remembering Christopher Shale
Those of us who have visited Rwanda with the Conservatives’ Project Umubano are preparing for this year’s trip with the usual excitement but unusually heavy hearts. It was with such sadness that we...
View ArticleProject Umubano 2011 has launched
Over 120 volunteers have joined the Conservatives’ project to teach skills in Africa. Volunteers with the party’s Project Umubano have travelled to Rwanda and Sierra Leone to work in key areas of...
View ArticleProject Umubano kicks off
It has been a very busy start all round for the Project Umubano team in Sierra Leone. After a long flight we arrived on Monday and crossed the water from the airport at Lungi into Freetown. The journey...
View ArticleStreet Children welcome Umubano
The Street Child of Sierra Leone Children’s Centre sits at the edge of the town of Makeni. Travelling north from the capital Freetown, the beauty of the landscape contrasts harshly with the chaotic...
View ArticleProject Umubano enters its sixth year
The Party is now recruiting volunteers for Project Umubano 2012 in Rwanda and Sierra Leone. Now in its sixth year, Project Umubano is a truly remarkable expression of the Conservative Party’s core...
View ArticleValuing Volunteers
Social Action is just one of the ways in which members choose to get involved and volunteer within the Conservative Party. Why? Because it’s at the heart of their local communities and it’s about...
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