ALTHOUGH they are thousands of miles apart, a village in South Kilkenny and an African village are developing close links. Kilmacow and the village of Tiira in Uganda are becoming closely intertwined thanks to the efforts of Harry and Ursula Knox. Read the article from the 5th March 2019 Munster Express Article Part 1 Munster Express Article Part 2
This visit had a different focus than previous visits. We are finished expanding as we have reached the maximum number of 220 children that we can realistically manage. However, we will always be flexible enough to take on board a mother who seeks support and who we believe is in a genuinely desperate situation. On this visit we would be helping a selection of the children by teaching them Phonics. This would help the children who would range from 10… Read More »Account of our most recent trip to Tiira Village, Busia, in Eastern Uganda from January 1st to January 27th 2019
Our plan for this visit was to speak to parents of all of the 60 families that we support, as a group, and distribute flyers in their own local language of various documents that had been interpreted for us previously at such group meetings. The reason for this was that everyone would now have a document in their own language of what we hoped to achieve and what their role and responsibility as well as their children’s would be. We… Read More »Details of Opportunity Knox 4th visit to Tiira Village in Eastern Uganda (May 18th to June 4th 2018)
Here is a summary of what the public donations were spent on during the past financial year followed by the the 3 months up to June 30th 2018. Spending of Donations
On landing at Entebbe Airport we were picked up by Wilson Bulwa, a previous employee of World Vision who we had asked to take us in a hired car to our guesthouse in Busia Town, the nearest town to Tiira Village. We had engaged Wilson to translate what we had to say to the parents and children on the next day. We arrived at the guest house at midnight on Friday. With John Kennedy, we had drawn up a list… Read More »Account of our trip to Tiira Village in Eastern Uganda from Sept. 29th to Oct. 10th 2017
I am delighted to present to you the first Annual Report of Opportunity Knox Charity. The idea for the Charity was sparked from Ursula and I being part of a group of Donors to World Vision Ireland who visited Eastern Uganda in November 2015. Ursula and I were two of the 22 people who took the trip. We were gobsmacked with the extent of the poverty we saw there and most markedly by the plight of the rural dwellers who… Read More »Annual Report 2017
Mary and Richard Walsh, Upper Street, Kilmacow, hosted the Official Launch of Opportunity Knox Charity in the Kilmacow Community Centre on Monday April 10th 2017 at 8.00 p.m. A large audience of over 60 people attended the event which was opened by Mary Walsh who spoke about the birth of the new Charity which had been the brain child of Harry and Ursula Knox. She introduced the other Directors of the Charity, Maria O Mahony and John Carey. She then called… Read More »Official Launch of Opportunity Knox Charity Monday April 10th 2017
Opportunity Knox has been featured in a great Munster Express article this week. Munster Express Article 01 Munster Express Article 02
Nelson Mandela said ‘Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world’ and education is at the heart of all the work we do at Opportunity Knox. Education, both formal and informal, can give you the knowledge, skills and confidence to build a better future. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world Read more about education in uganda.
During November last (2015) Ursula and I went on a trip to Uganda as part of a trip organised by World Vision for those who were sponsoring children with World Vision. We were given an opportunity to visit a young man we have sponsored for around 10 years as well as to visit farms, schools, savings clubs and medical facilities which formed part of their Area Development Plans in two regions in Uganda. The poverty in the rural areas was… Read More »When opportunity knocks: The story so far