13.08.2010SALEM is now close to being able to support the people of Southern Sudan. A needs assessment has been undertaken and our project-design is almost complete. The remaining challenge is to find donors and sponsors who can enable the development of this deserving project.

02.07.2010What joy! The German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development has awarded SALEM a grant of 35,000 Euros towards the cost of establishing a tree nursery in Togo. This will cover three quarters of the total costs, leaving a balance of 12,000 Euro for us to find. Alone, an impossible task, but together, we can do it!

11.06.201012 May 2010 saw the inauguration of the SALEM-Uganda School of Nursing following the completion of the first phase of construction. Many sponsors from home and abroad made the journey to the celebrations and in doing so marked the beginning of the first year of training for the initial intake of 40 students.

03.05.2010Not far away from the SALEM village in Mbale, only 20 km by air, a terrible tragedy happened on the evening of 1st March 2010 in the Mount Elgon region in the East of Uganda: a massive landslide of mud, soil and rocks came crashing down and buried the whole village underneath. The force took everything in its path and covered it with a layer of mud some 8 metres high. That evening, 350 people lost their lives, 100 of them were children.

21.12.2009Gottfried Johannes Müller – The Founder of SALEM –
10.04.1914 – 26.09.2009

08.12.2009Representatives of SALEM-Scotland made the trip to SALEM-Uganda this September. They were excited to see the project and the work funded by donations sent via SALEM-Scotland in the last few years.

08.12.2009Thom Hartmann´s eulogy to Gottfried Müller for his funeral in SALEM-Stadtsteinach.

08.12.2009What do good marks have to do with clean school uniforms? Not much, one would think. A stain on the shirt may have no influence on a child’s performance in algebra, but in the Mindo village Catholic school in Ecuador, the nuns in charge keep a careful eye on the scrupulous cleanliness of the pupils’ clothes.

08.12.2009In July 2009 the Project Co-ordinator of SALEM-Uganda, Denis Medeyi, alerted SALEM International Headquarters in Stadtsteinach that food shortages are leaving many people hungry in the Teso region of Eastern Uganda.

08.12.2009Many people in Southern Sudan are living in poverty. That is why SALEM is going to send two co-workers to Sudan to find out what projects might help in the rebuilding of this region and improve the living conditions of people there. This may mean help for children through the provision of education, out-patient services for those who are ill, preventive health care and any other measures that would improve the situation there.