Thanks for helping Ugandan school

I would like to publicly thank a few area merchants for their unselfish support in helping my wife and me in raising money for the School for Physically Handicapped & Disabled Children in Kampala, Uganda.

We travel to Africa every summer to work with the street children, the orphans and the needy of Uganda. One project we have taken on is to help fund a school for children with physical, as well as mental, disabilities.

If you are born in Uganda with these afflictions, you are often locked up in a closet, or best case scenario, put into a backroom with the chickens and the dogs. Parents are humiliated to have a child like this, so they usually hide them away. This special school that we support takes in these children and gives them a loving home. The work they do is nothing short of incredible.

We are selling African jewelry to raise funds for this school. Four area businesses have allowed us to put up jewelry displays in their shops and asked for nothing in return. This allows us to donate 100 percent of all sales to the school. These shop owners are Les and Barb Bevil of the 4 Bean Coffeehouse in Batavia, Sue Heidelberg of Sue's Family Hair Care in Batavia, Neil and Lesley Edmondson of Wool & Company in Geneva, and Andrea Bauer of Top Of The Line Beauty Salon in Geneva.

These unselfish merchants have gone above and beyond to help in this worthy cause. Not everyone is out for the almighty buck and these wonderful people have proven that.

Ron and Becky Hubbard

Batavia