Uganda Promotion Tools

Posted on 02.05.08 in General and there are 0 comments.

(Note: This page is under construction. Please let me know if any of these links do not work or if any of the other bloggers have similar tools that are not listed here.)

For the first time, Compassion is taking 15 Christian bloggers to see the ministry’s work firsthand. The bloggers depart for Uganda on February 10th and arrive back in the United States on February 18th.

THE TOOLS

Here are the tools you can use to promote the trip.
1. Interesting Facts About Uganda

2. Add Shaun Grove’s Shlog.com Widget

3. Add Anne Jackson’s Flowerdust.net Banner

4. Add Los Whittaker’s RagamuffinSoul.com Banner

5. Link Directly to Compassion

Facts About Uganda

- 97% of households use firewood

- 92% do not have electricity

- 48% of households have a radio

- 49% rely on word of mouth as main source of information

- 17% have no access to toilet facilities

- 56% are children below 18 years

- 12% live in urban areas

- Gender ratio is 95 males to 100 females

- Average household size is 4.7 persons

- One in every 25 persons has a disability

- Literacy rate 68%

- 61% have access to safe drinking water

- 77% engage in agriculture

- 1.8 million orphans have lost at least one parent

- 75% use kerosene candles (tadooba) as main source of light

- 4.5% have a TV set

- 77.4% still live on rammed earth floors though a majority have iron roofs

(ht: spence smith)

LINK TO SPONSOR CHILDREN FROM UGANDA

<a href="http://www.compassion.com/sponsor_a_child/default.htm?referer=80315"><img src="http://flowerdust.net/images/ugandalarge.jpg" alt="SPONSOR A CHILD FROM UGANDA" /></a>

<a href="http://www.compassion.com/sponsor_a_child/default.htm?referer=80315"><img src="http://flowerdust.net/images/ugandasmall.jpg" alt="SPONSOR A CHILD FROM UGANDA" /></a>

SHLOG - SHAUN GROVES

(NOTE: Click the arrow on the bottom right of the widget to get the code you need to post it on your blog.)

THE RAGAMUFFIN SOUL - LOS WHITTAKER

<a href="http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/?cat=52"><img src="http://ragamuffinsoul.com/images/ragamuffinugandalarge.jpg" alt="Ragamuffin Soul in Uganda" /></a>

<a href="http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/?cat=52"><img src="http://ragamuffinsoul.com/images/ragamuffinugandasmall.jpg" alt="Ragamuffin Soul in Uganda" /></a>

FLOWER DUST - ANNE JACKSON

<a href="http://www.flowerdust.net/?cat=73"><img src="http://flowerdust.net/images/flowerdustlarge.jpg" alt="BLOGGING LIVE FROM UGANDA" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flowerdust.net/?cat=73"><img src="http://flowerdust.net/images/flowerdustsmall.jpg" alt="BLOGGING LIVE FROM UGANDA" /></a>