A Ugandan orphanage with a link to Caldicot School is £1,000 better off thanks to Chepstow Rotary Club.

Abundant Life Living Hope International Missions (ALLHIM) helps the orphans, widows, poor and needy in the communities in and around the remote village of Mukoko in the Bukulula Kalunga district.

Gareth Whitcombe, deputy headteacher of Caldicot School, has been actively supporting the ALLHIM charity and specifically their Mother Janet orphanage in Mukoko.

Thanks to support from ALLHIM, this facility has been developed from a rough timber structure with a banana leaf roof into a proper brick building where the education standards are now amongst the highest in the area.

The aim of ALLHIM is to develop the facility so that it may teach up to 700 pupils to secondary education level.

Chepstow Rotary Club is a strong supporter of community events both in the UK and overseas and fully appreciates the very good work undertaken by ALLHIM.

In recognition of this work, club president Christopher Wilson presented Mr Whitcombe with a cheque for £1,000 towards the cost of the new developments at the Mother Janet orphanage.