*uganda.txt* For Vim version 6.0av. Last change: 2001 Sep 03 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar *uganda* *Uganda* *copying* *copyright* SUMMARY Vim is Charityware. You can use and copy it as much as you like, but you are encouraged to make a donation to orphans in Uganda. See |iccf| below. DETAILS There are no restrictions on distributing an unmodified copy of Vim. Parts of Vim may also be distributed, but this text must always be included. You are allowed to include executables that you made from the unmodified Vim sources, your own usage examples and Vim scripts. If you distribute a modified version of Vim, you are encouraged to send the maintainer a copy, including the source code. Or make it available to the maintainer through ftp; let him know where it can be found. If the number of changes is small (e.g., a modified Makefile) e-mailing the diffs will do. When the maintainer asks for it (in any way) you must make your changes, including source code, available to him. The e-mail address to be used is The maintainer reserves the right to include any changes in the official version of Vim. This is negotiable. You are not allowed to distribute a modified version of Vim when you are not willing to make the source code available to the maintainer. The current maintainer is Bram Moolenaar . If this changes, it will be announced in appropriate places (most likely www.vim.org and comp.editors). When it is completely impossible to contact the maintainer, the obligation to send him modified source code ceases. It is not allowed to remove these restrictions from the distribution of the Vim sources or parts of it. These restrictions may also be used for previous Vim releases instead of the text that was included with it. The Open Publication License applies to the Vim documentation, see |manual-copyright|. *iccf* *ICCF* If you are happy with Vim, please express that by reading the rest of this file. You can also have a look here (these are mirrors): http://www.vim.org/iccf/ http://iccf-holland.org/ *kcc* Kibaale Children's Centre (KCC) is located in Kibaale, a small town in the south of Uganda, near Tanzania, in East Africa. The area is known as Rakai District. The population is mostly farmers. Although people are poor, there is enough food. But this district is suffering from AIDS more than any other part of the world. Some say that it started there. Estimations are that 10 to 30% of the Ugandans are infected with HIV. Because parents die, there are many orphans. In this district about 60.000 children have lost one or both parents, out of a population of 350.000. And this is still continuing. The children need a lot of help. The KCC is working hard to provide the needy with food, medical care and education. Food and medical care to keep them healthy now, and education so that they can take care of themselves in the future. KCC works on a Christian base, but help is given to children of any religion. The key to solving the problems in this area is education. This has been neglected in the past years with president Idi Amin and the following civil wars. Now that the government is stable again, the children and parents have to learn how to take care of themselves and how to avoid infections. There is also help for people who are ill and hungry, but the primary goal is to prevent people from getting ill and to teach them how to grow healthy food. Most of the orphans are living in an extended family. An uncle or older sister is taking care of them. Because these families are big and the income (if any) is low, a child is lucky if it gets healthy food. Clothes, medical care and schooling is beyond its reach. To help these needy children, a sponsorship program was put into place. A child can be financially adopted. For a few dollars a month KCC sees to it that the child gets indispensable items, is healthy, goes to school and KCC takes care of anything else that needs to be done for the child and the family that supports it. Besides helping the child directly, the environment where the child grows up needs to be improved. KCC helps schools to improve their teaching methods. There is a demonstration school at the centre and teacher trainings are given. Health workers are being trained, hygiene education is carried out and households are stimulated to build a proper latrine. I helped setting up a production site for cement slabs. These are used to build a good latrine. They are sold below cost price. There is a small clinic at the project, which provides children and their family with medical help. When needed, transport to a hospital is offered. Immunization programs are carried out and help is provided when an epidemic is breaking out (measles and cholera have been a problem). Summer 1994 to summer 1995 I spent a whole year at the centre, working as a volunteer. I have helped to expand the centre and worked in the area of water and sanitation. I learned that the help that the KCC provides really helps. Now that I'm back in Holland, I would like to continue supporting KCC. To do this I'm raising funds and organizing the sponsorship program. Please consider one of these possibilities: 1. Sponsor a child: $15 a month. (Holland: fl 27,50) 2. Sponsor a child and the improvement of its environment: $25 a month (Holland: fl 45) 3. Sponsor the health team: Any amount a month or quarter 4. A one-time donation Compared with other organizations that do child sponsorship the amounts are very low. This is because the money goes directly to the centre. Less than 5% is used for administration. This is possible because this is a small organization that works with volunteers. If you would like to sponsor a child, you should have the intention to do this for at least one year. How do you know that the money will be spent right? First of all you have my personal guarantee as the author of Vim. I trust the people that are working at the centre, I know them personally. Further more, the centre is co-sponsored and inspected by World Vision, Save the Children Fund and International Child Care Fund. The centre is visited at least once a year to check the progress (at our own cost). I have visited the centre myself in 1996, 1998 and 2000. If you have any further questions, send me e-mail: . The address of the centre is: Kibaale Childrens Centre p.o. box 1658 Masaka, Uganda, East Africa Sending money: USA and Canada: Contact Kibaale Children's Fund (KCF) in Surrey, Canada. They take care of the Canadian sponsors for the children in Kibaale. You can send them a one time donation directly. Please send me a note so that know what has been donated because of Vim. Ask KCF for information about sponsorship. Kibaale Children's Fund c/o Pacific Academy 10238-168 Street Surrey, B.C. V4N 1Z4 Canada Phone: 604-581-5353 Holland: Transfer to the account of "Stichting ICCF Holland" in Venlo. This will allow for tax deduction (if you live in Holland)! Postbank, nr. 4548774 World: Use a postal money order. That should be possible from any country, mostly from the post office. Use this name (which is in my passport): "Abraham Moolenaar". Use Euro for the currency if possible. Europe: To avoid banking costs the best thing is to send me a Eurocheque, written out to "Bram Moolenaar" in Dutch Guilders (DFL). Send it to the address below. NOTE: Eurocheques cannot be used after December 2001. Any other method should work. Ask for information about sponsorship. Credit Card: You can use PayPal to send money with a Credit card. This is the most widely used Internet based payment system. It's really simple to use. Use this link to find more info: https://www.paypal.com/affil/pal=Bram%40moolenaar.net The e-mail address for sending the money to is: Bram@iccf-holland.org Unfortunately, the extra cost is a bit high. The other methods are preferred. Others: Transfer to one of these accounts if possible: Postbank, account 4548774 Swift code: INGB NL 2A IBAN: NL47 PSTB 0004 5487 74 under the name "stichting ICCF Holland", Venlo If that doesn't work: Rabobank Venlo, account 3765.05.117 Swift code: RABO NL 2U under the name "Bram Moolenaar", Venlo Otherwise, send a cheque in US dollars to the above address. Minimal amount: $70 (my bank does not accept smaller amounts for foreign cheques, sorry) Address to send cheques to: stichting ICCF Holland Bram Moolenaar Clematisstraat 30 5925 BE Venlo The Netherlands vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: