CUS supporters,
You may have noticed a lack of updates on the blog recently, and for those of you who sponsor, no invoices for you to make your monthly donation. We have been facing an issue with our bank account. CUS is not a registered charity- we were simply a group of people wishing to help a friend and a school in need. The process to become a registered charity is very lengthy and costly. It has come to our attention lately that legally we are not allowed to be accepting funds in this manner (child sponsorship) unless we are registered. Paypal froze our account and thus made it impossible to send out invoices or collect donations.
Please note that the majority of donated funds have been sent to Uganda, as we had been making monthly donations. A small amount of the most recent month's donations are frozen in the account, but will be sent as soon as we can work it out with paypal.
We took so long to make this update because we were in discussion with Hellen about how to best go about this and get around this issue. For the meantime, the sponsorship program is going to be cancelled. We apologize for this and thank you for your past commitment to CUS. At this point we are determining the best way to move forward with our relationship with CUS.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Kate at cuschool@live.ca
Thank you,
the CUS team
