U.S. Ambassador’s Fund Supports Uganda’s Historic Building Conservation Trust (10/02/06)

U.S. Ambassador to Uganda Steven A. Browning and Historic Building Conservation Trust Program Officer Robert Tumwesigye have jointly signed a grant agreement worth
US$23, 238 (Ushs 41,828,400) for a project to research, document and eventually disseminate information about historic buildings in Uganda.  Edward Katama, the HBCT Board Secretary, attended the signing ceremony at the U.S. Embassy in Kampala,
on September 25, 2006. 

Project funding for the Trust’s survey of historic buildings in Uganda was made available through the U.S. Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation.  The survey is expected to be completed in a 10-month period.

The Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation was established in 2001 by the United States Congress to help eligible less-developed countries preserve their cultural heritage and to demonstrate the respect of the American people for other cultures.  In 2006, 87 projects in 76 countries are recipients of U.S. Cultural Preservation grants. 

In 2005, the Ambassador’s Fund provided a $25,000 grant to the Uganda Museum for an archival project to review, clean, catalog and appropriately store the Museum’s valuable ethnographic collection, estimated at over 30,000 objects in total.

For further information, please contact HBCT Program Officer Robert Tumwesigye at 0782-393-912 or tumwesigyeus@yahoo.com; or U.S. Embassy Public Affairs Officer Alyson Grunder at 259-791, ext. 6310 or grunderal@state.gov .

To learn more about the Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation, visit:
http://exchanges.state.gove/culprop/afcp/info.htm

For more information about the Embassy grants programs, visit:
http://kampala.usembassy.gov/grants_programs.html