British Pilot
Robert Vallier has completed the inaugural UNITY FLIGHT OF SOUTH AFRICA.

From 1-15 October he flew a single engine Cessna 182 aircraft - nicknamed Ufosa 1 - around South Africa and visited the first 15 of the 30 communities all over the country.  As a result, the  Foundation has been able to identify the vital details of the needs of those communities and associated budgets for its work.  Unity Flight #2 is set for later in 2008.

Now established on 3 continents - the USA, the UK and South Africa - and with the backing of the Government through the Minister of Education (Western Cape) Cameron Dugmore and of UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Gavin Rajah, Robert's Ufosa Foundation is seeking to reach out and aid 30 communities throughout South Africa, uniting them in a far-reaching 5-year aid and development programme in Education, Family Wellbeing and Health.  The Ufosa Foundation wants to focus global attention on the plight of people all over South Africa, not just on isolated areas or causes, and seeks to raise funds from the international community along the way.

The work of the Ufosa Foundation is in:

• Education
  The 30 schools in the programme are to get a 1,000 book library made up of books donated from schools linked with them in the UK and in the USA as part of our Donate A Book campaign, joining schools, schoolchildren and teachers around the globe; computers and software; and a new Teacher funded annually by the Foundation, allowing the expansion of each of the schools and their student numbers.  

• Family Wellbeing
  Ufosa is watching... WATCHing out for Women And The CHildren.  Rape, incest and domestic violence are at epidemic levels in South Africa, and Ufosa is assisting by building 30 relief abuse HIV/Aids centres for Women And The CHildren at our 30 communities across the Nation over the next 5 years.  The Centres will offer accommodation, counselling, medical care, school overflow facilities, even legal advice.  Read more...

• Health
  Linking with 30 Hospitals and Hospices, Ufosa will assist in caring for the sick and the elderly by seeking to provide needed equipment or a new construction.  Even those who are reaching the end of their lives, be they young children or the elderly, desperately need help since the standard of care available as they pass on is often minimal.

The route of the UNITY FLIGHTS and the 30 communities of the Ufosa programme, are set out on the map below.  Those that have been visited in Unity Flight #1 are listed in BLUE in the scroll box (top right column); Unity Flight #2 is set for 2008, and the 15 communites are shown in RED in the scroll box.

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From Cape Town and Port Elizabeth in the south, Durban and Richards Bay in the east, Messina and Polokwane in the north and Springbok and Alexander Bay in the west, and including many smaller points inland such as Halfweg, Vryburg and Klerksdorp as well as the major cities, Robert is visiting key areas all over the Nation in his UNITY FLIGHT and the Foundation is inviting individual and corporate backing for Ufosa, both within South Africa and internationally.

The first UNITY FLIGHT was being followed by 2 national Radio Stations in South Africa.  TV footage was also provided by way of the on-board camera crew and Robert’s regular News Reports, and Robert also made available reports and articles for the Press from each of the 30 communities.  The Ufosa pop song Fly Today, recorded by school children from Cape Town and written by UK media team Lester and David Barnes, is being released with Flight #2, later in 2008.  The CD album also contains other South African themes and famous inspirational songs.

Donations can be made online outright.  Buying our merchandise - great presents for Birthdays! - will also assist our work.

Media Liaison is through London PR firm Media Intelligence Partners.

Background to the Project - Why 30?
The Soweto Riots of June 1976 marked the beginning of the end of Apartheid...

UK Charity to bring funding from UK and Europe; Links with Schools
Ufosa(UK) has been set up to bring in international funds from the UK and Europe in support of the project...

Ufosa Charity now established in the USA to bring funds and School ties
Ufosa(USA) has now been formed in the USA...