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One evening in February 2008, Leo Stollwitzer and Ernst Steinicke, two academics from Austria, rested at the famous Speke Restaurant in downtown Kampala to go over their intense experiences in Uganda during their university research project, when a well-dressed young man introduced himself to them and handed them a dossier-like pack of shoddy copies. “All I ask you gentlemen is to read over this,” the young Ugandan man said. They were quite skeptical at first as they had been warned before of so-called “donor charming scams.” Nevertheless, they went over the dossier, which turned out to be a well thought through project proposal for a small street children center in Kampala named “Save Street Children Uganda/SASCU”. Here’s when something clicked inside Leo and Ernst as they had the same thought. “We’ll be damned if we can’t help with this.”

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