Question: How much help do you think £500 would offer the children in Uganda?

Nazim Bharmal answered on 15 Mar 2012:

It won’t help many children directly, but the plan goes like this: £500 will help equip a school laboratory in Uganda with basic physics experiments and we can show the teachers how to look after the equipment and even build new ones.

So it is what people call ‘seedcorn’ money; it will be used to start providing equipment and then this will (hopefully) encourage Ugandans to spend more of their own money on providing equipment at more schools when they see how useful it is.

Because the students at their schools have so little equipment, often just a blackboard and a few books but no physics experiments, a little will go a long way. Plus I would spend my own money to fly to Kampala and back, and explain to the students how I was chosen by other students just like them to help their education.