up to now we haven´t received an answer to my letter from 8th of October, so I want to ask if you have received it. If not here is a second issue. 

On behalf of the non-governmental organisation "Jugendhilfe Ostaftika" based in Germany, cooperating with "Bicycle Sponsorship Project & Workshop" close to Jinja for seven years now, I want to give you some information about our achievements and some general information about the bicycle as a key to improvement of the condition of the people living in rural areas. 
 We have managed to finance more than 3.000 bicycles up to now for people mainly living in rural areas and especially for women, who have to carry the main burden of development. 
With these bicycles used as an appropriate mode of transport avoiding dependency on fuel, the productivity of the people can be increased around 12 times! They can carry four times more on the bike and can go three times faster. 
 We have set up a workshop for assemling the bikes, a store, an office plus FABIO (First African Bicycle Information Office) with a small library focusing on the bicycle as means of transport recently. Up to now, the charitable project is based in a childen´s home called St. Moses in Bukaya/Njeru. (Maybe you can remember a few words of a member of our organisation who has introduced the project to you on 24th of January 1996 as you paid a visit to the Source of the Nile with Hon. President Roman Herzog.) 
 In the past years whenever we bought bikes from the importers or from the factory in Kampala, we had to pay the full price for it. In our point of view, this can´t be right as we are using the bikes for a charitable purpose! 
 So we are asking  for tax-exemption for the bicycles bought for to be given out by our partner-project "Bicycle Sponsorship Project & Workshop". 
We all have to imagine, that there are lower taxes on imported cars and other motorised vehicles. These vehicles are in most cases out of reach for the rural poor as they are not able to pay the fares. 
 I want to close with this letter with a question asking for the general direction Uganda is going to on the transport-sector: Wouldn´t it be necessary to promote the advantages of bikes compared to cars for the national economy and the environment? 
I would be grateful, if you could send some data about the fuel-imports of Uganda in the recent years, about the bicycle taxation and about the role of the bicycle for the national economy. 
I would be even more grateful, if you could support our projects of FABIO and the bicycle-sponsorship with a tax-exemption or funds. The national-economy will reward it! For further details contact Mr. Kisamadu. 
 

Yours sincerely 
 

Emmeram Raßhofer