Social Responsibility by Navigator

Navigator's Owners Team Up with SWEDUGA 

The owners of Navigator and the Board have taken the decision to be more active in taking on social responsibility. Read on to hear their story.

It all started in 2020 when the owners were asked to come along to a “charity” trip to Uganda in Africa. It all became very emotional, and their need is large. We visited among a lot of other things a small, very rural, and poor village where an African organization was to start up a school from nursery to 7th grade with 200 pupils.


The school had just started but due to Covid, the Government had temporarily closed it down. A requirement to get the children to come to school is that they are requested by the parents to go and get water for their homes before they can go to school. It is also expected that they should get a morning meal in school, and for some kids this is the only meal of the day.

The small organization that we came with to Uganda is called SWEDUGA (Sweden Uganda Aid) and is focusing on three things – water, health (active and preventive) and education, with the focus on women and children. The immediate decision from us as private individuals was to donate the cost for drilling a well down to 80 meters and getting a solar panel for getting water to the kitchen at the school, but the availability has proven to be much bigger than the need for the school, so some people living close to the school have been allowed to get their water from there also. Some of our friends donated money to build some simple but efficient school buildings.


At that stage Navigator took the decision to go in and support the school financially. There is a small fee for the children to attend the school, but a lot of the families are so poor that they can´t afford to pay anything. We have therefore decided to support the school by paying the salaries to the teachers and other staff. Without this contribution the school would be forced to close, and 200 children be without their school.

We will try to update this page now and then to share with you how the school is developing!