Trying to send money to Uganda
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A couple of years ago I visited Uganda for some projects. I am trying to send some money to a lady I met who looks after orphans. She seems to be having a problem setting up a Paypal account to recieve the money I have tried to send to her email account over Paypal. Does anyone know if this can be done?

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Hi Andy1960,
I have looked into this for you and we do offer PayPal in Uganda however accounts opened in Uganda can only send payments and can not receive funds in to their PayPal account.
I hope this helps
Paula
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I came here today with a similar question. Has the situation changed at all? Is there no way for someone in Uganda to receive money through PayPal? Thank you!

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Hi there Terry-Aimee,
At the moment Ugandan accounts can only send money & not receive funds.
Keep an eye on the website for any changes!
Siobhan
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Hi I am getting really confused here, I am getting different answers to my questions regarding sending money from my Australian paypal account to a childrens orphanage in Uganda. We have just picked a beautiful child of their site to sponsor. I asked them if they accept sponsors from Australia she said yes they have a few from Australia who sponsor our children, all we have to do is click on the link on their site to make a payment or donation each time to their orphanage school. When I clicked on their link it took me straight to the paypal site, to send my money through there, as thats how Australians pay their fees to them by using paypal. Then I contact paypal and they tell me I cannot do this, as they will not recieve their money I have sent them, as they can only send money not recieve it! But this does not make sense, when the orphanage has told me themseves that they recieve payments from Australians using paypal. Paypal should already know this, the lady at the orphanage has proof of this through her sponsorships from Australians. I do hope some can help, all I want to do is to start sending payments to our sponsor child! Thanks
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I think the opharnage has their bank in Europe, US or even Australi, thats why they can recieve our funds. I used to help back in the day by recieving money via paypal then for a small fee I woould pay someone in Uganda. I would then after a ime transfer in bulk o my account there. Im a native of Uganda so..but that was long ime ago before all the big corps went online...No you cannot send by paypal to Uganda they cannot recieve the money unless like I said in the case of the charity they have to have an account outside Uganda....I hope this answered your quesiion.
Ish
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I am also trying to send money to Uganda. It seems that Western Union might be the best option. But the fees are horrible. Please PayPal -- we are out of options. Please enable Ugandans to receive money from worldwide partners.
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I see this is still not an option from paypal. Has anyone found an alternative? I have created a website for a Ugandan orgization and I need to get online donations to their ugandan bank. Since paypal doesn't allow this, which is lame, has anyone found an alternative?

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