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Donate now. Your financial contributions are what allows us to undertake life changing projects through meaningful partnerships with the women’s beader groups and the communities where we work. Volunteers donate almost all fund-raising and administrative time to the organization. As a result, we can utilize your financial contribution almost entirely for direct program expenses.
Donate now and make an impact with your financial contributions!
Donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent of U.S. law. As one of our long-time supporters said recently, “We know you’re changing lives!” We can do that only with your help which in turn helps expand the women’s and students’ thoughts about what they can achieve in life. We strive to concentrate your donations in the areas where they will have the greatest impact for social change.
Your Donation Makes a Difference!
We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit working in Uganda, so contributions
are tax deductible in the U.S. Your donation today helps women, girls and families in Uganda. It gives hope to their hearts, sparkles to their eyes, and joy to their lives.
We spend at least two months each year in Uganda with our women’s groups and surrounding communities to personally provide oversight on expenditures of project funds. We can see firsthand how powerfully your financial gifts improve their lives and effect social change.
Our August 2023 Priorities Are:
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$2100 to Purchase Additional Desks for the Increased Number of Students
Our 2023 school population increased from 520 to over 700 students. This higher number of students is expected to continue. The PTA constructed a temporary building to house two additional classrooms earlier this year. However, neither classroom has any desks! We badly need to purchase an additional 35 desks for these classrooms.
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Food for our 48 boarding 6th grade students at school
- Help make sure our 48 boarding sixth graders have enough food to eat each term. We’re happy to report that 28 of these sixth graders are girls! In 2022 and 2023, our school food costs have risen by over 40% due to inflation, the war in Ukraine and a difficult crop growing season these past 2 years. School food costs are running $3500 per term. Donations in any amount are welcome!
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Miscellaneous school improvement projects and needs – financial gifts help teachers be committed:
- Teacher latrines, one set of 3 latrines – The community will provides the labor but we need to provide bricks, cement, iron sheets, lumber and nails. Currently 18 teachers are using 1 set of 3 latrines which has been severely flooded and cracked. It is embarrassing. We want to keep our teachers happy and wanting to stay at our school! Estimated cost: $850
- Chain link fencing and labor to install for school boundary on a partial side of the school. We have fenced the roadway side of the school property and are working on fencing a 2nd long side. Estimated cost: $3000 (in addition to $2000 already collected in donations). The government in late 2020 has said that all schools should be fenced. Plus it allows our teachers/students to garden without interference from free running pigs, goats and cattle!
- More powerful solar system to cover the entire school so teachers’ homes and our 3 other school buildings can also have access to solar power for light, security, copier and multiple laptop usage plus in certain classrooms to provide light on cloudy, rainy days. Estimated cost: $8000 total with $2000 of this amount still needed to be raised.
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Donations so we can purchase additional malaria treatment medication as well as malaria test strips.
The heaviest rainy season of the year is begins in September. We expect that this year’s drastic increase in malaria cases at our clinic will continue and result in an unusually high number of malaria patients visiting our clinic and needing medications. Cost: $1000 extra per quarter.
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Help fund home down payments for our Jinja home ownership project – help women move out of the slums.
This will help our Jinja women become homeowners so they can move out of the slums forever and permanently overcome poverty. We have completed the land purchase and made common area improvements such as drilling a well and installing a 2nd access road. We are now ready to begin the home construction phase. Each lady is providing a down payment of $1400 on her home which she has saved from her bead and business earnings. However, we need to obtain donations of $8000 for each lady’s home so that her financed cost portion will remain low. Your donation is needed to help build the first phase of ten homes as part of this life changing project. We would like to start home construction in 2024 if funds are available.
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Ongoing donations
– We’re always looking for donations:
- contributions of $200 per suitcase so we can carry suitcases of supplies with us on our semi-annual trips to Uganda – very important otherwise we would not be able to take these extra free supplies with us! We take only items which cannot be found in Uganda or which would cost much more to buy there.
- dry erase markers – ideally fine tip but either is fine. Dry erase erasers also needed. We save paper and reduce waste by using dry erase learning materials.
- LEGOS for STEM activities at our primary school library
- PUL material (it serves as a waterproof lining) for sanitary pad kits. Check for sales at your local craft/sewing store.
- gallon and quart size Ziploc brand (freezer style) storage bags which we use in sanitary pad kits. We provide these kits to girls in our Girls’ Education Initiative program to keep girls in school
- lightweight suitcases (can be new or used– large size (29″ and 31″) to carry supplies to Uganda