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Economic Development Grants
Initiated: 2018
Investment: $12,848 grant
Details: A nearly 20-acre farming cooperative that sells its produce at highly competitive rates to Jerodi Trading Co., a village-owned processing facility that packages and sells finished flours to area markets and grocers.
Status: Running successfully with minimal interruption due to COVID
Initiated: 2019
Investment: $17,966 grant
Details: A cooperative of 27 women that organize, plan, and execute small, medium, and large-scale events that include authentic Ugandan dishes and entertainment such as music and dancing, when appropriate.
Status: Event-planning slowly coming back on track due to COVID restrictions
Initiated: 2020
Investment: $16,488 initial grant
Details: A large cooperative containing 4 groups of women that will be raising both chickens and pigs to sell at market. Their initial proposal includes collecting manure to sell to Buyenje as fertilizer to increase yields.
Status: Chicken coups under construction, but delayed due to COVID challenges
Current Project:
Moniko Village, Uganda
Initiated: 2021
Investment: TBD
Details: The women of Moniko Village are working together with our partners at Lugacraft Uganda to outline their proposed community business. Early contenders include: raising pigs, raising goats, creating hand-woven crafts, soap-making, and catering.
Status: Delayed due to COVID challenges
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Student Scholarship & Education Grants
Scholarship Recipients: 242
Scholarship Applicants (seeking scholarship): 218
Our Primary School scholarship program enrolls children ages 3-15 from our Partner Communities, including 3 years of pre-school and all 7 levels of Primary education. Scholarships include school fees, uniform fees, and all necessary supplies, so the student and their family are liable for $0 out of pocket.
Scholarship Recipients: 25
Scholarship Applicants (seeking scholarship): 9
Our Secondary School scholarship program enrolls young adults ages 13-19 from our Partner Communities, including all 6 levels of Secondary education. Scholarships include school fees, uniform fees, and all necessary supplies, so the student and their family are liable for $0 out of pocket.
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Disaster Relief & Temporary Emergency Aid
Year: 2020
Amount: $53,553 granted to 182 families
Details: The global pandemic unveiled unprecedented challenges for individuals and organizations alike. Beginning in March, a government-mandated quarantine restricted the ability of rural Ugandans to move about and sell goods and services, which severely and negatively impacted their ability to earn steady income.
In conversation with our Field Partners, Lugacraft Uganda, we were able to coordinate monthly relief packages in the form of unrestricted cash grants – money that was used to address families’ most pressing needs, including both fresh and non-perishable goods, as well as sanitation products like soap. Relief budgets were proposed and ratified by community leadership, allowing them to dictate where relief was best applied.
Year: 2018
Amount: $1,300 granted to 26 families
Details: In April 2018, just months after the launch of our first project in Buyenje Village, the area received a massive amount of rain that washed away many of the new crops that were planted.
We were able to immediately intervene to provide direct monetary relief that was used to purchase food and new seeds to begin replanting. By giving relief directly to families, they were able to use it to purchase local supplies at local rates, and without delay.
In partnership with Lugacraft, we underwrote locally-led workshops that taught modern effective drainage techniques, delivered by local experts from an agrarian-focused university, to help mitigate the risk of a similar disaster having the same effect in the future.