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The teachers association to cater for children (TTATCC) was formed in 2006 and fully registered in 2007 as a community based organization in Buwenge town council Jinja district-UGANDA.
The low – income levels in Buwenge Town council have a number of negative consequences in the homes of the registered children. Such as: inadequate basic needs, early marriages, theft, school drop outs, malnutrition, divorce and inaccessibility to medical care.
This project will fund the purchase of 10 pigs at a cost of just $71 per pig. Cost includes initial food and medicine expenses associated with starting a pig raising operation. Once funded, the sale of 20% of the offspring will support the continuing food and medicine needs. The other 80% of the offspring will be given to the needy orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) once the OVC are trained in the care of the pigs. TTATCC and the local community will bear the labor and expense of constructing the housing for the pigs. Completed!
This project will help to create a new house for a family that cannot afford safe housing. Housing is an important need and this group has been involved in this type of work since 1953. Your funds will buy a house! Click on the description to read more about this Christian ministry in Costa Rica. Completed!
This is part one of a project that will supply two goats to 25 guardians (quite often grandmothers and widows) of orphaned and vulnerable children in the Kabondo, Kenya. The goats will help individual households to have a sustainable source of milk and income through goat rearing. Goats are the least expensive livestock to raise locally. When the goats produce offspring, these guardian families will be able to purchase school materials and school uniforms. They will be able to afford to provide basic medical care and food for the orphans under their care in a sustainable manner. Each goat along with veterinary training for the guardians will cost $54. Completed!
The objective of this project is to raise the living standards of rural poor by delivering sustainable health and hygiene benefits through improvements in water supply within schools. ChooseAneed will be partnering with Lifewater Community Church with this project by purchasing the pump for the well. The pump will cost $500 USD.
Kano plains of Kisumu district in the republic of Kenya is one of the poorest regions within the republic of Kenya with a per capita income of US$ 220. As much as 40-60 per cent of the populations are below the poverty level. Because of flat topography of the area it does suffer from perennial floods once it rains on the nearby Nandi hills. The effluents from the sugar factory along the Nandi hills are carried down streams once it floods. This result in incidence of cholera outbreak and water-related diseases, which do contribute significantly to low productivity in the area. Rural productivity is also constrained by the high time cost of collecting water, often more than 4-5 hours per household per day. Completed!
This project has the potential to save lives. Malaria is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children in Ghana. Despite the enormous impact of malaria, prevention efforts in Bibiani District are rudimentary at best. Private individuals do not have the means or the education to protect themselves from malaria. This is compounded by the fact that the government cannot provide the nets or the needed education to the most vulnerable. The provision of insecticide treated bednets with accompanying education is a powerful and proven tool in the fight against malaria. This is a simple intervention that has the potential to drastically reduce the number of children that die from malaria each year in Bibiani District. Completed!
In rural developing regions animals, such as cows, can have a huge impact on a family and a community. Click on this need to read in more detail why this is the case and how meeting this need will help save lives. This is the third phase of the cow project in Uganda and involves funding an additional herd. The donation amount will allow four cows and two bulls to be purchased for a rural community in Uganda. Completed!
Uganda Village Project works in villages in eastern Uganda, networking and building the capacity for increased public health and sanitation through our Healthy Villages program - currently surveying and following 70 villages. The program managers typically rent motorcycle taxis which careen down the dusty roads to these remote, rural locations, dodging chickens, children, and produce trucks (and there are no helmets!). UVP's program design requires close monitoring and networking amongst the villages and health centers, thus they have requested help with purchasing a vehicle which will greatly increase efficiency and safety of travel for all their staff members and volunteers. Completed!
The teachers association to cater for children (TTATCC) was formed in 2006 and fully registered in 2007 as a community based organization in Buwenge town council Jinja district-UGANDA by involving a group of Christian men and women, professional teachers and pastors after a careful assessment of the needs of the children whose parents died of HIV/AIDS or just being poorest of the poor persons in the community. TTATCC is a grassroots community based organization formed as a civil society with a purpose of supporting/caring for vulnerable members within the society, particularly children and caregivers who have either been affected by or infected with HIV/AIDS and could not afford the basics of life.
The chicken raising project will be implemented by TTATCC to:
-Build capacity of orphans in life support
-Provide orphans/vulnerable children with scholastic materials at Light Academy Education study centre.
-Provide orphans with a source of highly nutritional food.
TTATCC's purpose is to develop and support sustainable income generating activities that enable civil society to strengthen community based care mechanisms for children infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS. Completed! Click on this need's title to read more.
The East Africa Law Reports are a set of reference materials that this organization could use to help them in their representation of the poor in Uganda.
Uganda Christian Lawyers Fraternity (UCLF) used the funds to purchase law text books that were most needed in the resource center. The books on the table in the picture are the ones that were purchased. The Library and student's coordinator is the one standing, the lady and the gentleman are some of the students who benefit from this resource center.
The resource center is used by UCFL staff and law students around the city center. The new books in this regard have beefed up their stock with modern reading materials and will contribute to the greater awareness within the Uganda Christian Lawyers Fraternity and outside users. Completed!
The 2007 Uganda Village Project partnered with us a few months ago to provide 'blackboards and desks' for some of the schools they work with. The need was great and the impact can be huge by promoting education and effecting change. See the success stories page to read about the success of the first project and see why we would like to do this at least one more time. Completed! Click on Desks for Education link above for more information.
Uganda Village Project, a close partner of CAN, has provided us with an opportunity to help them provide eye surgery. They have located an eye surgeon who provides his services as a donation through a partnership with another charity. UVP needs to train individuals to screen the local villagers to find and schedule appropriate patients so that the eye surgeon can show up and operate on 20 patients at a time. Completed!
Uganda Village Project, a close partner of CAN, has developed a new partnership with a local cataract surgeon in Uganda who through partnership with another local charity is able to provide free cataract surgeries to patients in need. Completed!
With funds raised by the scholarship team at Engeye and ChooseAneed donors, Susan's scholarship has been funded. Check back soon for a report on her progress. Engeye is sponsoring other children and you can read more here. Engeye Scholarships
Susan Nabukenya is a 14-year-old Ugandan girl who arrived in the US for life-saving plastic surgery at Boston Shriner's Hospital in May 2008. Her course of treatment will keep her in the United States until August. Susan was burned from her chest to her toes when she stepped too close to a cooking fire and her kerosene-stained dress ignited. She has lived with burn contractures and open wounds for four years and was forced to drop out of school. She had lost all hope.
Journey with Susan toward a brighter future. For updates, visit her care team's blog at SusansBlogSpot
Project Completed.Go HERE to read about our recipient.
Through a partnership with the Uganda Village Project we would provide discrete scholarships to children for a University Education. These are in essence ‘full rides’ and would be awarded to promising children who would otherwise be unable to obtain an education. University education is typically a two year degree. Completed!
The Salama Secondary School Water Project provides water through the creation of a new deep water well. The Malaika project is seeking to provide clean water a basic human right and need to impoverished people living in rural Tanzania. This water will not only provide for drinking and basic hygiene, but will make it possible for the entire community to continue building the school even during the dry season. This project provides life sustaining water and will enable the community to realize their dream of building this secondary school. PROJECT REVISED with donor approval and ChooseAneed Board Approval. See details.
This need will help purchase two bicycles for use by local volunteers with the Uganda Village Project, UVP. UVP has been a very close partner and is involved in several projects in Uganda. Transportation costs eat away at the budget and the purchase of two bicycles will reduce the overall cost of transportation this year and allow more work to be done. Help us have a greater impact this year. Completed!
Uganda Village Project and its workers have spent a great deal of time researching clean water solutions since they recognize, as does every health organization in the world, that clean water makes a huge impact in the community. This project would fund a year long program to provide clean water and education to several villages. It has the potential to be sustained by the villages after the initial phase. Funding Completed! This project is ongoing.
This is a combined project that will fund the creation of an administration building for Uganda Village Project, seven new wells, and two scholarships for university students. Four individuals from the Long family will be traveling to Uganda this summer where they will represent ChooseAneed and participate in completing this project that they have personally helped raise the funds for. Completed!
In many, many villages throughout all of India, the people have only filthy, bacteria-laden pond water for their drinking, cooking, bathing. This water is all that is available, so the people have no choice but to use it. We want to provide them with something better, something health and life – giving: fresh, clean well water. Only as funds are available can we provide additional villages with wells so that a thousand or more people can have clean, good water daily from each one. Currently, we are installing wells in Bihar, north India, one of India’s poorest and most backward states. Completed!
This project will fund the development of four wells of various types in the Mubende district of Uganda. This project involves locally run charity and heavily involves the local community in the planning and implementation of the project. In fact, the community also contributes funds to the project. Your donation helps them help themselves. An excellent ChooseAneed type of project. Please consider helping them obtain safe water. Completed!
Open Arms India has partnered with ChooseAneed to help raise funds and build new huts for families who have lost their homes in a fire. Each hut is 360 dollars and there are at least 50 families currently without a home. Help us provide housing - one hut at a time. We CAN make a difference. Completed! Click on project title to see picture of first hut constructed.
Open Arms India has partnered with ChooseAneed to help raise funds and build new huts for families who have lost their homes in a fire. Each hut is 360 dollars and there are at least 50 families currently without a home. Help us provide housing - one hut at a time. We CAN make a difference. Completed! Click on project title to see picture of completed hut number two.
Open Arms operates over nine orphanages in five states in India and they have proposed creating a farm that would help raise food for each home. This would reduce expenses, be a sustainable project, and would allow them to help even more orphans. Here is photo of orphanage boys working in the small garden- which is behind their hospital - in an effort to grow some few vegetables. The boys really love this work and compete to see whose plants get largest and produce most vegetables. We now have a picture of the land that has been purchased! Click on this need's title to view. Completed!
Human trafficking, the forcing of a person into sexual or labor exploitation, is both a human rights violation and one of the fastest growing criminal activities in the world with over four million people disappearing into trafficking every year and 70% of these being trafficked into the sex trade. The physical and emotional pain that victims of sex trafficking endure is unfathomable. This project will fund the healthcare needs of women and children rescued from brothels in India. STOP will work with local hospitals and physicians to provide health care services (including annual physical exams, immunizations, vision and dental check ups, HIV/STD screening, and mental health counseling) for the 50 rescued survivors/vulnerable children in STOP’s AASRAY large extended family home in New Delhi. Completed! Click on this need's title to read more.
We approached UVP about funding a new livestock project but they have identified a recently started Goat project that still requires funding. They have distributed 16 dairy goats to Widows and their children. For 40 dollars per goat you will fund the first two years of vet expenses and help assure the success and reproduction of these animals. At that point the project should be self sustaining from the profits of the dairy and new livestock. Completed! Click on need title for more information.
Susan is here and doing well. Visit the blog to learn more. SusansBlogSpot ChooseAneed.org has partnered with Engeye to help Susan Nabukenya. Susan has had her surgery and is now back in Uganda! Completed!
The Nyamuswa water tank project will provide water, one of the basic human needs and rights, to 9,200 people in a rural area of Tanzania. The project has been planned by the local community and has the support of the local government. This project meets the provision of relief to underprivileged goals of ChooseAneed. Water is lifesaving and is a self defined need of the local community. Completed!
This project if funded would equip the planned lab at Engeye clinic in Uganda with a field microscope and the necessary supplies. The microscope is a necessary and vital tool that would allow health care workers to more accurately diagnose the patients and therefore, more responsibly and sparingly use the medicines they have at their disposal. This would be life saving and life changing as more individuals would receive the life saving medications that they actually need. Completed!
Worms mainly affect the well-being of young children. Because worms contribute to anemia, which is a leading cause of death among people in these areas, de-worming is a simple and effective method in which to increase the chances of survival for young children. By removing one possible cause of a child’s deteriorated health, it gives them a better chance of surviving the other possible causes of death, such as malaria, malnutrition, etc. Children develop worms by walking barefoot in contaminated soils. This project will help by funding the purchase of the de-worming medicine for 500 students and sandals for those without shoes. The sandals will help prevent reinfection. The Ghana Health and Education Initiative has done this before, lets raise the funds to do it again. So cheap, so effective - potentially lifesaving. To learn more, please click on this project. Completed!
This need will support the purchase of 40 desks at a cost of 25 dollars per desk. Each large desk will allow ten students to sit while they learn. Consider buying a desk to help a child learn. Education is a sustainable gift that can help reduce poverty. Completed!
Lydia Bagonza is a teenage child in Uganda and attends the Greenfield Secondary School in Uganda where she is 9th out of 84 students. Lydia suffers from club foot and must use a cane to painfully walk. This project would help fund a surgery to repair Lydia's foot. Funding Complete. Funds Transferred. Lydia has been to Kumi hospital but they do not feel her foot is operable. We are obtaining a second opinion and evaluation to make sure this is truly the case. Unfortunately, a second opinion has confirmed what Kumi was able to tell us. Lydia's foot is not operable. The donors were contacted and ChooseAneed's board in consultation with Uganda Village Project has voted to amend this project and allow the funds raised to be used toward Lydia's continued education. Donor assent was obtained. A post need report will be coming soon and this need will be moved to the success stories.
Through a partnership with the Uganda Village Project we would provide discrete scholarships to children for Secondary Education. These are in essence ‘full rides’ and would be awarded to promising children who would otherwise be unable to obtain an education. Education can make a huge difference in Uganda, it is the difference in being a poor villager working every day to find food to eat and being able to support your entire family through work you can obtain because of your education. The Uganda Village Project which is well established both here in the states and on the ground in Uganda would primarily be responsible for awarding and administering the scholarship. They would draft the requirements for awarding the scholarship and the requirements for a student to continue to receive the scholarship. They would also provide us with annual reports on all the children involved in the project. The cost is 600 dollars per full ride. Completed!
This project helps to fund the creation of ChooseAneed legally in the US such that we can obtain a bank account in our name, maintain business expenses, and provide tax receipts. Completed!
This project seeks to fund the purchase of a set of much needed law books for a Christian non-profit organization that helps the poor in Uganda who cannot afford legal aid. Completed!
Protective eye-wear is an important piece of equipment that anyone who may come in contact with bodily fluids should wear. Currently doctors in Kumi often have to operate without this standard protection. Completed!
Dental equipment is in short supply and the dentist at Kumi Hospital requested several pieces of basic equipment that would help him do his job.
Completed!
In rural developing regions animals, such as cows, can have a huge impact on a family and a community. Click on this need to read in more detail why this is the case and how meeting this need will help save lives. This is the first part of the cow project and involves funding the first half of the herd. The donation amount will allow four cows and two bulls to be purchased for a rural community, Agaria, in Uganda. Completed!
Each cow is about 200 US dollars.In rural developing regions animals, such as cows, can have a huge impact on a family and a community. Click on this need to read in more detail why this is the case and how meeting this need will help save lives. This is the second part of the cow project and involves funding the second half of the herd. The donation amount will allow four cows and two bulls to be purchased for a rural community, Agaria, in Uganda. When this need is met the herd will number twelve and the village will then manage the herd without any more investments of capital from us! The first phase was successful and several cows have been purchased. 8 Cows and 2 Bulls were purchased at a local cow market. Completed!
The Uganda Village Project has identified four sites that would be suitable for wells. They have analyzed the locations, made certain water is there and made certain the wells would be centrally located and benefit many people. Visit this site to view the shallow well process: http://picasaweb.google.com/benjaminkrause/KimantoShallowWell?authkey=as72eKBsy9U'
Uganda Village Project has submitted videos of some completed needs. View this short video to see what your donation has meant. We CAN and we ARE making a difference. Thank you!
Busiringe well video one
After watching the video, use your back button to come back. Completed!
The Uganda Village Project has identified four sites that would be suitable for wells. They have analyzed the locations, made certain water is there and made certain the wells would be centrally located and benefit many people.
View this short video to see what your donation has meant. We CAN and we ARE making a difference. Thank you!
Busiringe well video two
After watching this video, use your back button to come back. Completed!
The Uganda Village Project has identified four sites that would be suitable for wells. They have analyzed the locations, made certain water is there and made certain the wells would be centrally located and benefit many people.
View this short video to see what your donation has meant. We CAN and we ARE making a difference. Thank you!
Busanda well
After watching this video, use your back button to come back. Completed!
The Uganda Village Project has identified four sites that would be suitable for wells. They have analyzed the locations, made certain water is there and made certain the wells would be centrally located and benefit many people.
Uganda Village Project has submitted these videos of the well project. View these short videos to see what your donation has meant. We CAN and we ARE making a difference. Thank you!
Nsinze well video oneNsinze well video twoNsinze well video three
After watching each video, use your back button to come back so you can see the next video. Completed!
This is well number five of four planned wells that Uganda Village Project was working on. Through the generosity of ChooseAneed donors and the gift of service and leadership by Uganda Village Project volunteers and some very hard labor by the local community they have been able to build five wells for the price of four.
Uganda Village Project has submitted videos of some completed well projects. View this short video to see what your donation has meant. We CAN and we ARE making a difference. Thank you!
Budazzi, Kalalu well
After watching this video, use your back button to come back. Completed!
Construction complete! This well was built at a village called
Bumanha and commissioned on December 22, 2008.
Uganda Village Project has identified severals areas in need of clean water wells. With funding from ChooseAneed donors, they have already created five wells with the funding we gave them for four wells. This project is to raise funds for the sixth well. Completed!
Uganda Village Project has identified several areas in need of clean water wells. With funding from ChooseAneed donors, they have already created five wells with the funding we gave them for four wells. This project is to raise funds for the seventh well. Completed! This well was constructed in a village called Nawankwale.
Four members of the Long family are going on a mission trip in the summer of 2008. They have done the hard work of raising the money and making the personal sacrifices required to both go on the trip and fund the needs they will be working on while in Uganda. This project is what we call a BONUS WELL. Our hope is that you will show your support for their mission trip by dropping your funds in this bonus well. Our goal is to raise 800 dollars by the date of their trip and you will help them fund an eighth well! This is in addition to the six wells that donors like you helped fund and build last year. Completed! This well was constructed at a village called Nawantaale.
UVP’s program manager, Kristen, had the initial meeting with the community of Kabira on February 13th, 2009. Kabira village members formed a Water User Committee to oversee the building of the well and chose the site for digging on February 16th. Click on this project's title to view pictures of the construction progress. The well should be ready for commissioning and use soon! Completed!
Uganda Village Project has identified severals areas in need of clean water wells. With funding from ChooseAneed donors, they have already created nine wells with the funding we have provided. This project raised funds for a tenth well constructed at the village Namadope, Uganda. Please visit previous well projects where you can see actual videos of the wells that have been created through donors generosity and caring. Completed!
This project would provide a one-time grant to fund the purchase of locally created exam tables for a new health clinic. Please click on this project to read more. Look for new and exciting projects with Engeye soon. Completed!
Project Partners: Alpha Childcare Uganda (local NGO – Non Governmental Organization)
In Uganda and many African countries malaria, and more commonly AIDS, creates orphans. Often these orphans are very young and yet they become the heads of their households. Can you imagine being responsible for a toddler and school age child when you are in the sixth or seventh grade, not even a teenager yet yourself? These orphans are very resourceful and they make do because they have to. ACCOD is a local NGO making an effort to help these children and one way in which they do so is by supplying some basic needs such as blankets, water jugs, and cooking pots. These are cheap by our standards, but are much too expensive for these orphans to consider purchasing. This project, each time we fund it, would supply 10 families with these basic supplies. It would be administered by ACCOD in Uganda. Completed!
The schools are making do with very poor blackboards that they use every day, as paper is not readily available and is much more precious than it is here in the states. These blackboards need to be replaced and it is a need the Uganda Village Project has identified during their groundwork with the schools. However, they have not had the time, energy, or money to invest in this project. They have also identified a shortage of desks in many of these village schools. Imagine having to share one of those small desks we all used in elementary school with several other children, taking turns to work on the desk instead of the floor. Update - The UVP summer team has performed a needs assessment and surveyed about 29 schools, interviewed them and researched costs. It looks as though 15-20 three seater desks will be built for one school from the funds donated so far. UVP is currently exploring exact costs and we are working with them to consider placing this need on CAN again in hopes of funding some more desks. Completed!
A microfinance project in rural Tanzania that provides access to small loans for people living in remote areas of western Tanzania. Rural areas are often left without access to many services. Most microfinance programs throughout Africa are centered in urban centers. This project also enables women to pursue their own personal goals and dreams by enabling them to establish their own businesses and better take care of their families. Below is a video provided to us by Malaika of women who have been helped by ChooseAneed's completion of this need. These women have borrowed small amounts of money from the funds we sent and are now operating business and slowly paying the money back which will then be used to create more loans. Completed!
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Last updated: 8/7/2010