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1 Uganda Cow Project - Third Phase 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!	Amount to fund: $2,250 100% Complete ($2,250) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
2 UVP - Vehicle 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!	Amount to fund: $4,000 100% Complete ($4,000) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
3 Chicken Raising Project to Support Orphans and Vulnerable Children 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.	Amount to fund: $450 100% Complete ($450) Admin costs: $25 100% Complete
4 East African Law Reports - UCLF 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!	Amount to fund: $1,100 100% Complete ($1,100) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
5 Desks for Education 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.	Amount to fund: $1,000 100% Complete ($1,020) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
6 UVP Eye Surgeon Project 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!	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete ($500) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
7 UVP Eye Surgeon Generator 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!	Amount to fund: $300 100% Complete ($315) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
8 Susan Education Scholarship 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	Amount to fund: $1,850 100% Complete ($1,850) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
9 University Scholarships for Ugandan Children 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!	Amount to fund: $1,200 100% Complete ($1,250) Admin costs: $150 100% Complete
10 Salema School Deep Water Well - Tanzania REVISED 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.	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete ($500) Admin costs: $1 100% Complete
11 UVP - Bicycles for Village Health 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!	Amount to fund: $150 100% Complete ($170) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
12 Clean Water Solution Grant 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.	Amount to fund: $2,500 100% Complete ($2,520) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
13 2008 Uganda Combined Project 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!	Amount to fund: $15,000 100% Complete ($15,475) Admin costs: $25 100% Complete
14 Open Arms India Well Project 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!	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete ($500) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
15 Water Wells RCHF Local Project 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!	Amount to fund: $2,500 100% Complete ($2,500) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
16 Open Arms India - Huts - Buy a house! 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.	Amount to fund: $360 100% Complete ($360) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
17 Open Arms India - Help build Hut Number Two! 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.	Amount to fund: $360 100% Complete ($360) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
18 Open Arms India - Farmland 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!	Amount to fund: $7,000 100% Complete ($7,000) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
19 STOP - Stop Trafficking and Oppression of children and Women 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.	Amount to fund: $5,000 100% Complete ($5,000) Admin costs: $1 100% Complete
20 UVP - Goats for the Widows - Follow Up Care 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.	Amount to fund: $640 100% Complete ($640) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
21 Partnership with Engeye - Surgery for Susan 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!	Amount to fund: $1 100% Complete ($1) Admin costs: $1 100% Complete
22 Malaika Water Tank Project 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!	Amount to fund: $440 100% Complete ($440) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
23 Engeye Microscope Project 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!	Amount to fund: $985 100% Complete ($985) Admin costs: $1 100% Complete
24 GHEI Deworming and Sandals Project 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!	Amount to fund: $750 100% Complete ($750) Admin costs: $1 100% Complete
25 CAPECAM Desks for Children 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!	Amount to fund: $1,000 100% Complete ($1,000) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
26 Lydia Foot Surgery - Education 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.	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete ($520) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
27 Scholarship for Education 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!	Amount to fund: $600 100% Complete ($600) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
28 Articles Of Incorporation and 501(c)(3) Status 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!	Amount to fund: $3,217 100% Complete ($3,217) Admin costs: $1 100% Complete
29 Statutory Instruments of Uganda - UCLF 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!	Amount to fund: $1,000 100% Complete ($1,000) Admin costs: $30 100% Complete
30 Kumi Hospital Website - www.kumihospital.org Develop and create a website for the Kumi Hospital in Uganda. Completed!	Amount to fund: $650 100% Complete ($650) Admin costs: $25 100% Complete
31 Operating room Eyewear and Equipment - Kumi Hospital 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!	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete ($500) Admin costs: $1 100% Complete
32 Dental Forceps - Kumi 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!	Amount to fund: $200 100% Complete ($200) Admin costs: $25 100% Complete
33 Uganda Cow Project - Part One of Two 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!	Amount to fund: $2,250 100% Complete ($2,250) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
34 Uganda Cow Project - Part Two of Two - Finish the Herd! 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!	Amount to fund: $2,250 100% Complete ($2,250) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
35 ECG Machine - Kumi An ECG machine is a medical tool that can measure the activity of the heart. Completed!	Amount to fund: $1,500 100% Complete ($1,500) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
36 Clean Water Wells (One of Four) Busiringe 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!	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete ($500) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
37 Clean Water Wells (Two of Four) Busiringe 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!	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete ($500) Admin costs: $1 100% Complete
38 Clean Water Wells (Three of Four) Busanda 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!	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete ($500) Admin costs: $1 100% Complete
39 Clean Water Wells (Four of Four) Nsinze 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 one Nsinze well video two Nsinze well video three After watching each video, use your back button to come back so you can see the next video. Completed!	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete ($500) Admin costs: $1 100% Complete
40 Well Number FIVE - Kalalu, Uganda - Uganda Village Project 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!	Amount to fund: $1 100% Complete ($1) Admin costs: $1 100% Complete
41 Uganda Village Project Well Project Number Six! 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!	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete ($500) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
42 UVP Well Number 7 - BONUS Well for Combined project! 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.	Amount to fund: $800 100% Complete ($860) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
43 2008 BONUS WELL - A Combined Project (Well #8) 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.	Amount to fund: $800 100% Complete ($810) Admin costs: $1 100% Complete
44 UVP Well Number Nine! 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!	Amount to fund: $800 100% Complete ($800) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
45 UVP Well Number Ten at Namadope. 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!	Amount to fund: $800 100% Complete ($810) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
46 Engeye - Exam Tables for New Health Clinic 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!	Amount to fund: $900 100% Complete ($900) Admin costs: $25 100% Complete
47 Orphaned Children Family Supply Project 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!	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete ($500) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
48 Blackboards and Desks for Education 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! Headmaster's Message of Thanks	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete ($500) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
49 Malaika Microfinance Project Tanzania 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!	Amount to fund: $2,500 100% Complete ($2,500) Admin costs: $1 100% Complete

Total Donated: $110,257.00 Site Hits: 49193 Date: Time: Last updated: 2/28/2010