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| Check out the introductions below to the projects we support in Uganda. To investigate each one further, click on "Learn More" at the end of the description. |
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| Sponsored children gather around a portable blackboard to learn their letters and numbers. |
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Over 190 Ugandan children, most of whom are orphans or live in poverty with one parent, are sponsored by individuals, families, schools, churches or civic organizations in the United States. Tree of Life Ministries, working with RPU, helps to establish and maintain individual relationships between child and sponsor through photos, gift-giving, letters from the kids, and annual reports from teachers.
A yearly sponsorship for one child is $150! It provides school fees, a daily meal, uniforms, periodic health care, and the new Saturday program. It is amazing how much can be done with so little--less than half of the typical dollar-a-day sponsorship of other programs. The reason is low overhead. Our Board members and Executive Director for RPU here in the US donate their time and pay for the twice per year trips to Uganda many of them take.
The Tree of Life Ministries Saturday Program is the only one of its kind in Lukaya and meets a great need to care on weekends. Sponsored students come to engage in a variety of learning and fun activities plus eat nutritious food. Without this special day, many kids would be roaming the streets near a main highway and scrounging for food. The Saturday Program enables us to provide medical care, share Bible stories and songs, tutor children that need academic help, and promote the fellowship and fun of organized games. Parents love the Saturday Program because so many of them work six days a week. To learn more or sponsor a child, click here.......
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With the purchase in 2006 of a 10-acre campus just 1/4 mile off the highway, Real Partners Uganda began working with our partners to plan an integrated, organic farm. The goal is to feed nutritious meals to the children and sell products to generate income for the project. The first full year of organic farming activities is 2008. Sustainable methods of integrated agriculture that build up the soil and provide healthy food are being implemented.
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Sweet Spot is the first farm animal born on the Tree of Life Farm.
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This group of mothers and teachers began using their craft skills in 2006 to produce the local specialty-- baskets and woven goods-- to support themselves and the project. With help from RPU a shop along the highway was rented, a trainer has joined the guild, and we've located the first outlet in the US for their crafts. Recently a volunteer group from Florida helped to paint and build shelving for the shop. A special attraction for weary travelers is the new composting toilet, nicknamed the Loveable Loo.
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Mothers of the Lukaya Artisans Guild sell crafts and jewelry to support themselves and the school.
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Corner view of the Mustard Seed Academy campus. The temporary dark building on the right houses P-3 and P-4 classes, the white building in the center has the pre-school while the office building is to the left. A central garden grow in the center with play areas and walkways around it.
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| The new Mustard Seed Academy campus has two permanent and two temporary buildings on leased land. Tree of Life Ministries and RPU are working to purchase land for a permanent home that will include a pre-school and primary school, levels 1-7. Plans call for the campus to be powered by solar energy and have a water management system and do composting of human wastes so that environmental impact is minimized. Currently RPU is attempting to raise $12,000 to purchase land for the permanent campus. Learn how to help..... |
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Real Partners Uganda has worked on a number of other projects in the area. The rural village of Kalungi, in Lukaya Township, has a health clinic that is benefiting from our support with new desks for the nursing school, a refrigerator for medicines, and special test kits for diseases. Recently we partnered with the clinic to purchase a van for tranporting patients and students. The Kalungi primary school, St. Stephen's, benefits from the outreach activities of Eastern Christian High School, North Haledon, NJ where students have raised thousands of dollars to feed and clothe poor children and provide them with mosquito nets as protection against malaria. Girls graduating from St. Stephen's are receiving support to attend secondary or technical schools through efforts of RPU and its special friends.
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Children attending St. Stephens government school in the village of Kalungi often sit in classes with 70 or more students.
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