Project: Batwa Duplex

Partner: CARSA

Project Goal: Complete two duplexes to house four Batwa Tribe families

Cost: $8,700

Purpose/Benefit: CARSA sees a society where genocide survivors and their direct offenders are reconciled — where peace and unity flourish above all. This seemingly impossible reality is occurring through CARSA’s various initiatives that address the holistic needs of reconciliation and healing in post-genocide Rwanda. CARSA exists to reconnect genocide victims and their offenders, empower youth for sustainable peace-building, empower communities out of poverty, and disciple children as followers of Christ. These duplexes will house four families from the Batwa Tribe.

Partner: Arizona State University, Project CURE, Gensler, Medical Teams International

Project: Clinic Container Project

Project Goal: To design a clinic from a 40’ container that will support a refugee settlement in Northern Uganda.

Cost: $30,000

Purpose/Benefit: Our goal is to provide support by supplying a 40’ shipping container with power, water, and a healthcare infrastructure integrated inside. This shipping container will be located outside of an existing health center facility to provide support through additional medical space, secure storage, and reliable power and water sterilization.

Project: Sport Court

Partner: Ocer Campion

Project Goal:To build a sport’s court at Ocer Campion that will be used to facilitate peace building and enhance their athletic program.

Cost: $50,000

Purpose/Benefit: 

Ocer Campion Jesuit College (OCJC) is located in Northern Uganda, in Awich village, eight kilometers out of Gulu town. The school project was championed by the Jesuit Province of Eastern Africa in 2006 as a post –civil war recovery initiative for Northern Uganda.  For over two decades, Northern Uganda was engulfed in the infamous Lord’s Resistance insurgency which left many families and the entire region in shambles. The school is one of the many recovery and rehabilitation projects that were established to help rebuild, resettle, give hope and restore human dignity to the many children and families who had been affected by the war.

In 2010, the school opened its doors to the first 35 students who joined a preparatory primary seven class. In addition to the primary seven class, the school now runs a lower level Secondary level section with a population of 617 students.

OCJC is a private boarding catholic Jesuit founded school and is run by the Eastern Africa Province of the Society of Jesus. Ocer Campion is a mixed school offering quality education to both boys and girls from different religious affiliations.

Project: St. Thomas Aquinas College Teachers’ Quarters in Moyo, Uganda

Partner: St. Thomas Aquinas College

Project Goal: To design and build a prototype for a duplex that will house and attract quality educators to the school.

Cost: $50,000

Purpose/Benefit:

• The school and campus of St. Thomas Aquinas College will serve 800+ students, most of whom are orphaned or from disadvantaged families. St. Thomas Aquinas College will supplement a traditional curriculum with vocational training, peace & conflict resolution, and moral and spiritual formation.
• Thomas Aquinas College has a multipurpose hall, 2 classroom buildings, and has 2 dorms under construction. They expect to open in the Fall of 2019.
• The goal is to have at least one duplex that will house two teachers and their families by the time the school is ready to open.
• Each residence will have 2 bedrooms, one bathroom, a kitchen, and a living room.
• The building will be constructed using the brick making machine that Pipeline Worldwide purchased for them.  It makes interlocking bricks and reduces the amount of cement needed by 30%. Cement is the most expensive material in the construction process in Uganda.

Project: Sustainable Food Program for Bless a Child Foundation in Kampala, Uganda

Partner: Bless A Child

Project Goal: To develop both a 5-year sustainable food plan and provide supplemental support during the implementation.

Cost: $25,000

Purpose/Benefit:

Bless a Child Foundation is a nongovernmental organization that provides care support services to children from the ages of 0-12 years suffering from cancer and related infections. Established in March 2007, Bless a Child Foundation was founded as a result of a realized need that pediatric cancer patients in Uganda had inadequate access to medical care and support.

Through its various care activities Bless a Child Foundation ensures that all pediatric cancer patients referred access the proper diagnosis and cancer treatment required. In addition, Bless a Child Foundation conducts additional activities to ensure that the pediatric patients under our

care continue to the extent possible to live normal lives including making certain that they receive educational services, games and entertainment while undergoing treatment. Bless a Child Foundation also provides for the psycho-socio support services to the parents/care givers of the children. The primary purpose of this service provision is to enable the parents/guardians to better cope with the complexities of treatment and care as well as understand their responsibilities.

Currently the Kampala home has 60 residents. Each resident received 3 meals, a snack, and afternoon tea each day.  These provisions include both dry rations and fresh foods such as corn flour, beans, rice, ground nuts, millet flour, wheat flour, pasta, chicken, beef, fish, matooke, vegetables and fruits.

The house is also in the heart of the city with limited space.  Innovative solutions and strategic partnerships will be necessary to the success of this project.

Partner: Friends of Naivasha, Rotary International, University of Utah, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Egerton University

Project: Improving Neonatal Mortality in Nakuru, Kenya Through Healthcare Education and Capacity Building

Project Goal: Provide simulation education and training to reduce neonatal mortality due to asphyxia.

Cost: $25,000

Purpose/Benefit: Our team will focus on providing training to nurses who provide intervention to babies born in respiratory distress or who have difficulty breathing at birth. Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) is an International Simulation Program to teach Nurses and Health Professionals how to respond immediately in the first “Golden Minute” to resuscitate the asphyxiated baby for the most successful outcomes. The team of Neonatologists and Neonatal Nurse Practitioners from University of Nebraska Medical Center will be providing focused simulation education in Nakuru County Referral Hospital in Nakuru, Kenya where 1,300 babies are born each month. A team of Doctors and Nurses from Nakuru also will go to UNMC to work beside the Nebraska Team in the Simulation Center and observe the care given in the NICU to ensure confidence in the new skills in HBB and CPAP technology (a continuous positive pressure machine to assist babies to breathe in the newborn nursery). This education will address the importance of using both the nationally recognized HBB training at birth along with CPAP, for the babies who need additional respiratory support after birth until asphyxia is resolved. This is a unique group of interventions that build of one another. Many centers have used HBB but have not had the positive outcomes that using both HBB and CPAP can provide.

Nakuru Nurses will then assure that focused simulation education is ongoing by using Master Trainers to continue the training and practice simulation every six months to assure skills are retained after the intense training is finished. The labor and delivery nurses continue to practice simulation on a baby manikin in their department and constantly be confident in HBB skills while skilled nursery nurses teach new nurses how to use the CPAP by simulation practice on manikins first. We know these two interventions together provide us the best possible opportunity to achieve greater outcomes.

Project: Jackie Fox Memorial Library

Partner: Sewing Hope Foundation

Project Goal: To complete and furnish a library for a preschool at St. Monica’s Vocational School Campus in Gulu, Uganda

Cost: $12,000 COMPLETED

Project Description: Co-founder, Jamie Nollette, helped raise funds to complete and furnish a library geared towards early education at Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe’s preschool.  Jamie’s late mother visited the campus in Gulu, Uganda in November 2015 and as a former teacher, she was passionate about education and serving the poor.

Project: Cancer Treatment for 40 children for 4 months

Partner:  Bless a Child Foundation

Project Goal: To supplement treatment for children with cancer during a drug shortage and lack of resources in Uganda

Cost: $10,000 COMPLETED

Purpose/Benefit: Over the year, a lot of progress has been made in treating cancer in Uganda but high mortality rates still prevail due to a number of challenges including lack of accommodation for admitted patients.  Inadequately equipped health care facilities and the prevalent myth that child cancers are almost impossible to cure.

Bless a Child has come to appreciate lack of finances to meet medical requirements as a major challenge that jeopardizes pediatric cancer treatment outcomes.  First, as much as the national health system (through Uganda Cancer Institute) tries to provide free cancer treatment to children, there is often the challenge of drug stock-outs.  When drugs prescribed for a treatment regimen are out-of-stock at the Hospital, caregivers of pediatric sufferers are required to purchase them expensively from private pharmacies.  Secondly, many tests such as blood works and scans that are required at different stages of cancer treatment are not sponsored and have to be paid for by caregivers of cancer patients. Unfortunately for majority of their beneficiaries, these costs are way beyond their means.

More often than not, by the time children reach national hospitals for treatment, their families are almost at the end of their financial/economic means.  They have traveled hundreds of miles from home, have spent a lot of money seeking treatment for symptoms before finally being referred for cancer diagnosis and treatment.  And as if that is not enough, they have spent significantly large sums on scans and blood work in the process of cancer diagnosis prior to initiation of treatment.  Many times, the cost of medical requirements for cancer treatment becomes a deterrent for adherence to the prescribed treatment plan.  Ultimately, some children will miss treatment, delay treatment or desert treatment, tremendously reducing their survival outcomes.

Bless a Child Foundation believes that they can save the lives of countless children if they walk with them all the way on their treatment journey.  By subsidizing the medical costs of cancer treatment, children suffering from cancer will have better odds of survival.

Project: Project C.U.R.E. Lacor Hospital

Partner: Project C.U.R.E.

Project Goal: Provide one container with $500,000 worth of medical supplies and equipment to Lacor Hospital benefiting over 250,000 patients seen at the hospital and surrounding clinics per year; container will then be repurposed into a bunkhouse for farmhands

Cost: $35,000 COMPLETED

Purpose/Benefit: Project C.U.R.E. is the largest provider of donated medical supplies and equipment to developing countries around the world. Lacor Hospital is a private, non-profit hospital serving more than 250,000 patients annually with a vast range of diagnostic, therapeutic and preventative medical services. Children five and under comprise 32% of the patients. The hospital is also at the forefront of health training in Uganda — 350 resident students attend the hospital’s schools for training in nursing, laboratory and anesthesia practices, health education and AIDS counseling services. Lacor also serves as a university teaching site for the Government University of Gulu Faculty of Medicine.

Project: Project C.U.R.E. Moyo Hospital

Partner: Project C.U.R.E.

Project Goal: Provide one container with $500,000 worth of medical supplies and equipment to Moyo Hospital benefiting over 250,000 patients seen at the hospital and surrounding clinics per year; container will then be repurposed into a store for St. Thomas Aquinas College.

Cost: $35,000  COMPLETED

Project: Moyo Babies’ Home Van

Partner: Moyo Babies’ Home

Project Goal: To purchase a van for Moyo Babies’ Home

Cost: $17,000  COMPLETED

Purpose/Benefit: Many children and babies become orphaned during times of conflict and forced displacement.  The nature of the conflicts in northern Uganda and across the border in South Sudan have made it especially difficult to find relatives of lost and orphaned children.  Every child deserves a safe and loving environment to grow up in and that is exactly what Moyo Babies’ Home offers to hundreds of babies and children.    Recently their only vehicle which was over a decade old broke down.  Help us to purchase a new van to help transport babies to and from the local hospital and clinics.

Project: Container Bunkhouse

Partner: Sewing Hope Foundation

Project Goal: Convert container into bunkhouse for farmhands

Cost: $15,000  COMPLETED

Purpose/Benefit: The Project C.U.R.E. container that is being delivered to Lacor Hospital in Gulu, Uganda will be purchased and relocated to Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe’s farm which is located near Atiak, Uganda.  Pipeline Worldwide recently sent two students to train at a vocational agricultural school.  These graduates now run the farm and oversee the 75 prisoners who also work on the land daily.  The container will be converted into a bunkhouse for the farmhands.  The food grown on this farm serves the women and children who attend St. Monica’s Vocational School and preschool.  It also supplies their restaurant that is also located on their compound.  (*Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe was voted by TIME “Top 100 Most Influential People” in 2014 and was a CNN Hero Recipient.)

Project: Container Store Project

Partner: E3 Africa

Project Goal: To convert 40’ shipping container into a store

Cost: $15,000 COMPLETED

Purpose/Benefit:  The Project C.U.R.E. container that is being delivered to Moyo Hospital will be purchased and relocated at the campus of St. Thomas Aquinas College in Moyo, Uganda.  It will be converted into a store that will be used by the school. The school just recently finished its first phase of construction. When completed, this school will serve 800+ students, most of whom are orphaned or from disadvantaged families. St. Thomas Aquinas College will supplement a traditional curriculum with vocational training, peace & conflict resolution, and moral and spiritual formation.