| Suggestions:
In any project to
help Uganda, it is important to consider how much of the donation is likely to get to the intended destination. Channeling money
through government organizations or NGOs risks diversion of funds to
administrative or undocumented overhead. The closer to the intended
beneficiary the money can be directed, the better.
Figure out if
you want your donation to benefit an individual, or the community.
Either is legitimate. Helping improve the lot of one
individual can
give long term one-on-one satisfaction, and may earn personal
thanks. Helping advance an entire community is less personal, but likely
spreads the benefits more widely.
Here are some thoughts:
- $100US:
Sports equipment for a school: balls, nets, whistles.
- $100US: One set of teacher guides for a single subject
through the 7 elementary grades. (Publisher
MK)
- $600US: Rehabilitate one shallow well.
- $1,200US: Rehabilitate one deep well.
- $2,500US: Create one protected water source on a shallow well or
valley spring.
- $2,000US: One four-hole latrine for a primary school.
- $5,000US: One teachers' quarters to attract 2 teachers to a
government primary school.
- $3,000US: Scholarship for one student to attend secondary
school (spread over 6 years).
- $8,000US: Assembly hall for 450 students at a primary
school.
- $5,000US: Solar installation to pump a borehole continuously
to a holding tank with reticulation.
Things to carry on a trip
- $Various: Medical supplies for a government clinic. Tylenol,
fungicides, suturing kit, disinfectant, stethoscope, blood
pressure cuff, sheets, pillow case, towel, magnifying glass,
pressure cooker, band-aids, ointments.
- $4. The suitcase from the Salvation Army that you use to
carry your supplies, for a kid going to secondary (boarding)
school.
- $8. One of those cute Chinese flashlights that has a squeeze
grip to charge the battery.
- $14. Reading glasses to give to the Local Council chair who
is beginning to have trouble reading.
- $50: Books for children to read.
- $50: Salvation army clothes - simple girls' dresses, boys'
shirts and shorts.
As a result of the Kibaire project we now have contacts at the
local level. Money can be directed to school principals, to local
water source committees, to a local council, or to a designated
project funded through the sub-county.
Experimental
- Demonstration of high-efficiency wood burning stove, train
local brick-makers in production of insulating chimneys.
- Demonstration of Ram pump to lift water from a spring to a
holding tank at village level.
- Demonstration of a Dankoff piston pump for the same purpose,
powered by bicycles or boda-boda.
- Explore the higher elevation springs south of Bulindi to see
if water can be gravity fed to the village in a pipe.
- Plant Jatropha Curcas to demonstrate production of lighting
oil and maybe diesel extender.
- Plant Moringa Oleifera for cooking oil.
- Explore shipments of tropical vegetables from Entebbe to
London.
- Help the bee farmer in Kyabanita with marketing his honey.
- Help the onion farmers in Kisiita with marketing.
- Explore fish farming in dug ponds along the sides of the
swamp.
- Try to harness the power in the five culverts of the Kiha
swamp on the Kibaire-Kasita road.
Contacts:
 Hervey
Howell, 1693 Graves Lane, Maceo KY USA 42355
E-mail: hervey.howell@owbky.com.
Tel: (270) 264-4506
Skype hervey.howell
Joanita Isingoma, Kampala, Uganda
E-mail:
isingomajn@yahoo.com Tel:
0417-05646; 0772-951855
Rev. Mike Kaahwa, Anglican Diocese, Hoima,
E-mail: mikeateenyi@yahoo.co.uk
Mr. Barugahara Joffrey, Chairman III, Kyabigambire Water
and Sanitation, Tel: 0774-744229
Dr. Rogers Kanzikwera, Director,
Bulindi Zonal Agricultural Research and Development Institute (
BUZARDI )
E-mail
rkanzikwera@yahoo.com
Mobile: +2567-7243-9886
E-mail bulindizardi@yahoo.com
Tel: +2563-1273-9886
Dr. Denis Kyetere, Director General of
NARO,
E-mail
dgnaro@infocom.co.ug
Bwete S, Pump technician Kyabigambire sub-county
Tel:
0751-949831
Richard
Tel: 0772-304665
Maani John, Councillor for Buraru, Kyabigambire sub-county
Tel: 0782-043911
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