The Kasese Clinic is making progress! Check back soon for more construction updates! Update 1.20.25 | The finishing touches on the Deacon Pierce Sheehan Memorial Maternity and Pediatric Clinic construction are in the works. We are purchasing beds and working on funding to give them solar power in the new clinic. Update 11.16.24 | The…
A good part of each $5000 MAAP Foundation grant approved by the MAAP Board requires a facility. Generally, this means construction from scratch or remodeling. The host supplies the land. Next, blueprints, engineering, management, labor, and materials come together. Once the facility is approved by our MAAP Uganda Staff (on the ground), an additional $2500…
With a donation of $1000 from the Ruebe Family, three sewing machines costing 2 million Uganda shillings have started a sewing academy in Mbarara, Uganda. This second “Dress a Girl” mission jump-starts a friendship with 300 young Uganda girls. Each will soon have the opportunity to make and sell their own dresses. Microfinancing will be…
In the heart of Uganda, in the district of Kasese, a small act of kindness has blossomed into something much greater than anyone could have imagined. At Our Lady of the Wayside School in the United States, a community of students, led by their teacher Joe Nigliazzo, set out to make a difference across the…
Dress A Girl has hundreds of dresses for girls ages 6 months to 10 years old. The MAAP Foundation has delivered them to Kasese, Uganda! Each dress comes with a pair of underwear and a beaded bracelet. The younger girls receive a hand-sewn doll MAAPF Needs Shipping Donations! We will send these dresses to Kasese,…
$25,800 IS NEEDED to help us build the DEACON PIERCE SHEEHAN MATERNITY & PEDIATRIC WARD for the St. Philomena Clinic in KASESE, UGANDA! The Kasese region of Uganda is a stunning mountainous area, but it is prone to mudslides and floods. The closest hospital is 40 kilometers away over terrible roads and terrain, making it…