NEED: Education and medical services for poor villagers
DONOR: St. James Parish, Arlington Heights, IL (if a large donor needs to be named)
SOLUTION:
- A poultry farm was built with a $5000 grant.
- The eggs and chickens are sold, bringing in $100-$300/month to help pay for medical services.
- Additional profit is reinvested in the farm.
UPDATE
As of July 2024, an additional $5000 has been granted to expand the farming operation, and provide additional beds in the clinic.
Kkonge
NEED: Education and medical services for poor villagers
DONOR: St. James Parish, Arlington Heights, IL (if a large donor needs to be named)
SOLUTION:
- A poultry farm was built with a $5000 grant.
- The eggs and chickens are sold, bringing in $100-$300/month to help pay for medical services.
- Additional profit is reinvested in the farm.
UPDATE
As of July 2024, an additional $5000 has been granted to expand the farming operation, and provide additional beds in the clinic.
2013-Present.
Kayunga District 13
The initial funds created the Rita Lee Dispensary. Cash and equipment donations included an Ultrasound, incubator, microfinance pig, and cow farm. The funds remodeled the facility and created a working surgery center that was not found in rural Uganda.
Invested: $50,000
2014-2015
Masaka Disctrict
Microfinance-based grants created small dairy farms that demonstrated economic self-reliance while supporting the local Bikira village clinic with milk profits. Invested: $20,000
2016-2017
Masaka District, Kkonge Community
Dairy breeding farm, expanding to an eight sub-parish malaria prevention mini-clinics. Using profits from the farm to create coffee and elephant grass crops, employing local villagers, and creating subsidized housing for the poor. Evaluation total ~ $17,000
2017-2018
St. Francis Hospital Clinic at Nyenga
Microfinance 8 local Africans and fed breed dairy cow farm for cattle. Profits support the clinic for impoverished mothers and babies who cannot afford to pay. Evaluation Toal: ~ $15k
2017-2018
Ggaba
Assist the operation of the national seminary to provide milk to feed over 100 students and faculty. Evaluation total: $2,000
2018-1019
Supplied food and drinking water for over 5,000 displaced villagers. Supplied Cholera prevention medicine for the aftermath of the flood. Evaluation total: $15,000
2018-2019
Microfinance Diary Farm facility construction, planting a maize crop, pilot planting seed start up to family farms producing their own food. Profit supports the clinic paying fees for those mothers and babies unable to pay for clinic services. Evaluation total: $15,000
2020-2021.
Kasese Diocese
With Microfinance funds, a Piggery Farm was established to benefit mothers and babies in the Kyarumba villages. Donations provided leprosy support, cook stoves, microscopes, mattresses for the new hospital, and a burn unit for children. Evaluation total: $15,000
2022
Banabikira
Microfinance remodeled a piggery facility to provide supplemental income to serve mothers and babies who cannot pay clinic fees. Evaluation total: $5,000
2022-2023
Soroti
A donation by the Brennan Family paid for a pilot microfinance initiative that built a tilapia and catfish farm to benefit the Soroti Clinic. Evaluation total: $5,000
2021-2022
Kyarymba Clinic
Pilot Microfinance Poultry Farm to pay for medical fees for mothers and children at the Kyarymba Clinic. Evaluation Total: $5,000
2018-1019
Pilot Microfinance Poultry Farm to pay for medical fees for mothers and children who cannot pay. Evaluation Total: $5,000
2022-2023
Luwero Diocese
Microfinanced Poultry Farm to pay for medical fees for mothers and babies who cannot pay for services. Evaluation total: $5,000
2022-2023
Collaboration between MAAP Foundation, Our Lady of the Wayside School, and Kasese Diocese. Microfinance for a sewing machine and materials for making and selling menstrual pads. Evaluation total: $2,000
2022-2023
Macy Family Poultry Fram, Nyenga
Microfinance Poultry Farm to pay for medical fees for mothers and babies who cannot pay. Evaluation total: $5,000
2023
Fr. Zeddy and Barry Family
Microfinance Pig Farm to pay for mothers and babies who cannot pay clinic fees. This is the only pig style construction so far. Evaluation total: $5,000
2024
Kyotera District
Microfinance Dispensary for the St. Nazareth Clinic
2024
Kayunga District
2024
Kyankwanzi District, Mityana Dioceses
2024
Jinja Distric in Jinja Diocese
2024
Kassandra District, Klyinda Mityana Diocese