Education and Scholarships |
A Community Chicken Farm |
Throughout Uganda, the prospects for children born in a rural village are bleak. They are likely to remain poor their whole lives. This is the case for the children who live in the small Jewish village of K'far Rishon Namutumba in eastern Uganda.
For these children, the surest way out of poverty is education. But school isn't free in Uganda. You can make a vital difference in these children's lives by contributing to their education at the African Soup Primary School, an excellent school in eastern Uganda. A note from Ellen: It sometimes takes an American village to help raise an African village. Hope for the village of K'far Rishon Namutumba rests in the future of their children. We can nurture that hope by helping these children receive a quality education at the African Soup Primary School. -Ellen Frankel |
Most of the villagers who live in K’far Rishon Namutumba are subsistence farmers, growing
only enough food to feed their families. There are no jobs in the village, no other ways to make money. Last year, thanks to generous donations amounting to $15,000, the community built a chicken house and purchased 300 chicks. In ten months, the chickens laid close to 30,000 eggs and sold to the local market. The profits were divided between reinvestment, salaries, and savings in the Community Bank Account. The villagers would like to scale up operations by building a second chicken house and buying more chickens. The price tag for this expansion is $10,000. They are turning to us again for help. This is the first revenue-producing, job-creating enterprise in this community. |
Please consider contributing generously to this community.