From the field
Deliveries, outreach days, home visits and appeal updates. Photos and notes from the Institute team, posted as they happen.
Our team spent the day at the village school: deworming and malaria tests for every child, a health talk with the parents and a hot meal for everyone. The medical outreach appeal pays for the medicines and the clinical team.
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Seven villagers, four of them women, were elected to run the new tap stand and the rainwater tanks. They agreed the maintenance fee and where the spare parts will be kept. The spring works start as soon as the appeal reaches its goal.
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Exercise books, pens, uniforms and shoes for the 30 girls in the Wakiso appeal, handed over at the school with their mothers and the head teacher. Attendance is checked at the end of each term.
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Every family we support gets a visit before and after help arrives. We look at the roof, the food in the house, who is in school and who is ill, and we write it down. That record is how we decide what to do next and how we report back to you.
The first half of the families in the Luwero appeal planted this week, just in time for the rains. The agronomist's first training day covered spacing and mulching; the next one is at weeding time.
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Maize flour, beans, oil, sugar, soap and a jerrycan for 60 households that the village council and our team identified as the most vulnerable, most of them grandparents raising grandchildren.
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Current missions
A protected spring and two rainwater tanks, so 300 families stop walking two hours a day for water that makes their children sick.
$6,360 raised of $12,000 goal 53%
Posho, beans and a cup of porridge for every child at a village primary school for a full school year.
$11,250 raised of $18,000 goal 63%
A medical team, medicines and transport for a one-day clinic in a village that is 40 kilometres from the nearest health centre.
$3,060 raised of $8,500 goal 36%
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