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Uganda
www.kihefo.org
To fight disease ,poverty and ignorance using integrated,innovative and sustainable approaches
This campaign uplifts rural poor communities especially women and youth living in extreme poverty by breeding rabbits. Kigezi Healthcare Foundation(KIHEFO) has been supporting families by giving five females and one male rabbit.Rabbits multiply fast and only eat vegetation. One female rabbit produces an average of 60 in a year and up to 20 female rabbits can be retained for breeding. This gives the family up to 1,600 if they eat 400 they can sell 1,200 at $3 and earn $3,600 per year or $10 daily
Uganda went through a series of lockdowns as a result of COVID 19 pandemic and this disrupted many aspects of already fragile health situations. Maternal deaths went up, many children were not immunized. A number of people with non communicable diseases could not have access to critically needed medical care. Our clinics for non communicable diseases have remained closed and there is urgent need to reopen them. We need to repair our ambulance and start evacuating mothers, provide delivery kits.
This project helps to uplift rural poor communities especially women and youth living in extreme poverty by joining community cooperatives. Kigezi Healthcare foundation has been supporting families to join community cooperatives that in turn support their small enterprises through savings and credits, so many families have joined crafts cooperatives, mushroom cooperative, vegetable cooperatives, rabbit cooperatives, and many others. $20 can help a poor woman join a cooperative.
This project helps to send vulnerable children to go back to school after COVID-19 pandemic. In Uganda, all schools were closed in March 2020 as part of total lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic. This affected 17 million learners countrywide. Partial easing of the lockdown started by sending candidate classes back to school in October 2020 and the statistics from the ministry of Education indicates that 40% of the learners could not go back to school because parents/ guardians could not afford