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Call To Care Uganda has worked to bring clean water to four Ugandan villages who had previously gone without. By partnering with our local Rotary Clubs in Madison and Guilford, CT to provide the initial funding and then with further participation at the district and international levels of Rotary, full funding was accomplished, and these wells are currently flowing and bringing life-giving water to more than 1,800 people! Making connections, forming project partnerships and building human bridges to help children cross-continentally…that’s who we are. 
Enjoy these pictures of new wells taken when we visited and celebrated in November 2008.
We discovered that even more than just the obvious health benefits from clean water (i.e., decrease in water borne illnesses, quenching thirst and avoiding death from dehydration) there are other benefits as well:
The gift of time is given back to the women and children of the village. They often walked for many miles each direction with heavy jugs to complete this daily survival task. Now that the well is in their village…they have been given back precious time to focus on other things that are also important.
Education. The children are not sick so, if they are lucky enough to be enrolled, they can now attend school on a regular basis and not have their studies disrupted due to illness.
Well Committee. This is a group of elected citizens that has formed to take care of the maintenance of the well. They have collected a small amount of money from villagers that are able to give and set up a bank account. In the event that the well ever breaks down, they will not go without water again. They are thinking not just of today…but planning for tomorrow. This is progress!
Our most recent and ambitious project is building a complete children’s center in Kaberamaido District! There is extreme poverty in this region, and children often must fend for themselves while their parents work to provide a meager existence. Or, worse yet, their parents may be deceased.
The center will be a place in the Kaberamaido community where children will be fed nutritious meals, get clean clothes, learn to read, play on a playground, seek medical care and receive routine medical treatment for common, but potentially deadly diseases, like malaria. But mostly…to come to a place of refuge where they can be…well…kids!
We’ve already made progress on this project; thanks to the generosity of dozens of people – in fact, the land has already been purchased and initial plans and blueprints have been developed!
We still need lots of help though. Our goal is to raise $95,000, which will cover building costs as well as the costs associated with sustaining the center for at least the first two years. This works out to be less than $10 per square foot, which is a modest cost for a center that will yield immeasurable returns far into the future.
This will be one of our most important partnerships to date, as friends of Call To Care Uganda join together to help fund the project, square foot by square foot.
$10 = 1 sq. foot - - - - how many feet can we count you in for?
Please don’t hesitate to contact our CTCU President, Martha Hoffman at marthahoffman@comcast.net anytime. We’d love to hear your thoughts!