U g a n d a
Population: 35.65 Million
Total GDP: 19.399 Billion
GDP per person: $1,400
Orphans: 2.5 Million
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Which Came First?
These Children Know.
The impact of your RetailROI grant to
Lend A Hand Uganda
Your RetailROI grants are changing the future for students in Uganda!
Ask a hundred schoolchildren in rural Uganda the world's oldest riddle: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Because of your generosity, they'll answer without hesitation. It was the chicken. One hundred of them now scratch around a brand-new coop built with your support, and four hundred more are on the way. When the flock matures in October, their eggs will mean a brighter future for these families: fresh protein on students' lunch plates and income for the community from every extra egg sold at market.
It gets better. The initial $5,000 grant inspired another $5,000 in new donations toward the expanded project- a 100% match. Every dollar you gave became two dollars working for these children and their futures. Learn More
500 Students Get Clean Water
by Greg Buzek
James Carney has participated in many community events during his trips to Uganda over the past 14 years, but he has never seen the formal dedication of a well. But thanks to RetailROI he was able to see one this time. In truth, he expected a “well dedication” to be a relatively tame affair – a few school officials, a few student leaders, a formal speech or two, ribbon cutting and photo-op, and away we go. You can imagine his surprise, then, as they drove up to the school with hundreds of students lining the road, cheering, dancing and clapping. “Ekyo kya bulijjo”? Literally in Luganda, “does this happen every day?”
He soon learned that the reasons for such celebration went beyond typical Ugandan hospitality for foreign visitors. Namely, the 500 students at this school had been traveling by foot for upwards of 2 hours to fetch water from nearby streams. The water was often contaminated. To make matters worse, the long journeys exposed the students to great physical dangers, ranging from robbery to injury to sexual assault.
So a simple $5,000 pump well offers so much to this community. Below is a brief video of the kids singing “Water is Life” Thank you RetailROI and your gift of clean water to our community.
As the students sing in this video, “Water is Life!” A small sign of shalom, in a remote village in central Uganda.
Uganda Videos
Join us on our next trip to Uganda
Latest News from RetailROI Uganda Projects & Trips
500 Students Get Clean Water
by Greg Buzek
James Carney has participated in many community events during his trips to Uganda over the past 14 years, but he has never seen the formal dedication of a well. But thanks to RetailROI he was able to see one this time. In truth, he expected a “well dedication” to be a relatively tame affair – a few school officials, a few student leaders, a formal speech or two, ribbon cutting and photo-op, and away we go. You can imagine his surprise, then, as they drove up to the school with hundreds of students lining the road, cheering, dancing and clapping. “Ekyo kya bulijjo”? Literally in Luganda, “does this happen every day?”
He soon learned that the reasons for such celebration went beyond typical Ugandan hospitality for foreign visitors. Namely, the 500 students at this school had been traveling by foot for upwards of 2 hours to fetch water from nearby streams. The water was often contaminated. To make matters worse, the long journeys exposed the students to great physical dangers, ranging from robbery to injury to sexual assault.
So a simple $5,000 pump well offers so much to this community. Below is a brief video of the kids singing “Water is Life” Thank you RetailROI and your gift of clean water to our community.
As the students sing in this video, “Water is Life!” A small sign of shalom, in a remote village in central Uganda.
Sudan
Population: 33.51 Million
Total GDP: 53.267 Billion
GDP per person: $2,600
Orphans: 3.5 Million
