Fundraising Info!

I am writing to you on behalf of the Uganda Village Project, a non-profit volunteer organization which aims to improve the lives of impoverished villagers in the Iganga District of Uganda, East Africa. The success of our organization depends upon our ability to raise adequate funding. Currently in our seventh year of operation, we send international volunteer teams of students and professionals to the Iganga District. We are a completely non-profit, volunteer-run organization. One hundred percent of donated funds are directed toward the operation of public health and education programs in Uganda. We are conducting a campaign to look for interested sponsors for our projects. Our main projects in need of sponsorship are as follows:

• Uganda Village Project Scholarship Fund for HIV orphans, which sends nearly 100 Ugandan children to high school and pays for tuition and supplies. $300 could sponsor an orphan for a year.

• Our 'Safe Water Systems' project which is working to improve sanitation in rural villages and, hopefully, to save the lives of small children who are the victims of preventable diarrheal diseases. We build shallow water sources that are protected from contamination, and promote chlorination products that can sanitize dirty water. $1,200 can fund the construction of an entire well.

• Healthy Village Initiative, our newest project which works with individual villages and their health centers on improving their access to health care, clean drinking water, and latrines. Additionally, we work with the village leaders to educate the villages about common diseases, disease prevention, and we organize screening, testing, and treatment for diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, obstetric fistulas, and diseases of the eye. 

• Obstetric fistula: We have established a referral system in the Iganga district for women suffering from obstetric fistula, a devastating condition that is rampant in developing countries after prolonged labor. We are also raising awareness of how to prevent and treat fistula, to protect women from it as well as to inspire them to seek the surgical treatment that can cure it.

FUND RAISING BREAKDOWN: Where is my money going? 

The following is the breakdown to what your money will go to when you donate. 

• $ 15 Prevent Malaria - Provide a family with reliable mosquito nets 
• $ 25 Give Family Planning Education, Safe Pregnancy and birth control to a village for an entire year 
• $ 50 Fight for the malnourished - provide a mother and severely malnourished child transportation to a hospital and rehabilitation 
• $ 60 Heal Women - Repair one woman's obstetric fistulas, conduct community outreach and follow up with patient 
• $ 75 Combat HIV/AIDS - Help sponsor village wide community outreach and education programs, sensitization, STI/HIV testing, and follow up 
• $ 300 UVP Scholarship Fund for HIV orphans - Sponsor an Orphan for a Year  
• $ 600 Safe Water Systems - Sponsor 1/2 of a community safe water well  
• $ 1,200 Safe Water Systems - Sponsor a community safe water well

** Donations may be used for other costs associated with internship. Please view fund raising requirement breakdown here**: http://www.ugandavillageproject.org/get-involved/summer-internships/program-fee/

TO MAKE A TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION OF ANY AMOUNT to UVP's programming:

• Make out a check to Uganda Village Project* and give to Anupama so she can mail to UVP in bulk 
• If easier, mail to: 
• Uganda Village Project,
  c/o Andrew Lowe,
  2632 42nd Ave West,
  Seattle, WA 98199

• Visit http://www.razoo.com/story/Anupamainuganda , a group donation site, to donate online and see Anupama's progress and the progress of all interns!

* Please write "Intern Anupama Mehrotra" on the check's memo line.

TO MAKE A DONATION FOR ANUPAMA'S PERSONAL TRIP:
This includes immunizations, visa, airplane tickets and other travel fees. (Until goal of $1,500 for Uganda Village Project is met, all personal trip donations will be put towards program costs)

• Hit the donate button below or on the bottom of the side bar to pay with credit card through paypal

Thank you for your time. Please feel free to contact me or call Uganda Village Project at 860-748-5358 if you have any questions.

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