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Organization: Uganda Village Project

Based in: United States,   US EIN #: 26-3025897
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Quick Facts

We envision a future in which local Ugandans in the Iganga District will have the tools and the means to effectively create and facilitate their own health and development solutions using international human and technological resources.

The Uganda Village Project is a nonprofit organization that collaborates with diverse partners on the design of sustainable rural health and development solutions through networking, advocacy and project innovation in Iganga District.

Focus Areas: Children, Economic Development, Education, Health, Poverty, Gender & Equality
Countries Served: Uganda

Background

Date Founded: 2003
Number of Staff: 45

Description of Services:
Our safe water program provides clean water in rural Iganda villages, usually through community-constructed shallow wells.

Our orphan program supports the education of 14 secondary schoolers and 2 university students.

Our Healthy Villages program encompasses a variety of programs that address nutrition, safe motherhood and family planning, village sanitation and hygiene, obstetric fistula, HIV/AIDS, eye health, and malaria. Through Healthy Villages we also train and support Village Health Teams (VHTs) and build capacity at local, government health centers.
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Additional Information

Additional Background Information:
Healthy Villages is an innovative, grassroots approach to addressing rural healthcare and public health in Uganda. Its goal is to improve the provision of healthcare and of preventative health education to underserved populations across rural Iganga District. Though Healthy Villages we target the primary health risks of the region at a village-by village-level, working always with the District Health Office (DHO) of Iganga, with Sub-County officials, and with local Health Center staff.
Local Partners:
Iganga District Water Office, Iganga District Health Office, Uganda Red Cross, Kamuli Mission Hospital, PSI Uganda (Pace), St. Mary's
Additional Affiliations:
Global Health Council, ChooseANeed, Facebook Causes, Sight Savers International, Uganda Childbirth Injuries Fund

Officers & Board

President:
Alison Hayward
Director Phone: 860-748-5358
Development Director:
Fyfe Strachan
Fundraising Chair
Phone: 61) 413991829
Volunteer Coordinator:
Kyla Holcomb
Internships Coordinator
Phone: 303-819-6721
Board of Directors and Board of Advisors:
Alison Hayward, MD, Director
Lawrence Mumbe, Assistant Director
Fyfe Strachan, Fundraising Chair
Andrew Lowe, Treasurer
John Perra, Publicity Chair
Kyla Holcomb, Internships Coordinator
Kathleen Bongiovanni, Member At Large
Bruce Cormack, Member at Large
Mohamed (Medie) Mukalu, Member at Large
Leah Bevis, Member At Large

Contact Information

Address:
2632 42nd Ave West
Seattle , WA 98199
United States
Phone: 860-748-5358
Fax:
Web: http://www.ugandavillageproject.org

Photos
Mothers waiting with their children at a clinic
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A Little Boy And His "Tippy Tap"
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Happy Holidays from Uganda Village Project!
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A Ugandan Mother and Her Child
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Visiting interns do a handwashing demonstration
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$200 - Combat HIV/AIDS and STIs
$25 - Educate Children
$600 - Provide Safe Water to Rural Families - Build Half of a Well
$20 - Fight Malaria
$100 - Give Vision to the Blind - Help Dozens of Villagers
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