Bicycles for community Volunteers
Bicycles are urgently needed for the health workers who always have to travel 15-20 km to provide health services in the rural communities. These health workers are Volunteers, and HOPE Ofiriha provides them with bicycles to help them to do their job.
We accept donations in these units: $5, $10, $20, $30, $40, $50, $100, etc.
$ 78 pays for one bicycle
$ 780 pays for 10 bicycles
Integrated Vegetable and Livestock
Funds are needed to set up two integrated vegetable gardens — one at the primary school, and other for women’s group in Onura Sub Boma. These gardens will be an example to teach the community about improved food security and improved nutrition.
We accept donations in these units: $5,$10,$20,$30,$50,$100, etc.
$ 10 pays for one-shovel
$ 50 pays for one-goat
$ 3000 pays for seeds, equipment, livestock, and training
Tree Planting
Trees in Omilling sub Boma are being cut down at an alarming rate. An area of forest the size of a foot ball pitch is being down every day. This tree planting project is centered in Onura – sub community in an area of 5,000 sq km the size of local Juba football pitch. Our goal is to set up 500 community tree nurseries each growing 10,000 trees per year. In 2010 we will open 4 community tree nurseries each growing 10,000 tree seedlings. By March 2010 we are starting to plant seedlings. By the end of this year we will raise 40,000 tree seedlings in 4 community tree nurseries and there are 250 volunteers working on this project. Even though the main objective of the project is to rehabilitate the deforested areas the eucalyptus tree is useful for construction as well for fuel. It grows rapidly and the community can use it as a cash crop as well. We will be planting a combination of indigenous trees to add to new species of trees. In addition to tree planting we will be involved in environmental awareness campaigns.
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Fuel-Efficient Wood Clay Stoves
In Onura-sub community 100 % of the population depends on firewood for cooking. There is always been an abundance of wood and practically the families are using a three stone fire cooker. This consists of three bricks on which to balance a cooking pot on and the logs are placed between these stones. This is useless way of using the energy and the family of 8 people would burn 500 small trees each year. We are setting up women’s groups to make fuel-efficient wood burning clay stoves. The clay stove has many advantages. First, they use one third of the fire wood reducing the annual usage of a family to 200 small trees per year. Secondly, they produce less smoke which has a major health benefit. Thirdly, they cook quicker. And finally, they are portable.
We are in the process of setting up 500 women’s group who will potentially make 100,000 units each year which will save 2 million trees. This project will not only have a huge benefit for the environment but it will also provide sustainable incomes to local women of Onura sub- village Sudan.
We need to raise funds for this project and if you can help with your tax deductible donation at Globalgiving click (Donate Now!)
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Fruit Growing Project
Our aim is to establish a fruit tree nursery at Onura – sub village with a local greenhouse for grafting and budding. And we would also grow fruit trees in some of the community tree nurseries. We will also extend the fruit growing project all over Omilling rural communities.
In the past years the community has been growing pawpaws but they lack the knowledge needed to make use of these fruits better. We hope that this fruit growing trees will provide valuable income generation from the sale of the seedlings and eventually the sale of fruit. We have been holding a very interesting meeting with the people at Onura sub village, and gave them the pawpaw fruits we purchased from a supermarket in Kampala. Most people here never saw pawpaw juice in the canned before.
Our goal is for the communities to be able to grow large, juicy orange, and banana trees in the future to reduce poverty. We have already organized the purchased of bud wood from improved orange and tangerine trees to be budded on the hardy lemon stock.
This is a very worthwhile project and we need funding to run this project to reduce poverty at Omilling rural communities.
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