Rachel – Projects Delivering Hope https://projectsdeliveringhope.org.uk Sat, 20 Jan 2024 00:58:06 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://projectsdeliveringhope.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/heart-gradient-dove-sharp-icon-square.png Rachel – Projects Delivering Hope https://projectsdeliveringhope.org.uk 32 32 Seeds for Life Christmas Appeal https://projectsdeliveringhope.org.uk/seeds-for-life/ Tue, 15 Nov 2022 13:24:36 +0000 https://projectsdeliveringhope.org.uk/?p=2317 This project is now complete! We have raised over £3,900 to enable refugee families to return home to South Sudan and become self-sufficient again]]>

Seeds for Life
Christmas Appeal

Seeds are the gift that keeps on giving year after year
This project is now complete.

Projects Delivering Hope has raised over £3,900 to provide seeds and hand tools for refugee families to rebuild their lives as they return home.

Help us raise £3,500 to provide seeds & hand tools

This will enable up to 200 refugee families to return home to South Sudan
and become self-sufficient again

As refugees in Uganda for over 4 years, conditions have become more difficult with food rations cuts by 30%. More and more people are returning from Uganda to Kajo Keji in South Sudan to find their homes and land ransacked. We urgently need to raise funds to provide them with seeds and hand tools to restart their crops and become self-sufficient again.

We want to provide up to 200 families with seeds to grow Beans, Nuts, Casava and Maize so that they can plant them in time for the 2023 rainfall.This Christmas appeal follows the successful project which we launched in 2020 which you can read about here. 

]]> Smile Children’s Charity Village https://projectsdeliveringhope.org.uk/smile-childrens-charity-village/ https://projectsdeliveringhope.org.uk/smile-childrens-charity-village/#respond Sat, 17 Jul 2021 11:21:20 +0000 https://projectsdeliveringhope.org.uk/?p=1679 This project is now complete! We are delighted to support this charity who help orphaned refugee children and provide them with food, water tanks and fences.]]>

Smile Children’s Charity Village

A charity which looks after and trains orphaned refugee children in practical life skills 
This project is now complete.

Projects Delivering Hope has supported the Smile Children’s Charity Village to sustain itself by raising £10,600 to set up a chicken farm and enable 32 young people to train in hairdressing or tailoring and provide the tailors with sewing machines upon graduation. 

Hairdressing & Tailoring Training – Update

Thanks to your support, we have raised £4,800 to enable refugee orphaned girls to train in tailoring and hairdressing with 25 becoming tailors and 7 will be hairdressers. This included their full-board, lodging and essential start-up materials. Practical skills training started on 14th February and runs for 9 months. Our donations enabled 15 sewing machines to be purchased along with hairdressing kits. Many of the girls are young mothers who dropped out of school and have said:
“We feel like this is a real turning point in our lives!”

 Chicken Farm – Update

Thanks to your support, we raised £4800 to buy 1000 chickens. This included shelters, food and labour for the chickens. The eggs can be used to feed the orphans and also sold as additional income. The farm will help the Smile Children’s Charity Village sustain itself going forward.


What is the Smile Children’s Charity Village? 

  • This is a home for South Sudanese young people orphaned while they were refugees. 
  • The village was set up recently by Francis Candiga to train vulnerable and orphaned refugee children of all ages in practical life skills that will enable them to eventually earn their own living. 
  • In addition to basic food and accommodation, training is provided in sustainable life and business skills such as hairdressing and tailoring. 
  • Each student will graduate with new skills, some equipment and a small fund to help them set up their new business. 
Who is Francis Candiga? 
  • Francis is one of the most extraordinary people we, at Projects Delivering Hope, have come across. For all his working life, he has worked with vulnerable South Sudanese children that have been caught up in unimaginably difficult situations. 
  • Francis’ ambition is that activities such as chicken farming will enable the Smile Children’s Charity Village to completely sustain itself going forward. 
Your donation, no matter how small or large will make a huge difference to these wonderful young people!

Projects Delivering Hope previously contributed to the provision of food, fencing and water tanks for the Smile Children’s Charity Village
]]> https://projectsdeliveringhope.org.uk/smile-childrens-charity-village/feed/ 0 Home Vegetable Garden Project https://projectsdeliveringhope.org.uk/home-vegetable-garden-project/ Fri, 16 Jul 2021 16:16:58 +0000 https://projectsdeliveringhope.org.uk/?p=1631 This project is now complete! An exciting new project to address the food shortage in the Ugandan refugee camps and equip young mothers from the diocese of Kajo-Keji with valuable skills of urban farming. ]]>

Home Vegetable Gardens Project

This project is now complete.

Thanks to your help, we have raised £2,000 to equip young mothers from Kajo-Keji with valuable life skills of urban farming and help address the food shortage in the Ugandan refugee camps.

What is the Vegetable Gardens Project?

This project will mobilise and train 100 young mothers in vegetable gardening so they can establish small businesses, selling vegetables as well as feeding their families. It will make use of the small plots of land provided by the United Nations in the Ugandan refugee camps.

What will the project achieve?

  • Much needed food for 1000s of South Sudanese people in refugee camps.
  • An income for 100 women
  • Equip women in urban farming, providing useful life skills
  • Empower women with entrepreneurial skills, as they work together and establish savings group

How can you help?

We are raising £2000 to provide farming training and buy vegetable seeds like
spinach, tomatoes, onions, green peppers, peas and carrots.

]]> Charcoal Bread Ovens – Phase 2 https://projectsdeliveringhope.org.uk/charcoal-bread-ovens-phase-2/ Fri, 16 Jul 2021 05:26:00 +0000 https://projectsdeliveringhope.org.uk/?p=1626 This project is now complete! Following the success of our bread ovens project in 2019, we want to provide a further 10 bread ovens to enable more people to make a living for their families by selling bread.]]>

Charcoal Bread Ovens – Phase 2

This project is now complete.

Thanks to your generous donations, we have provided £3,500 to buy another 10 bread ovens to enable more people to make a living for their families by selling bread. 
 
Projects Delivering Hope has now provided a total of 20 bread ovens to help the South Sudanese!

Bread is such an important part of the diet for millions of people around the world. We have been asked to raise £3,500 for the purchase of another 10 charcoal bread ovens for South Sudanese women’s community groups. These will enable the women not only to bake bread for their own families, but also to sell it and make enough money to buy the ingredients and charcoal for the next batch.

]]> Seeds Appeal https://projectsdeliveringhope.org.uk/seeds-appeal/ Sat, 07 Nov 2020 22:24:18 +0000 https://projectsdeliveringhope.org.uk/?p=1145 This project is now complete! Seeds are the gift that keeps on giving. Thanks to your support, we have been able to provide £8,500 to help the South Sudanese have a better 2021 as they return home by providing seeds, tools and farming training. ]]>

Seeds Appeal

Seeds are the gift that keeps on giving year after year

This project is now complete.

Thanks to your generous donations, we have provided £8,500 to buy seeds and hand tools to help the South Sudanese refugees become self-sufficient again. 

Update – October 2021

At a time when food is scarce in South Sudan, it is great to see the Seeds Project delivered earlier this year, now bearing fruit! Below you can see just some of the people who have benefited from this project, and the positive feedback Projects Delivering Hope has received. 

Pena Moses, Farmer in Limi Boma
First harvest of his produce of white bold pea nuts
John Kariti
Weeding his bean garden
Peter Jekwat, Farmer in Limi
Winnowing his bean seeds after harvesting
Ngolija Simon
Prepares maize after harvest
Tongu Amos
Harvesting maize
Ngolija Simon
Sorting ground nuts before storage
Pena Moses, Farmer in Limi Boma
Weeding his garden of beans
Here are some quotes from some people who have benefited from the Seeds Project

“Thank you for the support for the first harvest of ground nuts. I’m expecting a bean harvest in the coming months and have ground nut seeds for the next season… may God bless the donors”,
Pena Moses, a farmer from Limi Boma

“I am happy I can get maize grains to feed my family and store some seeds for next planting season”
Kiden, a farmer from Gbongoroko, Kinyiba  

“I’m very happy for what has been done. I urge all those who have benefited to focus on sustaining what we have started….I am getting ready to prepare land by January 2022 and I encourage others to do the same if we are to realise good produce next year”
Tongu Amos  

“I have harvested my ground nuts and maize. I am very happy I will not need to buy seeds next year as I’m going to store some of my produce.”
Ngolija Simon  

Seeds Project – the background

Many South Sudanese refugees are returning home and we urgently need to raise funds to provide them with seeds and hand tools to become self-sufficient again.

As refugees in Uganda for the last 3 years, conditions have become more difficult with food rations cut by 30%. 78,000 people have now returned from Uganda to Kajo Keji in South Sudan and many have no support and have to rebuild their lives from scratch.

We want to provide families with seeds to grow Beans, Nuts, Casava and Maize so that they can plant them in time for the 2021 rainfall. We are raising money to buy the seeds, transport them to Kajo Keji and provide training to promote good farming practices.

Please help by donating!
Your donation represents a long term investment

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