Projects

Current Projects

Smile Village Driving and Mechanics

The young people of the Smile Village Academy need to learn to drive and to maintain vehicles as this will enhance their opportunities to find work and make a living as they reach adulthood. This fund raiser will enable the village to purchase a suitable car to replace the old

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Smile Village Maize Mill

The Smile Village grows a range of crops on a 7 acre plot of land nearby. One of the crops grown is maize, and a mill is needed in order to create the flour needed for baking at the Children’s Charity Village where 400 children are educated and fed each

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Sewing Machines for Smile Village

The Smile Village Skills Training Academy has been equipping young people to become tailors and dressmakers since it was founded in 2019. At that time, Projects Delivering Hope provided a machine for each student to use, but these now need to be replaced. 25 new manual machines will cost just

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Smile Village Bread Oven

Smile Children’s Charity Village in Uganda is in need of a large bread oven. Heated by charcoal, it will be used to teach baking skills to young people, and to bake many loaves of bread to help feed the 400 children and students who attend school and training courses there

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Completed Projects

Smile Academy Skills Training 2026

Smile Academy is part of the Smile Charity Village where small children are given a home and an education, and young people are trained in skills such as tailoring, hairdressing, mechanics and driving.   Following on from our 2024 Skills Training project we have funded a further 35 students.

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Pig Rearing

We have set up a pilot project with 6 single mothers or grandmothers who have returned to Kajo-Keji from the refugee camps, and are struggling with livelihood to support their children or grandchildren in their schooling. Each of the women received 2 piglets, with a shelter and all the necessary feed and equipment. The

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Village Savings and Loans Associations

Based on the success of a community savings project set up in 2019 we have now enabled a further 12 Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA’s) by providing each of them with saving kits and offering business training for small scale business owners in Kajo-Keji. This is a financial empowerment

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In Memory of Denise

In November 2025, our long-term supporter and dear friend Denise, sadly passed away after a short illness and her family kindly invited donations in her memory to be given to Projects Delivering Hope in support of our projects.  In 2019, Denise joined us on a trip to Uganda, where we

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Poultry for Christmas

The Mothers Union in the Diocese of Kajo Keji is setting up Poultry Projects in 5 parishes. Each project includes the construction of a 3m x 10m chicken house with surrounding enclosure together with feed & feeders, drinkers & vaccines. Chicks will be reared and sold for a profit and

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Jalimo Boma

In February Bishop James informed us that military confrontation in Julio Boma resulted in 15 families being left homeless after their houses had been burned down. They were sleeping under trees without access to shelter, food, clothing, cooking utensils and other essential supplies. PDH Trustees joined others to provide an

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Brick Making 2025

Kajo-Keji Christian College teaches theology, management & education courses in South Sudan. With around 230 students, financing the running costs, staff salaries, equipment and food are a constant challenge. With many returning refugees returning needing basic homes, the college has identified an income generating project and we have agreed to

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Smile Academy Skills Training 2025

We are excited to be partnering with the Smile Academy in Uganda once again in sponsoring young South Sudanese and Ugandan people to learn a trade. The course will provide them with the skills, training and tools they need to set up businesses in Catering, Construction, Driving, Mechanics, Tailoring and

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Poultry Project 2025

The Mothers Union in the Diocese of Kajo Keji is setting up Poultry Projects in 5 parishes. Each project includes the construction of a 3m x 10m chicken house with surrounding enclosure together with feed & feeders, drinkers & vaccines. Chicks will be reared and sold for a profit and

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Wheelchair Provision

During our March visit to PDH partner The Smile Village in Uganda this year, we met Joseph and his mum Suzan. Both had serious mobility problems; Joseph’s legs are paralysed and he only has the use of one arm. Suzan can only move around bent double on all four limbs. 

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Smile Clinic Nurse

We are raising £1,200 to fund the cost of employing a nurse at the Smile Children’s Charity Village and Academy. They look after 400 children in the school and 40 young people in the training academy.

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Smile Village Motorbike

This is Ivan. He is the deputy director of the Smile Children’s Charity Village in Uganda. When we visited in March he was cycling 15 miles each way to work through the bush on rough tracks. Thanks to some generous supporters, we have now supplied the Smile Village with a

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Hoe Hoe Hoe!

Many of the South Sudanese people who fled to refugee camps in Uganda to escape the civil war in 2017 are now returning to their homes. Rations in the refugee camps have been reduced to an unstainable level and by returning home they will be supported by the Diocese of

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