Uncategorized – Projects Delivering Hope

Village Savings and Loans Associations

Hannah — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:11:20 +0000

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 project for both men and women groups (15-25 members) to enable them to acquire easy to access loans to boost their business initiatives. The members of the groups will acquire small, self-managed loans from the common pooled funds (savings). The members might decide to save for a year and distribute (share-off) their savings/profits for that year’s cycle. In other groups, the members may buy some shares or take loans (as agreed by the group) and repayment is normally done with small interest.

The groups are supported with a start-up kit including:

Lockbox – a secure container for storing members’ savings (Cash and shares) during meetings.
Calculator – for calculating savings, loans, and profits (to promote transparency)
Membership Cards and Passbooks – for each member to track their savings and transactions
Ledgers/Record Books: – this is the overall management group records – depending on how the group set it up
$50 per group start up fund.

The cost of this project was $5,600 and was funded entirely from PDH general reserves.

Poultry for Christmas

Hannah — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 20:02:36 +0000

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 the money raised used to purchase further chicks until capacity is reached. Once established, the women will form Community Savings Groups from which individual woman will be able to borrow money to fund their own small businesses, providing themselves with a means of support.

Projects Delivering Hope has already funded the first two parish projects. With our 2025 Christmas Appeal, we are aiming to fund the next two poultry projects at £2,700 each.

Business Training and Savings Groups

Tom Burholt — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 11:52:37 +0000

Business Training and Savings Groups

In July 2019 we took a team of business people to Morobi Refugee Camp where 80 delegates from the local business community attended every day. Businesses of all types were represented from shops selling general household goods to welders, builders, caterers, mobile phone chargers and nut oil producers to name a few!

The Microfinance Savings Groups that were formed following the business training workshops have grown from strength to strength.

Under the guidance and training of the local PDH funded facilitator, Lokose, there are now 9 savings groups with 240 members!! Since July 2019 over £4,600 has been saved by the groups. Around half of this has been lent out to help local businesses to start up, buy stock or expand,

A great result and well done to Lokose for his hard work.

Please help us to raise the money needed to continue the good work of the facilitator beyond next year.

Alternatively, if you are interested in joining one of our Business Training Workshops, please do let us know via the contact page as we are taking names ready for when the pandemic finally eases.