HELP International

To help kids like Ivan, we are building a new classroom building at HELP Primary School. Ivan is one of the 250 children living and working on the streets of Masese that with your help, we can bring back into the classroom and give them a chance to succeed. Can you help us make Ivan’s dream a reality?

Help us bring 250-300 children into the classroom

We know we can help change the fortunes of children like Ivan, and our generous funders agree. That’s why a group of HELP Primary School supporters are matching every dollar donated to this campaign till we reach our target of $100,000.

Help us keep the progress moving forward for the hundreds of girls and boys that we are preparing to live a productive life and develop their communities.

What your donation supports:

The Need:

We want to build on our success. The success of our first building campaign has encouraged us to expand our efforts to the many who are still in need; street kids begging in the streets and searching through trash heaps for food, unemployed adults needing training to develop skills that will lead to secure employment, and women seeking a trade to support their single parent households.

The Goal:

Our goal is to enroll 250-300 more children in the HELP Primary School and increase the number of vocational opportunities on our campus. To support this objective, we will need to employ more teachers and build another building. We have been very fortunate that a donor help fund this goal by challenging us to a $100,000 matching gift.

Our Past:

Since 2009 we have been cultivating a movement to break the cycle of poverty, illiteracy and hunger for the present and future generations of the refugee village of Masese, Uganda. In 2009 we started the HELP Primary school with 39 students and 1 teacher. Currently we educate 550 students supporting grades nursery to primary 7 and offer training courses to adults from tailoring to computer application certifications. Over these 14 years, we have saved over 800 kids by providing daily nutritious meals, medical care and education. The proof of our success is that 250 students have graduated and gone on to secondary or vocational schools. We are a 501(c)(3) public charity focused on eradicating poverty through education. We employ over 30 Ugandans in our project.

Did you know that in Uganda, one nurse takes care of an estimated 11,000 patients?

Did you know that many women in Uganda cannot afford prenatal care because it costs 25 cents a visit?

Did you know that in Uganda, mothers die 10x times more often during childbirth than in the United States and 84x times more often than in Germany?

We are a team of executive students at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and want to help! We strongly believe that everyone has a right to quality healthcare, so we have partnered with H.E.L.P. International - a 501c3 humanitarian aid organization focused on building self sustainable communities - to bring medical care to the most vulnerable mothers in the town of Masese.

Over the past few weeks, we have met with the organization's founders and their only local nurse - Olive - to brainstorm ideas and implement a sustainable strategy to fight maternal death rates. We learned that Olive works long hours every day to look after the community's children and their mothers, but lacks basic supplies to provide reliable care. While Olive holds her initial nursing license, she is also extremely passionate about returning to school for additional skills. However, at $900 a semester (that's about twice the average annual salary in Uganda!), this remains an unattainable dream for her.

Through this fundraiser, we hope to raise enough money to make the following plans a reality:

Our goal is to provide the community with a solid skillset that can be sustained with minimal international support and that will improve the overall health of expecting mothers and their unborn children for decades to come.

Please consider contributing a few dollars to this cause - every cent makes a difference in the fight for global health equity. Best of all, a very generous donor has offered to match the first $1000 of donations.

TOGETHER, WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD!!!

Update:

We are grateful to announce that a group of donors has decided to cover the cost of the land. We are currently searching for the appropriate property. More to come! (*)

I'm raising money to benefit vulnerable children in Uganda. Their brilliant future is waiting for your contribution!

I am the founder and General Director of StarsUganda. An organization that began 5 years ago saving the lives of over 100 children. We are financially independent of Help International but fiscally we are under their umbrella.

STARSUGANDA is committed to rescuing vulnerable children in Uganda under the age of six and helping them and their families transition into well-empowered and productive human life.

Currently, our home is rented and not appropriate for small children. Our objective is to build our own home in a suitable land to raise our children.

Our research determined USD 300,000 (*) as the appropriate amount to build and furnish our home. This amount breaks down as follows:

Even though this might seem like a big mountain to climb, we believe it is possible through your generosity. There are no small donations, every penny counts, and it is tax-deductible.

How StarsUganda rescue children and empower families?

We do so by providing them with a safe and loving transition home where every child receives proper nutrition, healthcare, emotional and physical therapy, and education.

In addition, we empower families to provide for their children by offering training programs in tailoring, hair styling, computing, micro-loans, among others.

If you are not able to donate money at this time, please help us spread the word. Share our “GoFundMe” information. Tell your friends and families about the great StarsUganda mission.

Thank you for helping us to change the lives of the most vulnerable in Uganda. You can enable us to build our own house, one brick at a time!

StarsUganda, "Rescuing Children and empowering families"

Please watch this video and for more information visit our website: starsuganda.org

Thank you,

Morella Carta