The Global Uplift Project’s current projects and gifts
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Country
Project Name
Project
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Cost
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Uganda
27520
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TGUP's partner in Uganda is seeking funding to construct a 50'x70' building to hull, process, and store coffee beans. Funding of the processing equipment has already been secured through a Rotary grant. 50% of the profits from the coffee business will be used to support the Save a Girl kit production at the nearby sewing center.
Multiple Countries
25000
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More than 20 million girls drop out of school every year because they can't manage their period. It is probably the greatest preventable loss of human potential in the world. TGUP’s Save a Girl Project addresses this by providing kits of washable, reusable, sanitary supplies. Each kit is given free of charge to the girls.
Kenya
38797
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This is one of 9 projects planned for Irigithathi Mixed Day Primary School in Naro Moru, Kenya. This project will fund a boy's dormitory for 20 Special Needs students. Twenty bunk beds are being funded separately so the school can expand their boarding capacity at a later time. All students are treated equally at Irigithathi.
Nepal
2400
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Chamunda Secondary School has 2,159 students, 36 teachers, & is located in Kathmandu. They teach Biology, Chemistry, Physics, & Astronomy but their science lab lacks suffient equipment and supplies for such a large student body. This project will install a TGUP Science Lab in a Box so they have what is needed to do experiments.
Uganda
11388
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This second Uplift a Village project for the the Dambwe community will install a water well, latrines, swings, electricity to the school, provide a repayable loan to a women’s cooperative, establish a “Garden of Eatin”, and distribute 200 Save a Girl™ hygiene kits to adolescent girls at the Divine Primary School.
Kenya
12854
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The current kitchen at Irigithathi is no way sufficient for all the students, and will be especially lacking once the 60 additional Special Needs students start school. This project will fund a large new kitchen capable of serving 300 students a day. Another project will fund the cooking jikos and adjoining dining hall.
Kenya
5830
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To go with the new kitchen (funded separately), this project will install two cooking jikos. One will be a single chamber and the other a double system that allows for two things to be cooked simultaneously. The new jikos will allow the cooks to prepare food for the entire school of 300+ students and staff.
Kenya
22338
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The project will fund an adjacent addition to the new kitchen (funded separately) for the Irigithathi School that will accommodate 100 students at a time. Also being funded in another project are the tables and chairs for the new dining hall.
Kenya
5102
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TGUP is funding 9 projects for Irigithathi School, including a new kitchen, storage room, and adjoining dining hall. This project will fund furniture for the new dining hall including ten tables (8'x4') and 22 benches. The new dining hall will accommodate 100 students at each meal service.
Kenya
4719
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This project will pay for 20 sets of double bunk beds and a single bed for the dorm father to equip the new boys' dormitory that TGUP is funding for the Irigithathi School. The current plan is to admit 30 new Special Needs boys, but the bed capacity will allow for 40 for future enrollment.
Nepal
2400
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Padma Kanya is an all girls Secondary School near Kathmandu with 250 girls and 45 teachers. They teach Microbiology, Physics, and Chemistry. But their lab has insufficient supplies and equipment for all to participate. This project funds the installation of TGUP's Science Lab in a Box.
Tanzania
3900
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Women in the Oloipiri Subvillage walk 5 hours each day, with their donkeys, to fetch water. A hand-dug water hole has exposed a natural underground spring. This water will be pumped through a series of tanks and treated so it will be potable. Details of the system are in the attached. TGUP is funding 50% of the project.
Kenya
7282
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The Special Needs students at Irigithathi School need paved walkways for their wheelchairs and crutches. It is currently difficult to walk if there is any rain, resulting in mud and slippery walking. This project will lay cement walkways between the classrooms, new dorms, kitchen, and dining areas.
Tanzania
3300
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The Loiborsiret Secondary School has 400 students but the kitchen is just an open air shack. The conditions are dangerous and unsanitary, with livestock and rodents frequently interrupting the cooking. This project will build a new secure kitchen with preparation areas and storage for food items.
Kenya
38797
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There are 9 projects planned for Irigithathi Mixed Day Primary School in Naro Moru, Kenya. This project will fund a girls' dormitory for 20 Special Needs girls. Twenty bunk beds, allowing for a total of 40 girls, are being funded separately so the school can expand their boarding capacity at a later time.
Gifts
Multiple Countries
$6
Save a Girls
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Save a Girls
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$6 provides one adolescent girl with washable reusable sanitary supplies so she can manage her period and stay in school. Each kit lasts for three years and is given free to adolescent girls along with education on the use of the kit, feminine hygiene, self defense, and both male and female biology.
Tanzania
$100
Smoke-reducing stoves
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Smoke-reducing stoves
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$100 will fund the construction and installation (done by Maasai women) of a smoke-reducing stove for a Maasai family in Tanzania. The stoves benefit the health of the entire community, but particularly the children for whom the smoke causes lung problems, burns, and even death.
Kenya
$90
Beehives
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Beehives
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A $90 beehive provides pollination to boost crop yields 2–4x. Each hive comes with a personalized plaque naming the person honored and will be installed on a farm, at a school, or in a village in Kenya. The honey from hives is sold to support local farmers, schools, and the hive upkeep.
Tanzania
$20
Birthing kits
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Birthing kits
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Maasai women give birth in their homes often in unsanitary conditions. These $20 kits are given free to pregnant women, and include a plastic drape over which the birth takes place, razor and clamps for cutting the cord, antibiotics for cord stem and eyes, wash basin & soap, blankets, gloves & gowns for midwives and washcloths.
Uganda
$10
Hygiene kits
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Hygiene kits
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These $10 hygiene kits are given to school children in need in Uganda. Each kit contains a toothbrush, toothpaste, comb, nail clippers, soap, wash cloth, and tube of vaseline. All the items are contained in a mesh carrying bag.
Multiple Countries
$25
Shoess
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Shoess
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Over 1.5 billion people suffer from soil transmitted diseases worldwide. Without shoes, children are especially vulnerable to diseases and parasites. These 'shoes that grow' can expand through 5 sizes and keep children healthy and allow them to go to school and only cost $25 per pair.
Multiple Countries
$5
School suppliess
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School suppliess
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Many school children in African countries are prohibited from going to school because they don't have the required basic supplies: pens, pencils, etc. This project provides one school child with the needed supplies so they can stay in school. It only costs $5 to give the required materials.