Uplift a Village (UaV) is a collaborative project between three nonprofits to improve life chances for people in rural Uganda. The nonprofits are The Melissa Prandi Children Foundation (MPCF), in Uganda, the Nsawo Community Development Project (NCDP), and The Global Uplift Project (TGUP).

Uplift a Village attains its goal of helping people by improving physical, vocational, and educational infrastructure in their villages. All people, no matter where they live, have a desire to improve themselves. But without essential services, or tools, this is often impossible.

The infrastructure elements that Uplift a Village targets include water systems  (essential to life), education (essential to growth), electricity (essential to productivity), gardening skills (for food), vocational training (for lifelong employment), and more. With these systems in place, the human desire for self-improvement can be realized. Without them, it cannot.

The three collaborators have extensive experience in delivering these types of infrastructure. MPCF, in San Rafael, CA, has sponsored college scholarships for dozens of girls and implemented many vocational training centers in some of the poorest slums of Uganda.

NCDP, in Uganda, has worked with both MPCF and TGUP on a variety of projects. It has built classrooms, water systems, latrines, and delivers washable, reusable sanitary kits to adolescent girls so they can stay in school.

TGUP has completed more than 450 small-scale infrastructure projects in 25 of the poorest countries in the world, including in Uganda. TGUP is the inventor of the Save a Girl ™ sanitary kit that MPCF has funded and that NCDP makes and distributes to thousands of girls in Uganda.

Uplift a Village targets a new scale of recipient for development assistance. Most development projects target individuals, or small-scale institutions, such as schools. By focusing on a higher-level recipient—an entire village—UaV catalyzes the collaborative energy of many thousands of people, all working for their own individual and common well-being.

People who have been helped with water, can then help those receiving help with food, who can then help those receiving vocational training, and so on. This enlists much more cumulative energy for self-improvement than happens when only one of those elements have been provided. It also recognizes the essentially collective nature of community improvement.