Welcome Back to Uganda - Project Video

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Take a tour of the sites and meet the people that you have helped with your generous donations!

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Please forgive our oversight - We missed crediting the following people for their donations in the video:

SO THANK YOU TO:

MONICA MARTIN

JOE KELLY

BARABARA WASILEWSKI

MICHEL JOHNSON

JULIE LECLERC

MICHELLE SAVARD et MIVILLE LECLERC

MICHELLE LECLERC ET JEAN-PIERRE REY

JEAN-NICOLAS BOUCHER

SYLVIE CARRIER

MARILOU LEVAC GAGNON

IRIS TREMBLAY, MIREILLE AUDET

So here we are, exactly 22 hours from our departure from Uganda. The eight months Denise and I have spent here have been some of the most rewarding yet. This, in large part, is thanks to your support, be it monetary or otherwise. We could not have done it without you, nor could you have done it without us...We got a lot to be proud of!

It was an ambitious idea to begin with, and with the overwhelming support we received, it turned into something BIG. Together, between late November and late February, we raised around 15,000 USD! No small feat. Now what to do with all that money???

In the end, we built 14 rainwater harvesting tanks, held four intensive trainings on tank management as well as hygiene and sanitation and renovated Kanaa's home which was as close as it gets to collapsing (Kaana is the young woman in the fund raising video "Stick by Stick" who at 14, must take care of her blind mother and numerous siblings). We also bought some iron sheets for the house of another orphan, Kuvo (age 12).

The rainwater tanks include four of 20,000 liters in capacity and one of 10,000, built at three primary schools, one high school, and one orphanage learning center. The remaining nine tanks were all of 4,000 liters in capacity and were constructed in two villages. They were built by the 12 villagers, all of whom were subsistence farmers, we trained to become skilled masons. A new skill has been left behind in the communities and womens savings groups established so that in a couple years' time, our masons will have found work, and other households safe water.


If you are interested in seeing the whole process, please view the video above, it is worth it! On the behalf of Denise and myself, and on that of the 1,500 lives you have changed, thanks again.