Achieving 100% overhead self-sufficiency will enable us expand our work to new new rural communities anytime, run our work with continuity, and spend 100% of the money that we raise from our charitable supporters on inputs for those farmers who need a hand-up.
With 100% overhead self-sufficiency, we will be able to expand our work to new rural communities anytime, operate with continuity, and spend 100% of the money that we raise from our charitable supporters on inputs for those farmers who need a hand-up.
Achieving 100% overhead self-sufficiency will give us the capacity to expand our work and reach new rural farmers anytime, run our work with continuity, and spend 100% of the money that we raise from our charitable supporters on inputs for our target farmers.
And now, with our new goal of expanding our sorghum project to cover every village in Kamuli & Buyende, a region 2 times the size of London, our overheads will be even higher. Help us put the UCF’s 12-acre premises to maximum use, using a combination of irrigation and permaculture approaches, to ensure that 100% of our overheads are covered by the UCF itself, i.e., from the income on our 12 acres. Total need: $99,680.
This facility will be installed by British firm Alvan Blanch, at a total cost of GBP 339,403 (see detailed Quote). If you have the means to cover this entire cost on our behalf, so Alvan Blanch can simply come to Uganda and install this facility for us, you can do so by sending that money directly to Alvan Blanch. Our contact people @Alvan Blanch who put together the above Quote are Ivan Erimu, James Shaw and Christabel Blanch.
Other ways you can help are: creating a GoFundMe to help us raise money for this facility, or by contributing via any of the methods on our Support Us page (including employee workplace giving). I will update this post once we have raised the needed support. For detailed information about Size of Long Island, please go to this page.
To this end, all we are asking you is to help us raise a one-off $99,860. Details here.
This facility will be installed by British firm Alvan Blanch. For details, including the total cost that Alvan Blanch has quoted for us, or how you can help, please go to this page.
This facility will be installed by British firm Alvan Blanch, at a total cost of GBP 339,403, which is $476,766 per local exchange rates in Uganda. Alvan Blanch has already given us a Quote detailing what this money . For more information, including how you can help, please go to this page.
If you have the wherewithal to pay off this entire cost on our behalf, so Alvan Blanch can simply come to Uganda and install this facility… you can do so by sending that money directly to Alvan Blanch. To see other ways you can help, go here.
With 100% overhead self-sufficiency, we will be able to expand our work to new rural communities anytime, run our work with continuity, and above all, spend 100% of the money that we raise from our charitable supporters on inputs for our target farmers.
This facility will be installed by British firm Alvan Blanch, at a total cost of GBP 339,403, which is $476,766 per local exchange rates in Uganda. Alvan Blanch has already given us a Quote that details what this money will be spent on. For details about 2 times the size of London, or people’s circumstances in our region, and how you can help, go here.
This facility will not only help with postharvest handling, or in building market linkages, but also, it will even help in making our overall work with rural farmers self-sustaining.
Currently, the UCF provides all our farmers with free initial inputs (seed, tarpaulins, and others), because many can’t afford them. This facility will change this by making many big buyers to view us as strategic partners, enabling our farmers to get better prices. This will give these farmers the self-motivation to produce more, and in turn, the ability to use their own incomes to secure the needed inputs, making our work self-sustaining.
The presence of this facility will also in itself be an assurance to all local farmers of the presence of a ready market (including those farmers whom the UCF hasn’t been supporting directly), giving them the self-urge to secure the needed inputs on their own — catalyzing our goal of covering every village in Kamuli/Buyende with white sorghum.
This facility will be installed by British firm Alvan Blanch, at a total cost of GBP 339,403, which is $476,766 per local exchange rates in Uganda. Alvan Blanch has already given us a detailed Quote. If you have the wherewithal to cover this entire cost on our behalf, so Alvan Blanch can simply come to Uganda and install this facility… you can do so by sending that money directly to Alvan Blanch. To see other ways you can help, go here.
This facility will be installed by British firm Alvan Blanch, at a total cost of GBP 339,403, which is $476,766 per local exchange rates in Uganda. Alvan Blanch has already given us a detailed Quote. If you have the wherewithal to pay off this entire cost on our behalf, so Alvan Blanch can simply come to Uganda and install this facility… you can do so by sending that money directly to Alvan Blanch. To see other ways you can help, go here.
Our contact people at Alvan Blanch (who prepared the above quote) are Ivan Erimu, James Shaw and Christabel Blanch.
what this money will be spent on. For details about 9 times the size of Gaza, or people’s circumstances in our region, and how you can help, go here.
As we begin 2024, I am asking you to help the UCF expand our white sorghum project to cover every village in our two neighboring districts of Kamuli & Buyende, in eastern Uganda, which together comprise 1,123 villages with an area of 3,300 sq km — 31 times the size of Paris — and are home to over a million people, and 165,000 households.
This facility will be installed by British firm Alvan Blanch, at a total cost of GBP 339,403, which is $476,766 per local exchange rates in Uganda. Alvan Blanch has already given us a Quote that details what this money will be spent on. For details about 2 times the size of London, or people’s circumstances in our region, and how you can help, go here.
And now, with our new goal of expanding our sorghum project to cover every village in Kamuli & Buyende, a region 2 times the size of London, our overheads will be even higher. Help us put the UCF’s 12-acre premises to maximum use, using a combination of irrigation and permaculture approaches, to ensure that 100% of our administrative overheads are covered by the UCF itself, i.e., from the income on our 12 acres.
Impact:
By achieving 100% overhead self-sufficiency, we will be able to expand our work to new rural communities anytime, run our work with continuity, and above all, spend 100% of the money that we raise from our charitable supporters toward inputs for our target farmers.
Achieving 100% overhead self-sufficiency will give us the capacity to expand our work to new rural communities anytime, run our work with continuity, and spend 100% of the money that we raise from our charitable supporters on inputs for our target farmers.
By achieving 100% overhead self-sufficiency, we will be able to expand our work to new rural communities as we see fit, run our work with continuity, and spend 100% of the money that we raise from our charitable supporters on inputs for our target farmers.
By achieving 100% overhead self-sufficiency, we will be able to expand our work to new rural communities anytime, run our work with continuity, and spend 100% of the money that we raise from our charitable supporters on inputs for our target farmers.
To this end, all we are asking you is to help us raise a one-off $99,860. Details here.
All that we need, to this end, is year-round production on our 12 acres using irrigation, and putting each available space on our 12 acres to use by integrating a whole array of crops and livestock using permaculture approaches, including a chicken forest. Needed support: $99,680. A detailed breakdown of how this money will be used is on this page.
To this end, all we are asking you is to help us raise a one-off $99,860. Details here.
To achieve this, all that we need is year-round production on our 12 acres using irrigation, and putting each available space on our 12 acres to use by integrating a whole array of crops and livestock using permaculture approaches, including a chicken forest. Needed support: $99,680. A detailed breakdown of how this money will be used is on this page.
Total need: $99,680.
Help the UCF cover a region 3 times the size of Rome, with white sorghum.
As we begin 2024, I am asking you to help the UCF expand our white sorghum project to cover every village in our two neighboring districts of Kamuli & Buyende, in eastern Uganda, which together comprise 1,123 villages with an area of 3,300 sq km — 2 times the size of London — and are home to over a million people, and 165,000 households.
As we begin 2024, I am asking you to help the UCF expand our white sorghum project to cover every village in our two neighboring districts of Kamuli & Buyende, in eastern Uganda, which together comprise 1,123 villages with an area of 3,300 sq km — 4 times the size of New York — and are home to over a million people, and 165,000 households.
Our sorghum project was disrupted by covid (in 2020 and 2021) when it was still in its infancy, but our work is now back on track; our farmers have become more interested in growing white sorghum — each farmer is recruiting a few other farmers — and our goal right now is to cover every village in Kamuli & Buyende. Here are a few of our farmers:
As we begin 2024, I am asking you to help the UCF expand our white sorghum project to cover every village in our two neighboring districts of Kamuli & Buyende, in eastern Uganda, which together comprise 1,123 villages with a total area of 3,300 sq km — the size of Long Island — and are home to over a million people, and 165,000 households.
Our sorghum project was disrupted by covid (in 2020 and 2021) when it was still in its infancy, but our work is now back on track; our farmers have become more interested in growing white sorghum — each farmer is recruiting a few other farmers — and our goal right now is to cover every village in Kamuli & Buyende, a region 2 times the size of London. Here are a few of those farmers who have taken part in this project thus far:
Help us cover a region 9 times the size of Gaza:
Help us cover a region 2 times the size of London:
To expand our sorghum work to cover every village in our two twin districts of Kamuli and Buyende, a region 2 times the size of London, all that we need is the postharvest handling and storage capabilities to manage our farmers’ produce on such a scale.