Help us fight extreme poverty here in Busoga, Uganda’s poorest region, with a Grain Facility.

 

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Our region Busoga is Uganda’s poorest. But we can change this with your help.

Every household in our region is a smallholder farmer, but the biggest challenge that keeps every farmer in our region in chronic extreme poverty, is the absence of reliable markets for our produce. Help us change this by installing a grain cleaning, drying and storage facility that will create new market linkages for rural poor smallholder farmers.

This facility is only part of what will ultimately be an integrated agro-processing plant. Our integrated agro-processing plant, once installed, will place the rural poor in our region on a self-sustainable path from poverty by creating markets for various crops.

 

The grain facility, alone, will also have real impact:

1) New market linkages. Currently, our nonprofit (the UCF) is running a white sorghum project, and our farmers’ sorghum is bought by Uganda Breweries. Once this facility is in place, many more big buyers (including international relief agencies like the WFP, UNHCR, World Vision, GOAL, Red Cross etc) will view us as strategic partners. This will enable rural farmers in our region to access high value markets for their produce.

2). Diversifying incomes for the rural poor. This facility will create market linkages not just for sorghum, but also for many other crops like maize, millet, rice, beans, peas etc, which are also bought by many institutional buyers (like the UN’s WFP), but which rural farmers in our region have previously never had a mainstream market for. This will enable the rural poor in our region to diversify their incomes and escape poverty.

3) Catalyzing self-sustainability. Currently, our project provides all our target farmers with free initial inputs, only as a hand-up, because many can’t afford them. This facility will change this by giving our target farmers a steady income stream for their produce. 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.

4) Self-scalability. The presence of this facility shall in itself be an assurance to local farmers of the presence of a ready market for their produce (including those farmers whom the UCF hasn’t been supporting directly), giving them the self-urge to secure the needed inputs on their own and take part in our work, making our work self-scaling.

 

Note:

Once this grain facility is in place, our goal is to expand our current white sorghum project to cover every village in Kamuli and Buyende, a region that comprises 1,123 villages, with over a million people and 165,000 households (details). We will only scale our work to cover the whole of Busoga once we have developed our integrated plant.

 

Cost for the grain facility:

This facility will be installed by British firm Alvan Blanch, at a total cost of £339,403 (see detailed Quote). Note: as mentioned in this quote, however, the £339,403 only covers plant equipment, and its transportation from Alvan Blanch’s offices in the UK to Mombasa Kenya, not Uganda. The total cost for installing this facility will be $814,000.

With this money, however, our grain facility will have only one silo (of 1,000 tons). If we can raise a little more money, we will install a few more silos to give our facility more storage, and the ability to handle different types of grains at once.

 

Help us raise this money:

We have tried to raise support for this grain facility (and the integrated agro-processing plant) for ten years, as you can see in our 2017 presentation to the UNDP Uganda senior team. In those ten years, we have explored every possible option in vain.

For this reason, UCF founder Anthony recently created (in 2024) a campaign asking the crypto/web3 community across the world to help us raise the needed support. If you are someone from the crypto/web3 community and would like to help, please see our wallet addresses below this page, or visit Anthony’s web3 campaign here: dear-crypto.org

If you are a non-crypto user, you can support us via online contribution; wire transfer; Employee Workplace Giving where your donation will be matched by your employer, or by sending your contribution directly via phone. In all cases, please use the info here.

Your support could be the turning point that Busoga’s ultra poor have been waiting for.

 

Our crypto wallet addresses:

All contributions are converted to USDT to minimize fluctuation.
Total contributions (in USDT) received as of April 9, 2026:   0.000

BTC  (network: Bitcoin): bc1q0ythhk5t23mukwta3n0wgq4azv8dsm0an0tvyf9sfe07xewxtmgshgz5v3

ETH (network: Ethereum): 0x34f0151233f28c096df831656cd205858cf38077

SOL (network: Solana): 9jyeb1PkAgH7k8SojPMCR2uQJzbSckxgkqicbsB66FSt

BNB (net: BNB Chain): 0x34f0151233f28c096df831656cd205858cf38077

CELO (network: Celo):  0x34f0151233f28c096df831656cd205858cf38077

USDT (network: TRC20): THYedyCpBTUZJnLRYkPLumW4ruysqHKYMY

 

Thank you – Anthony, founder UCF.

anthony@ugandafarm.org  |  whatsapp: +256 759 908591  |  twitter.com/KaluluAnthony