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Need: Farmland Improvements

Location: Kamuli District, Uganda, Sonrise Children’s Home compound

Background: Need to create drainage ditches around and through our swampy low-land acreage creating high ground area and lowland ponds increasing agricultural acrerage for food production. We would like to maximize the potential of our acreage especially during the extreme wet seasons.

Benefits:

• Increase our agricultural average for rice, sweet potatoes, cow grass and vegetables

• Creation of ponds may provide an opportunity for tilapia farming at a future date.

• Additional employment for
  villagers

Budget: $25,000

Sonrise Children’s Home serves to promote the Good News of Christ in their area of influence through education, farming, school, outreach and discipleship.

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Need: Purchase 25 acres of high ground land to support Secondary School and crops. Addresses land and legal fees. 

This land will provide a location for our badly needed secondary school. Currently, our Sonrise children will have to end their education at 7th grade because there is no accredited Secondary Schools in our area. We want all our primary age children to have the opportunity to further their education making them better prepared to be able to provide for themselves as they grow older.

Benefits:

1. Able to increase our food production, reducing our need to purchase food.

2. Able to plan for construction of Secondary School

3. Children can complete their high school education

Budget: $20,000

Sonrise Children’s Home serves to promote the Good News of Christ in their area of influence through education, farming, school, outreach and discipleship.

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Need: Purchase seeds, seedlings, farm labor, land lease and tools.

Location: Kamuli District, Uganda, Sonrise Children’s Home compound

We are seeking someone that will partner with us in our agriculture program. Your grant would supplement our labor and materials costs so we can increase our food production.  

Our existing crops include maize, sweat potatoes, green peppers, carrots, onions, tomatoes, green beans, dry beans, rice, edible sugar cane, spinach, bananas, matooke, papaya, pineapple, cabbage, passion fruit, mango, eggplant, bitter melon, greens and Irish potatoes.

Each of our 3 living cottages have a small garden which the children help maintain. We also have several acres of crops managed by our farmer Tom. We can increase our acreage depending on funds received.

Benefits:

1. Provides critical food for our home, school children and staff.

2. Supports our efforts of becoming self-sustaining

3. Reduced requirements for produce purchases

4. Income producing should there be any excess

Budget: $18,180 (Annually) or $1,515 (Monthly) 

Sonrise Children’s Home serves to promote the Good News of Christ in their area of influence through education, farming, school, outreach and discipleship.