THANK YOU!  We are so grateful for your tremendous contributions. Please continue to share our story with others for the remainder of this crowdfunding project.  Remember - every dollar received is matched with two additional dollars.

For the past ten years more than 180 Iowa State and Makerere University students have assisted schools, teachers, children and parents, and local farmers develop active school garden programs for almost 3,000 children. Deep bore holes dug during that time provide fresh water for the children and garden. The lunch program serves about 5,200 meals to more than 2,000 pupils per week. The opportunity to continue to benefit both university students and elementary children for years ahead makes all of our hard work worthwhile.  

Imagine a facility that brings together agriculture teachers and children to learn about beekeeping! This is our dream – a place that will provide the facilities for training the future farmers of Kamuli. What could be better than having school children, their teachers, Iowa State and Makerere University students, faculty and local Kamuli beekeepers all in one place? Well … perhaps having the honey harvested and spread across a freshly made chapati! Please help fund a new facility where children and their mentors can meet and learn about the many opportunities in agriculture. Thank you and share our website with others.

Kamuli mothers serve as trainers in eight Nutrition Education Centers as part of the Iowa State University – Uganda Programs. These amazing women have worked with over 1,500 infants and their mothers. They help malnourished babies and teach mothers how to make nutrient-dense foods. The new facility in Kamuli will provide a central area for trainers, like these women, to learn new skills and save lives. Help us build the new training facility in Uganda! Please share our crowdfunding website with friends, families and co-workers, so that they are aware of the extraordinary dedication of the mothers of Kamuli.

Jane, a small-landholder farmer, received training from Iowa State University through the Uganda Program. Your contributions will help build a new training facility, which will provide a central location for farmers to meet and learn how to raise crops and livestock in a sustainable manner. Such mentoring helps create rural livelihoods that benefit area farmers and their families.

For ten years university students from Iowa State and Makerere contributed to the service learning, school garden program in primary schools in the Kamuli District. A new training center will provide dormitory rooms and a meeting place for all members of the bi-national team to live together when they are in the Kamuli District. Your contribution will help get us closer to the reality of a much-needed center – thank you!

It’s been an exciting launch of the crowdfunding campaign for the Kamuli Training Center in Uganda. We've already received over $900. Thanks to everyone who contributed. Please continue to share the website with friends and family. Help us make our goal!

The photograph shows future beneficiaries of the training center – a young mother, who also serves as a trainer, educates other mothers how to formulate nutrient-dense porridge for infants and young children. 

Check back often for updates!