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the projects that NUWECHI are indulged in are piggery, apiary and poultry in NUWECHI and all these are aimed at empowering less financially fortunate people in the north to sustain a normal standard of living befitting for every any human being.the prosperity of the projects are supposed to grow alongside the organization and hopefully expand to bigger heights. these are some of the pictures of the above mentioned projects,these sort of activities help the hopeless obtain some hope for a better future and also make the women self sufficient hence giving the a chance against the world which favours the men better,in northern uganda there's NUWECHI but many others should set up such to make a better world for all it's dwellers.

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I have attended the Life in Africa workshop and am happy that we are learning on life skills practically,am really so happy that am now a member of ned.com family.I have learnt how to use the internet as a connectory tool and how it can benefit the community.

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Learning. People in Uganda learn through various ways such the workshop

Amasiko Small grants Application

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Name of Organization: Amasiko Community based Eco-camp

Operational Location: Kabale District, Lake Bunyonyi

Amount Requested: Ush 989,000/=

Purpose: Construction of a modern Chicken rearing Unit wit a capacity of 100 layers, as demonstration and training opject and for production of eggs and chicken meat for the eco camp.

Brief Description of the Proposal and Budget plan:

During Appreciative Inquiry in three rural communities, all decided to take up chicken rearing as income generating activity. Amasiko wants to take a lead and construct a modern chicken house for demonstration and training purposes, where young people can come and learn about chicken rearing. It will give Amasiko also an opportunity to experience challenges of rural farmers who want to start such a small scale enterprize and find solutions that are not directly accessible to farmers and dessiminate those. The products (eggs and chicken meat) will be used at the eco-camp for self sufficiency. On a longer term, Amasiko could produce and distribute cocks for up grading of local chicken.

Budget: Unit cost Ush

House:

400 ISSB blocks @ 50 20,000

4 bags cement @ 28500 114,000

25 poles @ 3000 75,000

20 m chain link @ 10000 200,000

Nails etc 20,000

16 iron sheets @ 15000 190,000

2 Fooder troughs @ 5000 10,000

2 Water troughs @ 5000 10,000

50 chicklets @ 1700 85,000

vaccination 30,000

Fodder:

(2 bagsgrowers mesh) @60000 120,000

Fencing:

40 m Wire mesh @ 2000 80,000

14 Poles @ 2500 35,000

Labour:

Amasiko contribution

Total: 989,000

Budget:	Unit cost	Ush
House:
400 ISSB blocks	@ 50	20,000
4 bags cement	@ 28500	114,000
25 poles	@ 3000	75,000
20 m chain link	@ 10000	200,000
Nails etc		20,000
16 iron sheets	@ 15000	190,000
2 Fooder troughs	@ 5000	10,000
2 Water troughs	@ 5000	10,000
50 chicklets	@ 1700	85,000
vaccination		30,000
Fodder:
(2 bagsgrowers mesh)	@60000	120,000
Fencing:
40 m Wire mesh	@ 2000	80,000
14 Poles	@ 2500	35,000
Labour:
Amasiko contribution
Total:		989,000

Children of Hope -Uganda (Lira)

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Name of Organization: Children of Hope-Uganda

Operational Location: Lira, northern Uganda

Amount Requested: $700

Purpose:

To purchase 5 sewing machines @ $140 each to start a school uniform sewing business to be operated by the caregivers committee of Children of Hope-Uganda.

C of H pays partial school fees and provides scholastic supplies to 163 orphans and vulnerable children, ages 8 to 16, attending 31 schools, both Primary and Secondary, in Lira.

Brief Description of the Proposal and Budget plan:

The objective is to put the school fees support of these 163 children on a sustainable footing. By helping the caregivers committee start this IGA, income-generating activity, they can generate a steady income stream to be pooled as school fees for all 163 children.

Esther Atoo, Director of C of H, meets regularly with the caregivers committee to make decisions about apportioning school fees, as there is never enough available to help every child. Some of the funds are set aside to provide scholastic supplies for all the children at gatherings at the start of each school term in Feb., May and Sept.

C of H has depended since its inception in Dec. 2006 on donations from Canadians. Since March, 2007, Ugandan Orphans Fund, http://UgandanOrphansFund.giveme aning.com has funded over $25,000 Cdn, but the total school fees for 2009 for all 163 children is $46,445.

A small grant from Life in Africa of $700 to purchase 5 sewing machines would allow the caregivers to generate income for this school fees pool.

LIA Small Grants General Page

For those applying for the small grants, please find below your individual links to your application forms , click on your names and it will take you there and after completing them, post that link to your discussion which you will have to start on the discussion board for your supporters to give some input in helping to finalize it.I shall be adding more as we go along.

Thanks everyone who has been particpating in this competition, for clarifiication on what the main purpose of the small grant is, This has been a donation from one one of our supporters and Life in Africa Foundation has been asked to manage the process of disbursing small grants to community based organizations on behalf of this private donor. The donor's stated conditions are as follows:

25% shall provide seed money for a small grants fund to be disbursed by the Foundation in Q1 2009, to 4 visit-verified Ugandan community-based organizations (which may include LiA Kireka). Proposals from no fewer than 7 Ugandan organizations for small, targetted program support grants should be voted on by Life in Africa global supporters in an online poll to determine the 4 recipients. If a minimum of 7 organizations do not submit proposals for online voting by no later than end March 2009, then this entire portion of the gift should be disbursed in a one time grant to The Kids League Foundation no later than 5 April 2009.

Additionally, Life in Africa requires that all of the projects should be:

1-Existing registered CBO/NGO giving details of your operational area.

2- you should have been visited and verified a LiA Foundation official and already posted on the LIA blog.

3- at least one member actively participating online and should have at least one or two blogs from the participating member.

4- concrete plans for the grant with detailed info on how it will create an impact on the lives of the people that you are working with.

5- ready to report on line on the progress of the fund as required by the Foundation. I know that this may be too long but after going through it you will have known which of these organisations you are going to support.

Thanks all!

PIKITUP

Rock of Ages Small grants application

LIA Kireka Small Grants Application

Child Aid Uganda Small Grants Application

NUWECHI Small grants application

KJT small Grants Application

Amasiko Small Grants Application

Children of Hope -Uganda (Lira)

KJT Small Grants Application

<NED> Discussion of this project.

Name of Organization: Kampala Junior Team

Operational Location: Kisenyi District, Kampala District

Amount Requested: 1,000,000

Purpose: Promoting ICT in Kisenyi slum (KJT Computer Club)

Brief Description of the Proposal and Budget plan

INTRODUCTION

Kampala Junior Team is a community based Youth Talent Identifation Team for orphans, disadvantaged children and street children, situated in Kisenyi II parish, Kampala central division, Kampala. It was formed in 2003 to develop talents for boys and girls aged 5 to 18 years.

Mengo Kisenyi is one of the largest slum areas in Kampala where income levels are very low and opportunities for learning computer and IT skills are very low. The Kampala Junior Team (KJT) wishes to provide the children and young people of Kisenyi with access to computers and IT training in a secure and supportive environment within or very near the Kisenyi community. With this proposal The KJT Computer Club requests 1,000,000 Ugx to fund 3 months rent, UPS,and basic furnishing of a secure premises from which the KJT can develop and expand the services and resources they wish to offer. Using the computer already owned by the KJT, we will begin to offer individual instruction in the use of basic programs such as Introduction to computer,Internet teaching, and office software, for a small fee. We will also offer use of creative software such as image editing and music making programs. This software will be 'Open Source' (free to use and distribute) and will therefore not require funding, but will provide an additional incentive for children and creative young adults, and working artists too, to use our services. The fees earned will be used to further develop the resources and services, after budgeting for future rent payments, to include a fast internet connection and increasing the number of computers, purchasing educational and specialised software, etc.

JUSTIFICATION

The KJT project is based in Mengo Kisenyi, the area in which its founder Kabugo Mansoor grew up. As he grew up, he knew he was amongst many talented friends and peers, who one by one fell victim to crime, drug addiction, gambling, AIDS or prostitution. These children were neglected, uneducated, sometimes orphaned with no one to care for them, yet many had the bright spark of talent, which simply needed nurturing. Sometimes this was athletic prowess, sometimes music or art and sometimes untapped academic ability, but none could break out of the circumstances in which they lived.

Kabugo formed Kampala Junior Team (KJT) to help these young people realise their talents but also to create some young role models in the communities - young people who were able to break out from their circumstances and who would bring hope to others, who might then be deterred from negative behaviour.

Mengo Kisenyi is one of the poorest places in Kampala, yet is only a few kilometres from the 5 star tourist hotels. This short distance represents the short gap from poverty to success that the project intends to bridge. Currently, only a tiny percentage of children here are able to attend school and spend their days begging or stealing, many living on the streets. Houses in the area, where they exist are ramshackle and there is no sanitation or proper water facilities. In fact the project earns some money to feed its participants by selling water to local people.

Kabugo also managed to use the development of the KJT football team to counter the animosity between street children and slum children, who felt differently about themselves. By playing in the same team, they knew they were no different and some of these negative feelings melted away, reducing levels of violence in these areas.

When Kayiwa Fred joined the project a few years after its inception, he brought new skills and an awareness to link up the KJT project internationally. His knowledge of ICT was extensive too and he had seen demonstrated the value of ICT in feeding the learning of young people. Without some extra headstart, the young people that are part of KJT will struggle to compete for work and the development of a self-sustaining ICT Centre will help plug the knowledge gap that local people have.

ICT Centres are very popular too generally and full of people prepared to pay for a cyber cafe service and thus the team are confident that investing in this development will prove profitable enough to start to expand the services of KJT in new ways. Local people are hugely supportive of the football teams that have been so successful and the more recent theatre and music work that has been done in Kisenyi, but they request more services and thus it is important for KJT to look at ways to fund and meet the needs of the local population. By building its capacity too, KJT can work with many more young people, creating a momentum, which could attract international interest and support.

As KJT expands too, it is not logical to run the operation from a house or hire a variety of different venues for activities. Adults and children need to know where to come and the name of the organisation needs to become more well known throughout the city, through having its own secure office. The LiA funding will help secure this for sufficient enough time to become sustainable.

Lastly, KJT has ambition and commitment from its staff team. Much of this commitment is generated by the responsiveness of the young people with whom they work, who themselves seize the opportunities given and run forward with them. Such a project demonstrates its value, when it can show winning football cups against well-funded teams from all over the world, proof that by meeting a young person's needs, there is no limit to where they might progress.

Objectives

1.To provide computer knowledge to the youths and young people in order to copy up with the generation.

2.To ensure that there is less computer illiteracy among the youths.

3.To create an environment were youths can be entrepreneurs using the computers

4.To teach youths how to use the Internet and make good use of web searches for useful information about their studies, health and other matters.

5.Become a self-sustaining social business which in turn enables others in Kisenyi Area to make the most of their own creative or entepreneurial talents by providing affordable, good quality IT training and resources.

6.Become a role model for sustainable social enterprises and organisations interested in IT, enterprise and the arts.

ADMINISTRATION/MANAGEMENT/Organisational structure

Manager : Kayiwa Fred

Assistant Manager : Kalenzi Farukou

Operator: Nakibengo Ever

Budget

Item	Qty/capacity	Amount	Total
Rent	3 months	200.000@	600.000=
Furniture	Chairs/tables	200.000=	200.000=
UPS	2	100.000@	200.000=
Volunteer fee	2	100.000@	200.000=
Total			1,200,000

Item	Qty/capacity	Amount
Intro to comp	2weeks	30.000= kids free
I'net teaching	1week	20.000= adults kids free
office/ other	3weeks	40.000= adults kids free

The project is about reducing Ignorance of computer usage among youths of the Kisenyi slums and members of Kampala Junior Team as well as creating an income for the team.

Edited to correct number of months' rent from 4 to 3 Edited for grammar and spelling by Ceris *Edited to repair link *Edited to update 'Introduction'

LIA Kireka Small Grants Application

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Name of organization: Life in Africa Kireka http://ndeloswwworld.blogspot.co m/

Operational Location: Banda-Kireka,Acholi Qaurters Kampala Uganda

Amount Requested: 1,000,000/=

Purpose: Candle Production

Discussion: http://www.ned.com/group/lia-glo bal/news/20/

Brief Description of the Proposal and Budget plan:

Introduction Life in Africa kireka (liak) is a community based organization started by life in Africa foundation that has existed since 1999 in Uganda. One of the major aims and objectives of life in Africa foundation was to form and empower communities and its for this reason that life in Africa Kireka community based organization came to life and registered by the city council of Kampala under welfare and community services department in on June 2008; Registration number NAK407 hence life in Africa Kireka community based organization is nothing other than an offspring of Life in Africa foundation thus seeing one of its greatest achievements.

Life in Africa which is located in the outskirts of Kampala commonly called Banda-Kireka or Acholi quarters has 30 registered senior members and seven senior officials each with different capacities for proper running of the organization. The community has four major programs; that is to say;

internet4change: this program is designed to equip members and non members with computer related skills that can enable to link up both locally and internationally. Secondly are micro successes: since our community is 100% composed of the poorest of the poor, yet may have good business or developmental ideas for self sustainability. For this reason they target any form of micro finance opportunity that they already have experiences in it. Besides, the organization has children program that is associated with child basic services like discipline, career, dance and drama, school fees search, handwork and among others. Further still the organization does craft production which has been the backbone of all the members.

They make and have made many kinds of crafts similar to paper beads products baskets of different shapes and among other crafts. Itâ€™s important to note here that 98% of these crafts depend on foreign market. In other words, they produce what they donâ€™t consume.

This has calumniated into a serious situation rather a problem of no where to sell the accumulated crafts products because the demand by global market has slowed down to almost 5%! Since all the members were depending on these crafts for their domestic challenges including school fees for their children, to heal bit of this problem, the organization has come up with a proposal of 1,000,000/= to be used for diversification of community economy through production of what can be consumed by themselves locally and what requires little amount too.

JUSTFICATION Candle is one of the sources of power used by many people to substitute electricity, generating for lighting in case other sources of power is not available. There are also other classes of people who solely depend on candle as source of power for lighting; among them is life in Africa Kireka community. Candles are used in many different occasions like birth day parties, graduation parties, and wedding parties, in churches; among the catholic and many others. According to survey done, candles are more used by the locals than lamps because itâ€™s cheaper. Itâ€™s also a product that can be exported to wherever itâ€™s needed and a service that most people would welcome. One stick of candle will go for 200/= for retail price and 150/= for whole sale price.

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES The major goals and objectives for this project is to begin producing what can be consumed by the locals and to supplement on crafts that its market has gone down. This will help not only to provide employment to the members but also innovative skills that they will pass on even to their children. The project will begin by first employing 5% of its members and will go on as consumption realized. This will reduce over dependency on crafts and may lead to the birth of other project to involve other members.

ADMINSTRATION/MANAGEMENT Ndelo Peter the chairman has already acquired candle production skills and is ready to champion the project by training more three and one other who will lead the production in consultation with the chairman. Jessica Wassa the treasure will champion the sales and marketing. She will work with other members to see that the products are sold and money accounted for. Jessica will then have three people responsible for sales and marketing and shall never be a fulltime job but payment shall be by commission depending on who sells what quantity? By this it will encourage competition to sell for more commission. For a period of three months, other five members may be involved in the production and in marketing as well depending on the success of the project that we all hope for. Ndelo Peter shall be responsible for making necessary reports online.

Budget

Item	qty/capacity	Amount	Total
Mold	40 candles	700,000	700,000
Wax	2 catones	80,000	160,000
Thread	3 rolls	5,000	15,000
Chacoal	1 sack	25,000	25,000
Hydroxide	1liter	12,000	12,000
cooking oil	1liter	2,000	2,000
Packing	5 rolls	10,000	50,000
Trasnport		20,000	20,000
others		16,000	16,000
Total			1,000,000

Mold 40 candles, Here I mean the mold can produce 40 candles once at a go.

Work plan

One of the community members who is the chairman has candle production skills; he has also surveyed where to get the machine for molding candles and at what price. Where to get material (wax, thread and sodium) is already identified.

Three people shall be first trained on how to make candles one day after the fund is granted and the training will last for one week before commercial production commences.

Sales and marketing team shall visit various shops to pledge their supplies and to convince them to be their suppliers just one day after the fund is granted until when the products are already produced.

We expect to produce 960 pieces of candles per day.

And we expect to sell 600pieces of candles per day for the beginning. Each piece of wax costs 80,000/= and will produce 1600pieces of candles. shall be sold either at 150 per piece for whole sales or 200 per piece for retail. Each person shall produce 160 candles per day for only 2 hours.

Expected Deliverables(The statement below is in a weekly basis)

materals	300,000/=
out put	3200 pics
Producers	3
Sellers	6
Pr'duction cost	30,000/=
Sales cost	60,000/=
Hours of work	60
Sales per week	480,000/=
Center income	90,000/=

Summary The project is about creating an income generating activity for the community members and also to equip them with innovative skills to help them diversify economic activity other than depending on one activity. This will help to solve problems of unemployment among the community members and hence improving the standard of their living as they shall be able to meet their domestic needs.

Child Aid Uganda Small Grants Application

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Name of Organization

CHILD AID UGANDA (CHAU)

Operational Location

Lyantonde & Rakai Districts - Uganda

Amount Requested

1,000,000 UGX

Discussion : http://www.ned.com/group/lia-glo bal/news/24/

Purpose

Purchase of Long Lasting Treated Mosquito Nets for children under 5 years and pregnant mothers living with HIV and AIDS through the GIVE A NET SAVE LIVES INITIATIVE.

Brief Description of the Proposal and Budget plan

Background

Child Aid Uganda (CHAU) is a registered Community Based Non- governmental Organisation - not for profit established in 2004 by a group of Ugandan children rights activists and professionals in response to the ever increasing needs of HIV and AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children. Child Aid Uganda was thus established to protect, and bring care; love and compassion to enable AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children enjoy their rights, live their full potential and achieve a purposeful future.

Our Mission is “To work with and through individuals, families, communities and local governments to contribute to the fundamental freedoms and basic needs of orphans and other vulnerable children protected by law and internationally recognized as minimum standards for a life of dignity to enable OVCs achieve a purposeful future. Children are thus assisted to live their full potential, shape their own future and contribute to the development of their communities.

Programme Areas

Child Aid Uganda undertakes activities under seven programme areas namely:

Advocacy on children rights and environmental protection

Child health and survival

Housing, water and sanitation improvement

Education support

Poverty reduction at the Household level

Organization development and Capacity building.

Research and information.

Justification of the Give a Net Save Lives Initiative

The initiative fits broadly in the intervention areas for Child Aid Uganda under the thematic area of child health and survival. Activities under this thematic area are geared towards increasing access to preventive and curative services to AIDS orphans, other vulnerable children and their families /households. Accessibility of health services by AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children, young people and caregivers is done through static and health education out reach services, child days and youth clubs. Pregnant mothers and children under five years are also provided with treated long lasting insecticide mosquito nets to protect them from malaria.

In this Initiative (Give a net save Lives) Child Aid Uganda will give special attention to children under five years and pregnant mothers living with HIV and AIDS. The nets will save their lives from mosquito bites protecting them from malaria attacks thus prolonging their life span while on positive living. This pilot initiative will be scaled up to reached out to more people infected and affected by AIDS in future.

Objectives of the Give a Net Save Lives Initiative

The major objective is to save lives of AIDS orphans through provision of long lasting treated mosquito nets to protect them from malaria.

Administration and Management

The initiative will be coordinated by Lauben Tushemereirwe – Programme Coordinator Child Aid Uganda and managed by the established local structures at the community level (Community Based Health Volunteers) that acts as a link between the communities and the Organisation. Identification and assessment of beneficiaries will be by used of a developed standard criteria that will involve health personnel to ensure that the nets are give to children under 5 years and pregnant mothers living with HIV and AIDS.

Monitoring and Evaluation

Monitoring will be on a routine basis first by the community Based Volunteers and CHAU staff to ensure that the nets are put to better use. Reports will be compiled on line and photographs shared with the help of Child Aid Field staff.

Work plan

The identification and assessment of beneficiaries will begin as soon as there is hope for funding the initiative. This process will take one week and Child Aid Uganda will provide the logistics necessary for the exercise. Purchase and distribution of Nets will also take one week. Reporting will begin as soon as funding is secured.

Budget for the Give a Net Save Lives Initiative

CHILD AID UGANDA - GIVE A NET SAVE LIVES INITIATIVE; Purchase and distribution of Long Lasting Treated Insecticide mosquito nets.

Target	# of units	Unit cost	Total cost
Children under 5 years living with AIDS	30	15,000	450,000
Pregnant mothers Living with AIDS	30	15,000	450,000
Transport to& from Kampala to purchase nets	2	25,000	50,000
Fuel for net distribution	1	50,000	50,000
Total			1,000,000

Other initiatives piloted for AIDS orphans includes establishing a community clinic that will provide medical care to children, work with the established child and youth clubs to provide peer-to-peer counseling and referral services for HIV/AIDS care and treatment of opportunistic infections & Sexually Transmitted Infections. Common diseases that will be treated include malaria, diarrhea and skin diseases. Families of AIDS orphans will also be targeted for anti-retroviral therapy (ART) through the outreach initiatives. Also HIV testing and counseling services will also be provided on an outreach basis to clients. All these initiatives will be possible once we get support from the well wishers so we can under take the initiatives. Thank you for taking your time to understand our beneficiaries needs. Your contribution will make a positive difference in the lives of the Aids orphans and other vulnerable children and their families.

Promisory Note for private loan

This space is where we shall develop and edit a Promissory Note for Wilfred of Amasiko and a Private Lender (publicly anonymous), which shall managed by Life in Africa Foundation.

Here's a simple one that I have come up with and that can be edited to help us get to a final one. Feel free to add or remove whatever you feel necessary.

cj - i am in the process of adding more substance to this with terms and conditions that precede the Promissory Note part. Link is bad these days!!

LIFE IN AFRICA

Creative Financing for Social Entrepreneurs

FACILITATED LOAN AGREEMENT

This agreement covers terms and conditions governing an interest free loan from ______________________, private citizen and resident of ______________ (hereafter referred to as the LENDER) and Mr. Wilfried van der Veen, a social entrepreneur resident of Uganda (hereafter referred to as the BORROWER), for which Life in Africa Foundation, Uganda (hereafter referred to as the INTERMEDIARY) shall provide monitoring, online reporting and collection services.

LOAN TERMS

A. Loan, Fee and Repayment Amounts

The total amount of loan funds made available by the LENDER under this agreement is Euro 4000. No interest shall be charged to any party by the LENDER for the use of these loan funds.
From the total loan amount, an administrative fee of 10% (Euro 400) shall be paid upon disbursal to the INTERMEDIARY to cover the costs of monitoring, collection and repayment transfers. This fee is included in the total amount to be repaid by the BORROWER. No interest shall be charged to any party by the INTERMEDIARY for the use of these loan funds.
The total amount to be repaid by the BORROWER to the INTERMEDIARY is Euro 4000.
The total amount to be repaid by the INTERMEDIARY to the LENDER is Euro 4000.

B. Loan Disbursal and Repayment Schedule

The loan will be disbursed on 1st March 2009 in one payment made by the LENDER:

a payment of Euro 3600 will be made to the BORROWER

a payment of Euro 400 will be made to the INTERMEDIARY

The loan will be repaid by the BORROWER to the INTERMEDIARY in 15 quarterly installments of Euro 500, to begin 1 year after disbursal and to be completed in full within a period of 2 years, according to the payment schedule below:
- 15 January 2010 (Euro 500 due)
- 15 April 2010 (Euro 500 due)
- 15 July 2010 (Euro 500 due)
- 15 October 2010 (Euro 500 due)
- 15 January 2011 (Euro 500 due)
- 15 April 2011 (Euro 500 due)
- 15 July 2011 (Euro 500 due)
- 15 October 2011 (Euro 500 due)
The loan will be repaid by the INTERMEDIARY to the LENDER in 4 annual installments of Euro 1000 over a period of 2 years, to begin in the fourth Quarter of 2010 and to continue according to the repayment schedule below:
- 30 October 2010 (Euro 1000 due)
- 30 October 2011 (Euro 1000 due)
- 30 October 2012 (Euro 1000 due)
- 30 October 2013 (Euro 1000 due)

C. Purpose and Plan for the Loan

The purpose of this loan is to develop a private profit-making eco-tourism business on the Amasiko Peninsula at Lake Bunyonyi, that can support the opportunities for youth training and local community development initiated by the Masiko Community Development Association.
The plan for using the loan funds is as follows:
- to prepare the Amasiko site to become operational as an eco-camping site.
- Purchase a bordering piece of land of about 1acre @ Ush 3,000,000/=
- Provide operational costs during a 5 month site development period
The detailed budget for the use of these funds by the BORROWER is as follows:

Expected Budget:

Euro 7500 less fees (750Euro) = Euro 6750 @ 2500 = Ush 16,875,000

MONTHLY OPERATIONAL COSTS

Salary farm worker Ush 50,000

MTN internet connection Ush 100,000

Travel costs Ush 100,000

Supplies Ush 400,000

Total per month Ush 650,000

SUB TOTAL:

5 MONTHS ECO-CAMP OPERATIONAL COSTS: USH 3,250,000

REQUIRED ECO-CAMP INVESTMENTS

Capital investments:

Purchase of land: Ush 3,000,000

Construction of a two stance eco-san toilet with urinal and shower Ush 4,000,000

Preparation of 5 places for tents Ush 500,000

Drainage of exess rainwater (run off channels) Ush 300,000

Rennovation of local houses and installing of a kitchen Ush 500,000

Constrution of a firewood saving stove Ush 250,000

Finishing on Mud&wattle house as staff house and office Ush 200,000

Construction of a Log hut in eucalyptus forest Ush 700,000

Construction of a wooden veranda as restaurant area Ush 600,000

SUB-TOTAL

CAPITAL INVESTMENTS USH 9,775,000

Equipment:

Bed in Mud and wattle house (high sleeper) Ush 150,000

Two double decker beds Ush 150,000

Three tents/sleeping bags Ush 600,000

Ten plastic chairs + 2 Tables Ush 400,000

Kitchen utensils Ush 200,000

Hurricane lamps Ush 100,000

Purchase of a water tank of 3000 liters and rain harvesting Ush 500,000

SUB-TOTAL

EQUIPMENT Ush 1,600,000

Catering Inputs:

Supplies for the reception of paying guests such as gas, paraffin, food, drinks, bed sheets, towels. Ush 2,000,000

GRAND TOTAL

ECO-CAMP DEVELOPMENT: Ush 16,875,000

*4. As stipulated by the LENDER, funds repaid to the INTERMEDIARY but not yet returned to the LENDER may be used (only) to provide interest-free short term loans to additional social entrepreneurs in Uganda, so long as:

the purpose of any such additional loan using these funds is both entrepreneurial and social in nature.

any agreement made by the INTERMEDIARY with any other borrower of these funds includes an online reporting and monitoring plan. (The INTERMEDIARY may charge fees of up to 10% of the loaned amount to future borrowers).

the LENDER is notified and provided with links to any online preparation and monitoring content about the loan.

The repayment schedule outlined in B.3 above is maintained by the INTERMEDIARY, insofar as the original BORROWER signatory to this agreement has repaid at least the amount due from the INTERMEDIARY to the LENDER, and regardless of performance on additional loans disbursed using these funds.*

Section above in italics because I am not sure if that's the right place to put it or not... see also G.2.c below; do these points need to be together?)

D. Reporting and Monitoring Plan

The BORROWER shall prepare and publish online, at a minimum, one descriptive report per month specifically regarding progress toward achieving the loan purpose, plan and budget implementation as outlined in part C of this agreement. A minimum of 2 photos should be included in each report, in addition to descriptive narrative and relevant basic financial information summarizing actual ongoing use and impact of the loan.
The INTERMEDIARY shall provide the following services in relation to monitoring the use of these loan funds:

10 in-person monitoring visits to be conducted by INTERMEDIARY staff and/or independent monitors appointed by the INTERMEDIARY over the course of of the loan term, at 5-7 monthly intervals according to the following schedule:

Q4 2008

Q2 2009

Q4 2009

Q2 2010

Q4 2010

Q2 2011

Q4 2011

10 project monitoring reports to be published online that include the following:

at least 3 relevant site-photos taken during the project visit;

a narrative description of the income-generating project's latest progress, current challenges and planned next steps, based on interviews with the BORROWER and project staff;

observations based on interviews with neighborhood leaders and other local stakeholders on how the income-generating project financed with this loan is enhancing local community development and opportunities for youth;

comments on the project's financial condition, including any issues that may interfere in the project's ability to maintain the loan repayment schedule, based on interviews with the BORROWER and a review of the project's financial accounts.

Email reminders to the BORROWER 2 weeks prior to every payment due, including the current outstanding loan balance and the amount/date of the next payment expected.

Notification by email to the LENDER whenever a payment has been received from the BORROWER.

At least four (4) international transfers from Uganda to be undertaken at the cost of the INTERMEDIARY according to the schedule outlined in B.3 above.

LENDING CONDITIONS

D. Loan and Repayment Currency

The loan and associated fees shall be disbursed by the LENDER in Euro.
Payments due from the BORROWER to the INTERMEDIARY shall be made in Euro.
Payments due from the INTERMEDIARY to the LENDER shall be made in Euro.

E. Early Payment

There shall be no penalty for payment in advance of any or all of this loan from the BORROWER to the INTERMEDIARY, nor from the INTERMEDIARY to the LENDER.
Insofar as the project financed through this loan is still operational, the monitoring and reporting plan outlined in section D above shall be carried out even in the case of early repayment.

F. Late Payments

Late payments from the BORROWER to the INTERMEDIARY

Late payments from the BORROWER to the INTERMEDIARY shall accrue a late fee of 1 Euro per day past due, payable to the INTERMEDIARY with the pending payment to cover additional communication costs and management time incurred.

Incomplete (partial) payments from the BORROWER to the INTERMEDIARY shall accrue a late fee of .002 Euro per day per Euro remaining past due, payable to the INTERMEDIARY with the next payment made to cover the additional loan management costs incurred.

Fees due on late payments will be deducted from amounts paid by the BORROWER prior to calculating new balances and arrears. Unpaid late fees may thus result in additional late fees charged to the BORROWER on partial payments outstanding.

In every case of late or incomplete payment, the BORROWER is required to notify the INTERMEDIARY one week (7 days) in advance. Failure to provide notification of a late or partial payment one week in advance of the scheduled payment due date will result in a DOUBLING of the late fees indicated in section F.1.a-c above.

Late payments from the INTERMEDIARY to the LENDER

Late and/or incomplete payments from the INTERMEDIARY to the LENDER shall accrue a late fee of .0005 Euro per day per Euro past due, payable to the LENDER against the use of these funds outside the terms and conditions set forth in this loan agreement.

In every case of late or incomplete payment to the LENDER, the INTERMEDIARY is required to notify the LENDER two weeks (14 days) in advance with details of the anticipated changes in the repayment schedule. Failure to provide notification of a late or partial payment two weeks in advance will result in a DOUBLING of the late fees indicated in F.2.a.

G. Default

This loan shall be considered at risk of BORROWER default if, after the initial 12 month grace period, less than 40% of scheduled payments due are received by the INTERMEDIARY during any 6 month period.

In addition to the levy of late fees as described in F.1. above, the INTERMEDIARY shall manage borrower default in a phased approach as follows:

When less than 40% of payments due have been received from the BORROWER over a 6 month period, the loan's Potential Default status will be permanently noted at the project's profile page on the INTERMEDIARY's public website. Any additional agreements governing services rendered by the INTERMEDIARY to the BORROWER's project will come under immediate review and be subject to change at the INTERMEDIARY's discretion.

the BORROWER will be invited to re-negotiate alternative loan terms with the LENDER, requiring a facilitated modification of this agreement for which the INTERMEDIARY shall charge a supplementary fee for each modification as outlined in section J. below, in addition to outstanding late fees (to be paid by the BORROWER as part of the re-scheduled balance due).

failure of the BORROWER to respond to invitations to renegotiate the loan terms and/or continued failure to pay at least 40% of rescheduled payment amounts over a further period of 6 months shall result in official reports filed by the INTERMEDIARY with Local Council authorities at the LC-I, LC-III and LC-V levels in the District where the project operates, for the purpose of soliciting their advice and assistance in collection of the loan.

failure of the Borrower to pay at least 40% of re-scheduled payments over a period of 9 months shall result in official reports filed by the INTERMEDIARY with local police authorities, the Uganda Revenue Authority, and the BORROWER's bank, for the purpose of alerting them to potential financial irregularities in the project and soliciting their advice and assistance in collection of the outstanding loan balance. When arrears amount to more than 60% of rescheduled payments due for a period of more than 9 months, the INTERMEDIARY also reserves the right to publish ads in local newspapers with the BORROWER's photo, warning local citizens about the risks of doing business with the BORROWER and publicly renouncing ties to the Borrower's project.

This loan shall be considered at high risk of INTERMEDIARY default if, after the initial 12 month grace period has elapsed, less than 60% of payments actually received by the INTERMEDIARY from the BORROWER have been repaid to the LENDER over any 12 month period.

In addition to the levy of fees on late and incomplete scheduled payments as outlined in F.2. above, the LENDER shall take the following steps in the case that a high risk of INTERMEDIARY default should become apparent:

The LENDER reserves the unilateral right to request a change to the BORROWER's loan repayment instructions.

The LENDER reserves the right to privately and/or publicly inform other local and international parties in known relationships with the INTERMEDIARY of the loan's potential default status, in order to warn them of the potential risks involved in doing further business with the INTERMEDIARY and to solicit their assistance in recovering the loan.

any onlending of funds to additional social entrepreneurs as described in section C.4. of this agreement is at the INTERMEDIARY's sole discretion and risk; repayment performance of secondary loans made with these funds shall not be considered by the LENDER in determining the risk of INTERMEDIARY default, nor in determining appropriate measures to implement for recovery of the full amount paid to the INTERMEDIARY by the BORROWER.

H. Force Majeur

In the case of apparent INTERMEDIARY default risk or any other Force Majeur which prevents the INTERMEDIARY from providing the services included in this agreement, scheduled BORROWER repayments will become due directly to the LENDER. Should such occur, international transfer costs incurred will be paid by the LENDER so as not to increase the total amount due from the BORROWER.
In the case of the LENDER's death at any time during the loan term, any outstanding balance remains payable to the INTERMEDIARY, and may be used by the INTERMEDIARY to establish a perpetually revolving loan fund for social entrepreneurs in Africa.
In the case of the BORROWER's death at any time during the loan term, the promissory note will be waived by the LENDER for any balances not yet paid by the BORROWER to the INTERMEDIARY. In the case of any other Force Majeur that prevents the BORROWER from continuing work on the project this loan has financed, the BORROWER agrees to make every effort to repay the loan from other sources of income and recognizes the ability to re-negotiate the loan repayment schedule that is allowed under this agreement.

I. Modifications to this Agreement

In response to any actual or perceived INTERMEDIARY violation of this agreement, and without prior notification to the INTERMEDIARY, the LENDER reserves the sole unilateral right to discontinue use of the INTERMEDIARY's local collection services, by issuing written alternative payment instructions directly to the BORROWER, copied to the INTERMEDIARY. The LENDER's decision to discontinue the use of the INTERMEDIARY's collection services shall not imply an end to the INTERMEDIARY's reporting obligations as described in section D.2. of this agreement.
Changes to payment transfer instructions, bank account and address details included in the Promissory Note below may be made by any signatory to this agreement at any time, by writing the changes in an email copied to all signatories on the promissory note.
Modifications to the terms and conditions of this loan, including a re-scheduling of loan payments in the case of apparent BORROWER default risk, may be renegotiated with the LENDER at any time at the BORROWER's request. An additional service fee of 50 Euro will be charged by the INTERMEDIARY for facilitating each international renegotiation and re-signing of this agreement.

I. Dispute Resolution

In the unlikely case that a dispute may arise between the parties to this agreement which cannot be amicably resolved through private or public discussion, all legal claims shall be presented against and judged under the laws of the Government of Uganda.

PROMISSORY NOTE

BORROWER

I______________________ of________________, on this______ day of ____________, have received a loan in the amount of ________________________________ from _________________ of_______________ as witnessed by ______________ of Life in Africa Foundation.

I the undersigned BORROWER hereby promise to repay the total amount of 4000 Euro, without any interest, in 8 quarterly installments of 500 Euro each, beginning on 15 January 2010 and completing the last payment on 15 October 2011.

Once repayments begin I shall remit all payments due into Life in Africa's bank account at Barclays Bank, Jinja Road Branch (a/c ______________________) on the 15th day of every 3rd month, as outlined in section B.2. of the terms governing this loan.

I understand, accept and agree to the conditions associated with these loan terms, and

My eyes are crossing - have to go to bed now!

LENDER
INTERMEDIARY

This note shall take effect as a sealed instrument and shall be construed, governed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the Government of Uganda.

Borrower ______________________________Date: _______________

Lender _____________________________ Date: _______________

Intermediary _____________________________ Date: ________________

Rock Of Ages Small Grants Application

Please fill in this application form and click on save at the end of it and you are done, then pick the link and send it to a discussion board which you will have created.

Name of organization: Rock Of Ages Center for Hope

(ROACH) http://lucysheart.blogspot.com/

<NED> discussion here

Operational location: Kireka Hill, Kampala

Amount requested: UGX1,000,000

Purpose: Maize/Beans growing

Brief Description of the Proposal and Budget plan:

ROCK OF AGES CENTER FOR HOPE - MAIZE/BEANS PROJECT

BACKGROUND:

This venture is to be implemented by the founder members of the project and it will be located at Koro Abili village, 10kms from Gulu town, along Gulu- Kampala Road.

It is to be financed by members subscriptions and contribution of 1,590,000 = (One million Five Hundred Ninety Thousand shillings) and a loan or donation or grant of 1,000,000 (One Million Shillings only)

The core objective for setting up this venture is to help the organization with feeding of the children and where possible sell some part of the products to raise funds for taking care of other activities. For now, we plan to begin majorly with Maize and Beans, and later go into other food crops like; Soya beans, and cassava. The land in question is indeed fertile with adequate rain. All the neighbors are also engaged in farming at various levels and we hope this venture will yield a good return.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

So far, we have been able to buy the 5 acres of land and what remains is now the actual work to begin, right from clearing the land to harvesting.

We expect to plant 5 acres of maize. The yield per acre is expected to be 20 bags of 100 Kilograms each. The 5 acres of maize is therefore to produce 100 bags each season. Since there are two planting periods in a year and we want to try to plant in both seasons, we shall be able to produce 200 bags of maize per year.

On the same 5 acres, we also expect to inter plant beans with the maize. That means we are planting beans on 5 acres and each acre is expected to give a yield of 8 bags of beans. The total bags per season will then be 40 bags and we expect to plant the beans twice a year that will therefore produce 80 bags per year. Each bag will contain 100 kilograms of beans.

The administration of this venture is still mainly in the hands of a few of the founder members, Ms Lucy Lamunu and Mr. Obalim Gerard who is an Agriculturalist. Casual laborers will do physical work and the work will take in; - clearing the field, planting, weeding, harvesting, sorting, and others. The casual laborers will do Bush clearing and occasionally hired tractors will be used for ploughing.

Weeding and harvesting will be done by use of local tools like hand hoes. However, we plan to adopt better scientific methods of farming to enable us achieve the highest yield possible and to speed up work as we expand.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES:

Provide food for the center.
Provide an alternative source of income to the center.
Increase the asset worth of the organization

EXPECTED OUTPUT:

High quality beans ready for cooking
High quality maize ( Corns) for flour
Beans and Maize seeds for more planting
Land acquired

PROJECT BUDGET

Item	Unit cost	Quantity	Amount
Opening up the land	30,000	5 acres	150,000
Harrowing	20,000	5 acres	100,000
Maize seeds for 5 acres	2,000	40 kg	80,000
Beans seeds for 5 acres	1,500	40 kg	60,000
Planting (Beans and Maize)	40,000	5 acres	200,000
Weeding (twice)	35,000	5 acres	350,000
Harvesting Maize	30,000	5 acres	150,000
Harvesting Beans	30,000	5 acres	150,000
Shelling and bagging	50,000	5 acres	250,000
Fertilizers
Urea	90,000	5 bags	450,000
Diammonium phosphate(DAP)	130,000	5 bags	650,000
Total			2,590,000

WORK PLAN:

FIRST SEASON:

Activities	Starting date	Ending date
Clearing the site	1st Jan 2009	30th Jan 2009
Planting seeds	1st March 2009	15th March 2009
First weeding	1st April 2009	31st April 2009
Second weeding	15th May 2009	31st May 2009
Harvesting	1st June 2009	31st July 2009
Sorting and Bagging	1st June 2009	31st July 2009

NUWECHI Small grants application

Name of organization: Northern Uganda Women and Children Initiatives: (NUWECHI)

Operational Location: KIREKA,Kitintale- Kampala Uganda

Amount Requested 1,000,000/=

Purpose: Purchase of Computer, its accessories and internet connection.

Discussion: http://www.ned.com/group/lia-glo bal/news/21/

Brief Description of the Proposal and Budget plan:

Introduction

Northern Uganda women and children Initiatives(NUWECHI) NUWECHI is a women indigenous grassroots nonprofit organization registered under certificate No S7940 of the Uganda National Board of Non-Governmental Organization. She has a well defined structure with executive committees and qualified committed staff in place. Northern Uganda women and children initiatives (NUWECHI) aims and objectives are to promote women’s right, welfare , peace, education and health programmes for women and girls in Northern Uganda . NUWECHI started as an informal network and slowly continued to organize solidarity visits, meetings between conflict affected women, and providing basic medical support, basic items like food, clothes care and love for the most disadvantaged. As we built strength together, we began to realize that women and children suffer most in situation of armed conflicts and yet nobody seems to care and to know; many cases go unreported. They are marginalized as far as human right issues are concern and are face with all different forms of violation of rights one can imagine, they are the most poor and dependent species, women survivors are traumatized and live miserable until death with no support financially ,psychologically, emotionally, materially just to mention a few. this then gave us the spirit to push forward and advocate for women and children’s rights.

NUWECHI has a passion for the disadvantaged and ready to strengthen, raise the voices of survivors and conflict affected women and girls ,advocate for women and children rights and secure services that will make a difference in their lives and bring them together to share their experiences and forge a way forward.

The mandate of the applicant organization is that it is registered to operate in Acholi land (Gulu, Kitgum, Pader and Kampala for Acholi displaced people living in slum /suburbs areas of Kampala. It has been in the grassroots for the last five (5) years carrying out various activities which has benefitted the communities more especially women and children. Presently efforts are being made to support resettling the displaced people from internally displaced camps going back to their home villages, creating awareness on human rights and gender equality, Protect and Promote women and children’s’ human rights, soliciting support for women who suffered violations especially during the war i.e women survivors , girl child mothers and those girls who are defiled at a very tender age and under risky pregnancy and totally needy and confused without direction in life and supporting the displaced women in Kampala slums with life skills /income generating activities so that they can cater for their families and slowly get a way of going back home and be able to fully look after their siblings.

To help us continue with our work successfully, we are requesting your organization to support us with a computer, its accessories and internet connection (MTN- PLUG AND PLAY) for the new office we are setting up in Kampala to ease our work for the displaced women currently quarrying stones at Kireka and those in Namwongo kanyonyoga zone selling petty things like mangoes, oranges, ripes etc.

Our mission

NUWECHI's mission is to improve the livelihood of women, children and the youth to realize their rights to survival, protection, participation and economic needs.

Vision

To see an improved livelihood of women, children and youth towards holistic and sustainable development.

Core Values

Transparency and Accountability.

Commitment

Compassion.

Empowerment of women, children and youth.

Past Activities

Trained 20 women in sustainable agriculture

Created awareness on HIV/AIDS to 3,600 Pader, Kitgum and Kampala.

Trained 40 mothers on Nutrition and 236 on traditional birth attendance

Donated non consumables to the communities in the camps e.g Padibbe East, West Union, Omiya Anyima and Namuwongo Kampala (displaced)

Protecting, promoting and sharing of decision making in every household and creating conducive working environment that allows women to participate in income generating activities.

Encouraged the victims of human right abuses to report cases to the local authorities

Sensitized women to go for voluntary counseling and testing and encouraged the infected People on Positive Living and take ARVS

We have also handled capacity building of local influential people, cultural leaders by providing skills for participating in peace building and conflict resolution.

Present Activities

Service delivery to the people in the camps and satellite camps e.g Omiya –Anyima, Orom, Kalabong.

HIV/AIDS Awareness in Acholi bur, Namuwongo Gang dyang (Acholi Quarters-Kireka Displaced women)

Lobby and advocacy in Gang Dyang kitgum

Gender and cultural mainstreaming in Gang Dyang

Support to the local peace initiatives Kitgum District Peace forum (KDPF)

Mobilization and sensitization of women, children, especially girl child, youth, women leaders about the need and importance of reproductive health, human rights, women participation and involvement, HIV/AIDS, child education on the quality of life and the community at large in Kitgum and the surrounding neighborhood.

Lobbying, advocacy and networking with government, local and international NGO’S.

Training women as resourceful people from the country in basic messages in parental care, counseling and guidance, nutrition and capacity building in issues covering family affairs at Amida Mucwini, Omiya –Anyima, Namukora and Orom.

Supporting and encouraging Income Generating Activities like chicken rearing and multiplication currently being done to 460 women in Omia-anyima, Orom and gangdyang in kitgum District

Grand mothers initiatives to fight AIDS projects in Mucwini

Income Generating Activities for women survivors- Omiya anyima

Income Generating activities for HIV/AIDS Infected women in Gang dyang

Training T.O.T to sensitise the community on HIV/AIDS Awareness campaign.

Budget

Item	Quantity	Amount	Total
Computer	1 piece	500,000	500,000
Printer	1 piece	180,000	180,000
Internet Connection	lump sum	320,000	320,000
Total			1,000,000

NUWECHI shall meet the monthly rental fee for the internet and Aciro Beatrice shall be responsible for making necessary reports online.

Work plan

One of the staff has already surveyed and identified where to get the computer, printer and the MTN PLUG and PLAY Internet. This the means that immediately we are availed money as requested, the above mentioned equipment shall be in place as soon as expected.

Expected outcome

The Kampala office shall operate effectively and efficiently since it will have the capacity to communicate with donors ,stakeholders, members beneficiaries, friends and sympathizers thereby opening ways of support for the disadvantaged women in different forms.

LIA Small Grants Applications

For the past one month we've been talking about the Small Grants from the Foundation and had put the deadline for turning in applications at 15th February and I had advised those who have already been verified and are on our member team list, to begin putting together their applications, which means now that this space exists, you will only copy and paste it here.You can also keep a discussion about it going on one of your discussion pages.

The criteria for this small grants is as follows;

1-Existing registered CBO/NGO giving details of your operational area.

2- you should have been visited and verified a LiA Foundation official and already posted on the LIA blog.

3- at least one member actively participating online and should have at least one or two blogs from the participating member.

4- concrete plans for the grant with detailed info on how it will create an impact on the lives of the people that you are working with.

5- ready to report on line on the progress of the fund as required by the Foundation.

Find below the designed form where you can fill in your names and describe your proposals;

Name of organization: Life in Africa Kireka

Operational Location: Banda-Kireka,Acholi Qaurters Kampala Uganda

Amount Requested: 1,000,000/=

Purpose: Candle Production

Brief Description of the Proposal and Budget plan:

They make and have made many kinds of crafts similar to paper beads products baskets of different shapes and among other crafts. It’s important to note here that 98% of these crafts depend on foreign market. In other words, they produce what they don’t consume.

JUSTFICATION Candle is one of the sources of power used by many people to substitute electricity, generating for lighting in case other sources of power is not available. There are also other classes of people who solely depend on candle as source of power for lighting; among them is life in Africa Kireka community. Candles are used in many different occasions like birth day parties, graduation parties, and wedding parties, in churches; among the catholic and many others. According to survey done, candles are more used by the locals than lamps because it’s cheaper. It’s also a product that can be exported to wherever it’s needed and a service that most people would welcome. One stick of candle will go for 200/= for retail price and 150/= for whole sale price.

Budget

Item	qty/capacity	Amount	Total
Mold	40 candles	700,000	700,000
Wax	2 catones	80,000	160,000
Thread	3 rolls	5,000	15,000
Chacoal	1 sack	25,000	25,000
Hydroxide	1liter	12,000	12,000
cooking oil	1liter	2,000	2,000
Packing	5 rolls	10,000	50,000
Trasnport		20,000	20,000
others		16,000	16,000
Total			1,000,000

Mold 40 candles, Here I mean the mold can produce 40 candles once at a go.

Work plan

Three people shall be first trained on how to make candles one day after the fund is granted and the training will last for one week before commercial production commences.

We expect to produce 960 pieces of candles per day.

Expected Deliverables(The statement below is in a weekly basis)

materals	300,000/=
out put	3200 pics
Producers	3
Sellers	6
Pr'duction cost	30,000/=
Sales cost	60,000/=
Hours of work	30
Sales per week	480,000/=
Center income	90,000/=

Name of Organization: Kampala Junior Team

Operational Location: Kisenyi District, Kampala

Amount Requested: 1,000,000

Purpose: Promoting ICT in Kisenyi slum (KJT Computer Club)

Brief Description of the Proposal and Budget plan

INTRODUCTION

Kampala Junior Team is Kampala Junior Team is a community based Youth Talent Identication Team for Orphans disadvantage and street children, situated in Kisenyi II parish, Kampala central division. Kampala District It was formed in 2003 to develop talents for kids aged 5 to 18 years old boy /Girls for both . Mengo Kisenyi is one of the large slum area in Kampala where income levels are very low and opportunities for learning computer and IT skills are very low. The Kampala Junior Team (KJT) wishes to provide the children and young people of Kisenyi with access to computers and IT training in a secure and supportive environment within or very near the Kisenyi community. With this proposal The KJT Computer Club requests 1,000,000 Ugx to fund 4 months rent, computer accessories like printer,UPS,speakers,Power Extentions,generator and basic furnishing of a secure premises from which the KJT can develop and expand the services and resources they wish to offer. Using the computer already owned by the KJT, we will begin to offer individual instruction in the use of basic programs such as Introduction to computer,Internet teaching,office software for a small fee. We will also offer use of creative software such as image editing and music making programs. This software will be 'Open Source' (free to use and distribute) and will therefore not require funding, but will provide an additional incentive for children and creative young adults, and working artists too, to use our services. The fees earned will be used to further develop the resources and services, after budgeting for future rent payments, to include a fast internet connection and increasing the number of computers, purchasing educational and specialised software, etc.

JUSTIFICATION

Having a comfortable and secure environment will enable the KJTComputer Club to host and benefit from the Butterfly Project http://www.nfiafrica.org/butterf ly.html which guides and supports talented and enterprising young people in the use of IT and the setting up of social businesses and projects. This will place the KJT Computer Club at the centre of a series of workshops and networking sessions to include a wide range of organisations and individuals from all over Kampala, attracting many potential volunteers/partner orgs and customers. The skills learned from the Butterfly Project will enable the Computer Club to become a self-sustaining social business which in turn enables others to make the most of their own creative or entepreneurial talents by providing affordable, good quality IT training and resources.

Mission statement This project is to boost the use of Information Communication Technology most the use of Computer in the youths of Mengo Kisenyi slums.

There are many people who would need to have computer knowledge because the world is going digital and the world now is becoming a global village were each and every body has to be with computer knowledge thats why Kampala Junior Team [KJT] has come up with the project of providing computer knowledge to the youths of this slum area.

Objectives 1.To provide computer knowledge to the youths and young people in order to copy up with the generation. 2.To ensure that there is less ilitarcy of computer among the youths 3.To create an environment were youths can be entrepreneurs using the computers 4.To teach youths how to use Internet and make good search of usefully information about their studies, health and others

Become a self-sustaining social business which in turn enables others in Kisenyi Area to make the most of their own creative or entepreneurial talents by providing affordable, good quality IT training and resources.

Become a role model for sustainable social enterprises and orgs interested in IT, enterprise and the arts.

ADMINISTRATION / MANAGEMENT/Organisational structure

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<<<<<<< Revision 16 <<<<<<< Revision 14 Charges <<<<<<< Revision 20 =========== =============== ============ ============ Item qty/capacity Amount Introduction 2weeks 30.000= kids free to comp

internet 1week 20.000=adults kids free teaching ======= =========== =============== ============ ============ Item qty/capacity Amount Introduction 2weeks 30.000= kids free to comp

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Charges =========== =============== ============ ============

Item qty/capacity Amount Introduction 2weeks 30.000= kids free to comp

internet 1week 20.000=adults kids free teaching

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http://gimp.org/

GIMP is an amazingly powerful image editor, it does just about everything you'll ever want to do with a photograph, probably far more than you'll ever need! But it's quite complicated to use and is not a 'paint' program, and needs a fairly powerful computer. 'GIMP's biggest appetite is for memory and how much you will need will depend on the how many images you are working with, their resolution, size, the number of layers you use and so on. As a general rule, more is better, but 128MB should be enough to be getting started with.'

http://www.openoffice.org/index. html

I use Open Office instead of MSOffice, I find it has all the functionality I need.

'OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.'

I would add that files created in Open Office take up a lot less space on your hard drive than msword files.

http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_imf fw.html

This is shareware (free to download and use but not to copy/redistribute)

My kids like Image Forge, it's a basic paint program, the only free or open source painting software I've been able to find (excepting trial versions). It's got a neat little animation function and it's very easy to use.

'ImageForge provides you with a set of powerful tools for painting and editing images, photos or other graphics. Create and edit images, acquire pictures from your scanner, digital camera or other Twain-compliant device, apply special effect filters, produce your own photo albums and simple slide shows, and much more.'

http://www.getpaint.net/index.ht ml

open source

I've only just discovered and downloaded this so haven't tried it yet, I'll let you know what it's like when I do!

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.

Hey everyone, it's me John. Everyone knows I'm disorganized. But did you know that workspaces are Wiki. That means anyone can edit or change the page. With that in mind I'm going to put things here which may or may not belong. Feel free to change or delete them.

EACOSS stands for East African Center for Open Source Software. Somehow none of their Web pages seem up right now, but here is the address and phone:

Plot 9-12 Port Bell Rd +256(0)414-223802

Linux Chix Africa Uganda I'm not real big on the name Linux Chix, but I'm really big on the organization. I don't know much about computers and software. It's so frustrating to ask questions because it seems the people I ask make me feel stupid. Geeks--computer savvy people--are notorious for being rude. And Linux Chix are women who got tired of rude male Geeks and figured that it was important to have women answer questions without being rude. I'm thrilled there's a chapter in Kampala.

BROSDI Busoga Open Source and Development Initiative is not in Kampala, nor is it software. However on their pages they've got lots of links to Open Source software. And what the organization does is worth looking to. They use SMS and other tools really effectively and are very transparent about what they do so their good ideas can be seen.

WOUGNET

WOUGNET "Women of Uganda Network is a NGO initiated by women`s organisations in Uganda to develop the use of ICTs among women as tools to share information and address issues collectively." Some of the articles seem pretty technical, but clicking on the Old Web Site tab directs to outdated but somewhat useful pages about open source software.

One thing I like is the organization tags some bookmarks at http://delicious.com/ with WOUGNET. I like Delicious, but I'm not as good about using it as I should be. And I'm bad at tagging. I went to my delicious pages http://delicious.com/protoslacke r too look for bookmarks for this workspace. Ack, not much luck. But I do point out that it is useful. For example Christina was interested in soil block presses. I saved over 50 bookmarks on the subject. Many people here at Ned use Delicious. So if there is a specific subject you want people to research tell us to use a particular tag. In no time many Internet pages relevant for what you want will be collected.

iicd is another organization that works to develop more adoption of opens source software in Uganda.

Inveneo is hardware rather than software but good to know about.

Linux as a computer operating system comes in different distributions or "flavors." One of the most popular ones is an African company, Ubuntu. Their support affiliate in Uganda is E-Tech Plot 250, Kironde Road, Muyenga P.O. Box 8711, Kampala, Uganda +256 (0) 312 260620. That company is obviously a for-profit outfit. I list them just so you can see that businesses in Uganda take open source software seriously.

Free Geek is an organization in Portland, Oregon. I bet there are several members of Ned who know people in that organization. And Free Geek has done programs in Uganda before. So maybe they could be partners or help. At least they are a group that seems worth making contact with.

AndrewKluetz

gerald_wandera_obbo

Wandera Gerald Obbo

Postbank Uganda ltd P.O .BOX 7189, Kampala, Uganda. 9th March 2008

The Director Life in Africa Kampala Uganda.

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Dear Madam/Sir,

RE: POSITION OF CHIEF ACCOUNTANT

I write to apply for the post as stated above, this follows the Advert that was posted on your Website. This is duty in response to my personal desire and interest to build a good employment career with your organization as I serve the nation and the world over.

I am a Ugandan by nationality a born of Tororo District in Paya Sub county, Sop Sop Village Nabowa zone. I have a desire to take up this challenging position, because am confident if given the opportunity I can effectively discharge the duties and role of this position.

My good wealth of experience in the field of Finance & Banking spanning over a period of seven years makes me one of the most suitable persons to join your organization.

As regards educational background have Bachelor of Commerce Majoring in Accounts from Makerere University Kampala. I also have Uganda Diploma in Business Studies (UDBS) of Makerere Business School Kampala.

I currently work as head of operations of cheques and salaries and foreign remittances for the entire organization based at head office.

I have given small scale loans to communities and groups, associations and small business communities which has transformed people’s lives positively.

I do understand that this is a home based 40hrs/week position requiring daily on line communication and 15 field days per Month, including 10days in Northern Uganda, 5days in Kampala Kireka,which am ready for it.

For details I have attached with this letter the curriculum vitae and would be glad if I am invited to come and defend my desirable qualities before your recruitment panel.

Thank you,

Yours truly, Gerald Obbo Wandera.