Agriculture
Project goals : The overall objective is to contribute to sustainable food production and promote a quality diet at a reduced cost for the blind learners. The savings made from reduced expenditure on food will enable the school maintain the school fees at a minimum level, affordable by the poor parents hence encouraging them to…
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Health
Donation Goal For This Project is £23,156 Ephphatha primary school is the only school for deaf children in the region which is attended by students from East Burkina and Northern Benin. These young special educational needs children have no built classroom therefore their lessons are held outside making the learning environment very challenging. They are exposed the…
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Kawempe Economic Rehabilitation for Sex Workers Sustain for Life funded the first year of a pilot project originally devised by Plan UK to provide young girls engaged in commercial sex work with the skills to find alternative means to support themselves. The project targeted female sex workers between the ages of 13 and 25 years. Major activities included forming…
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Education
In 2010 Sustain for Life constructed a rain-harvesting system and 30,000 litre water tank to benefit a small, remote, community of Batwa families at Kabahenda in an area where water was difficult to access. The metal roof which serves to harness the rain water also doubles as a life-changing shaded meeting and community area. The rainwater harvesting project provides access to clean…
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Sustain for Life partnered with India-based Gloria Dayanand Seva Niketan (GDSN), an NGO situated in the slums of Howrah, twin city to Kolkata and situated on the left bank of the river Hooghly, to support a school for street children. The children associated with the school come from various backgrounds, e.g. the children of sex…
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Hospital Walkways In January 2012, Sustain for Life made a small grant to Bwindi Community Hospital towards the construction of covered walkways to connect the numerous buildings of the hospital, something that had been on the hospital’s wish list for many years. During our visit to Bwindi the previous October, we saw first-hand the great need for the walkways…
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