Power For The People
Power for the People (PFP) Paorinher Project
We are raising funds to build a farm and service centre to bring sustained food security and income for PAORINHER and its outreach programs, create local jobs and offer training, tools, seeds and financing to support regeneration for communities in Northern Uganda.
It ran from 12:00 PM, 27 November 2018 to 12:00 PM, 4 December 2018
Registered Charity in England and Wales (1162330)
Match funded Campaign target
£24,960
Amount raised
£9,770
Donations
19
Location
Campaign overview
Aims
Where's the money going?
Impact & reporting
The children we sponsor at PAORINHER are severely malnourished orphans with HIV, and have so many dreams and aspirations. 15 year-old Guido wants to be a solar engineer so that people can have light. 13 year old Colletta wants to be Matron so that she can run the Centre and be called Madam ...
— Nasrin Sharifi, PFP founder and CEO
What is killing us is lack of opportunity... peace comes when there is food on the table, health, education ...
— PFP ambassador Emmanuel Jal is former child soldier, an activist and performer
Where else in the world have there been 20,000 kidnapped children? Where else in the world have 90 percent of the population in large districts been displaced? Where else in the world do children make up 80 percent of the terrorist insurgency movement ...
— Jan Egeland, UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
What is killing us is lack of opportunity... peace comes when there is food on the table, health, education ...
— PFP ambassador Emmanuel Jal is former child soldier, an activist and performer
Where else in the world have there been 20,000 kidnapped children? Where else in the world have 90 percent of the population in large districts been displaced? Where else in the world do children make up 80 percent of the terrorist insurgency movement ...
— Jan Egeland, UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
The children we sponsor at PAORINHER are severely malnourished orphans with HIV, and have so many dreams and aspirations. 15 year-old Guido wants to be a solar engineer so that people can have light. 13 year old Colletta wants to be Matron so that she can run the Centre and be called Madam ...
— Nasrin Sharifi, PFP founder and CEO
Situation
Twenty years of war has left many communities in Northern Uganda ravaged by hunger, disease and AIDS/HIV. Paorinher provides care and education for 700 orphaned and vulnerable children and supports over 700 rural households living with HIV with its outreach program. Funding services and delivering basic nutrition and medication to its beneficiaries is an increasing challenge that threatens the Centre's operation.
Solution
The 240-acre farm and service centre being built will provide sustainable food security, as well as earned income (sale of surplus) so that Paorinher can expand its facilities and services for orphans and vulnerable children. The farming centre will create local jobs and build the capability and resilience of subsistence farmers in Patongo, Pader and Agago Districts by offering training, tools, seeds, irrigation technologies and access to finance and market.