Help 120 Uganda women move from the slum to a home

We are happy to report that through generous donors, craft sales of our African beaders' products here in the U.S., and through contributions by our women beaders, we reached the first milestone in our land acquisiton project in September.  We successfully raised over $60,000 for the land purchase.  Now, we have another three months to complete the total fund raising needed before actual site preparation work can begin.  We are very grateful for all donations received to date.  But we still do urgently need another $13,000 in total from all sources before we can begin actual home building activities.  Please let all your friends and family know how critically we need this final help to reach our final fund raising goal.

Our Ugandan beaders are greatly excited.  Outreach Uganda will be meeting every two weeks with the women's home ownership committee as we make final plans on how to progress with the home building portion of the program in 2014.  Even now, the women are able to do some clearing and fencing of the land, before the final funds are paid to the landowner. 

The attached photo shows our beaders' joy when we visited the land again in July. We see the tremendous possibilities for progress that this land offers these women who were once living on less than $1 per day.  Purchasing the land is a critical final step in helping our beaders rise out of poverty forever.  Even though they may have money for food and medicines, they can never move out of the slums where they live without help to buy the land on which to build their own houses.

Please consider helping complete this very important project.

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