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REACH for Uganda is a US non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that provides support to education, health, and community development projects in the Mt. Elgon region of Eastern Uganda. With the current uncertainty about the future of USAID and other US-government sources for foreign aid, it will become increasingly difficult for us to provide the kind of support that we wish to give without your help. Please give generously and convince your corporations, networks, schools, and places of worship to donate or match your contributions.

To provide an incentive for giving, our leadership team and their families have pledged over $1,300,000 in matching funds across all our campaigns. 

We will DOUBLE match any contribution over $10,000 and TRIPLE match any corporate matching contributions received or committed between now and May 31. That means, if you receive corporate matching for your individual donation, your impact could be as much as SIX TIMES your original contribution.

Our goal is to increase the matching pledge pool at least to $2,500,000 so that we can unlock these pledges. That would mean that, with contributions of $2,500,000, we would receive a total of over $5,000,000 this year, enabling us to complete our second classroom building, library, and athletic facilities, and to raise money for merit and need-based scholarships, and other important health and community development projects. If you wish to donate or raise money to increase the size of the matching pledge pool, please contact REACH for Uganda (info@reachforuganda.org).

Our Hawthorne-Scribner High School in Bududa officially opened on February 3, 2025, with the Senior 2 (equivalent to grade 8) reporting to school. Two other classes, Senior 1 and Senior 5 (equivalent to grades 7 and 11) will report by the beginning of March. The staggered enrollment gives us time to complete other school infrastructure and delay the need for additional classroom and dormitory space. The next construction phases will complete the science building, a multipurpose building, athletic facilities; and provide water, sanitation, and solar capacity for the school and surrounding communities. To realize our goal, we need your help to raise at least $4,600,000. We had applied for $2,000,000 from the USAID American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) initiative, but funding from USAID and other United States Government sources now seems unlikely. 

We are grateful that, thanks to your generous support, we made considerable progress on our Hawthorne-Scribner High School in Bududa in 2024, raising over $2,000,000. We used these funds and the remainder of our $800,000 USAID grant to complete the first phase of the high school campus. We have built a classroom building, the boys' and girls' dormitories, a kitchen and dining facility, toilet facilities, and a system that delivers over 100,000 liters of clean water to students and faculty. We also converted an existing house into an office building. We also provided water filters to 4 primary schools and our clinics and improved rainwater harvesting at our two primary schools and two clinics.

We began our second phase of construction in September 2024 and by the end of March 2025, we will complete the first stage of the solar farm that will provide stable electricity, and the exterior of our science building. We expect to have the science building complete and furnished by the beginning of June.

Matching funds received will apply to all of our current campaigns. Please choose anything that appeals to you. You can donate directly to this campaign. The immediate campaign priorities are:

1. Remaining construction and operations priorities ($426,828) from the high school phase 1 construction
2. Completing the Science Building and obtaining the equipment to furnish the science and information technology laboratories (Schoenbrun STEM Education Matching)
3. Providing solar power when the power grid is down (Solar Power Matching Challenge)
4. Providing scholarships totalling $60,000 for the Hawthorne-Scribner School, to allow at least 30 academically gifted kids from the Mt. Elgon region who cannot otherwise afford to continue beyond primary school to continue their education (Hawthorne-Scribner Scholarship Fund)
5. Providing medical services to our students and the surrounding communities by supporting our two clinics (Health Clinic Support), including HIV education and treatment that would have been part of PEPFAR (if that program does not continue)
6. Providing more potable water infrastructure (Drinking Water) for the high school and our two primary schools, our network of 40 outreach schools, and for 29 villages in Namisindwa.
7. A multipurpose building and athletic facilities for the high school.

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