Aid Africa

We are halfway to our fundraising goal! THANK YOU to everyone who has contributed so far, halfway with 9 days left. Tickets to the event on March 13th can still be purchased and bidding for a beach house in Kauai, a stay in Scotland, and much more is still open! https://lnkd.in/gWaVuEEy

Aid Africa does vital work that improves people's lives. Our Annual Fundraiser is coming up! Please join us for a fun evening at Coconut Joe's Private Beach Club. Can't attend? No problem, we have great silent auction items and raffle prizes, all for a great cause. You could win a beach condo in Kauai, a rock climbing party, or a lovely stay in Scotland, plus many more great options. https://lnkd.in/gWaVuEEy

2% of the world’s carbon emissions come from traditional stoves, and 3.7 million people die yearly due to air pollution caused by conventional stoves. Check out aidafrica.net to learn more about what we have done to address this problem in Uganda.

Women in rural Uganda often have to venture many miles to fetch unsafe and unsanitary water, increasing the risks of getting waterborne diseases such as cholera, and decreasing the opportunity for women to get an education due to their journeys to fetch water. Many people would often bathe and wash their clothes in the same water source due to the lack of infrastructure for clean water. In order to fight this problem, we recently drilled wells that serve for four districts, Omoro, Nwoya, Gulu, and Amuru. Within these districts, there are 1000 villages, all of which benefit from the wells created by Aid Africa.

Happy Giving Tuesday! If you are looking for a worthy nonprofit to support this year, I ask you to check out Aid Africa! Aid Africa partners with impoverished communities in Sub-Saharan Africa manufacturing and distributing energy efficient cookstoves, providing clean water by digging and repairing wells, providing birthing kits and health clinics, and planting trees for food, indigenous income, and reforestation. Please consider donating today and joining me on our next trip to Uganda in July 2025! ???????? https://lnkd.in/gHc88mPB

Household smoke from using wood as fuel leads to almost 4 million premature deaths each year, making it the world's third-biggest cause of early mortality for women and children, after heart disease and strokes. https://lnkd.in/gfBmxfSs Donate to Aid Africa and help distribute clean cookings stoves to the women of Gulu, Uganda. www.aidafrica.net

Recently we also produced a total of 34 portable commercial stoves. We installed two fixed stoves with a chimney designed and made a prototype for a chimney stove. The chimney stove is performing very well and we are sampling a few selected households in the community to see how much difference can be felt of the particulate matter (PM) arising from wood fuel usage in a rocket stove with a chimney. Due to the high cost associated with inviting a testing Laboratory (CREEC) to Gulu we are designing a portable rocket stove with chimney to be to taken to Kampala for testing. To learn more about our stove program visit aidafrica.net

This summer we added 10 more breadfruit trees to the existing 13 trees, totaling 23 breadfruits trees at the tree nursery! We are excited to continue watching them grow! Read the flyer to learn more about our breadfruit tree program.

Recently we have drilled two wells serving 332 homes with a total population of 1,992 people! We also repaired 8 boreholes serving a total population of 9,570 people! To learn how to get involved with our water projects, visit aidafrica.net ????????

A stove update: Last month we repaired 22 stoves at St. Mary’s hospital, maintained 10 stoves at Awach, repaired firing kilns and the drying rack, laid 1036 bricks for commercial stoves, and delivered 8 trips of saw dust to the brick site. More updates to come on our new stove prototype with a chimney!