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The need for transport becomes clear while monitoring a project like our goats project.  In total, we have now given 66 orphans a goat which is meant to help the children pay for their school fees, school materials, school uniforms and other necessities like clothes, medicine, food because the children can breed the goats, sell offspring etc.  This august 2010 we have given the last 20 orphans a goat.  From now on, the project can exist on its own as the orphans pass on the first female offspring to one another.  However, it still requires close monitoring by Hope Alive Uganda.  The orphans whom we have selected to be given a goat come from several places, like Kisozi, Bukyatifu,  Bugumira, Bagwanga and Bubago.  The places are remote places, the orphans sometimes live at a very far distance.  Monitoring this project takes a lot of energy and it takes several days to finish another round of monitoring this project.  Hope Alive Uganda doesn't have a project vehicle or motorcycle and thus depends on hiring a boda boda or asking a boda boda driver to drive us to these remote places to monitor the projects.   Can you imagine what it takes for children to come all the way to school in Kisozi every day and go back early in the evening!  And they need to walk these long distances 7 days a week too!   A project vehicle is crucial for our organisation, as it can help the children who need to come from a long distance get to school safely and helps them to prevent missing a lot of education.  Besides that, a project vehicle would mean that the money invested now in hiring a boda boda each year can be saved and invested in other needs the children registered with Hope Alive Uganda have.  It can even be an income generating activity for Hope Alive Uganda, which enables Hope Alive Uganda to exist and continue the projects we are running to support children, women, youths....

Eddy Kiirya Mpoya

Hope Alive Uganda was founded in 2008 and we literally started with nothing.  2 years later, in 2010, we are an organization that is officially registered in both Uganda and the Netherlands and we are a growing organization.

We managed to set up several projects in Kisozi and established several cooperations that make it possible to run our projects.  We have a goats project, a chicken project, a tailoring project and together with Cycling out of poverty we can run a cycling to school project.  Also we do "smaller" things, like supporting orphans with beds and matrasses and handing out free glasses to those people that need it but can't afford to buy a pair of glasses.