## **Project Embabazi Newsletter 2022-23** ## **2022 news and Project Embabazi achievements** On Monday 10[th] January 2022, Ugandan schools reopened after nearly two years of closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic – the longest school shutdown in the world. This was some good news in a year of growing challenges for rural Uganda communities; the Bank of Uganda reported soaring inflation due to a combination of factors including global economic decline, the Russia-Ukraine conflict disrupting global production and supply chains, extended drought in some regions of the country and increased global commodity prices. The Bank of Uganda Deputy Governor said the soaring food inflation is hitting the poorest Ugandans hard; _“Food inflation has soared over the past year, from 0.7% in February 2022 to 16.4% in July 2022. This adversely affects poorest who are mainly engaged in informal activities and spend a large proportion of their incomes on food.”_ - Project Embabazi has organised several fundraising campaigns in 2022 to support our Ugandan communities and to bring hope in the face of so many challenges. Thanks to our generous supporters, we have raised £30,722 and we have many successes to share… • Our teacher and child sponsorship schemes continues to grow with new donors and beneficiaries. Sponsorship ensures that each child consistently attends a good school with all necessary resources for ‘Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world’ (Nelson Mandela). Please see our Facebook and Instagram pages for more details. - • We have continued to grow our animal sponsorship schemes in Kanjobe, Kamuronko, Kyeibale, Rwiraguju and Kigata communities. All beneficiaries are required to give the first offspring to another member of the community, creating a self-sustaining project. - • We are trailing a new scheme to provide reusable female sanitary projects to tackle the enormous challenge of period poverty. • We have continued to provide educational resources for schools including textbooks for Kanjobe Primary School. • We continue to support 2 community enterprises: Kanjobe Choir and Kanjobe Craft Cooperative. • We ran 2 successful events to fundraise for our ongoing community electrification project. In May 2022, our ‘Race for Uganda’ raised over £5,000 followed by ‘Novembabazi’ which raised £380. The National Grid has been extended into the villages, but households lack the funds needed to install an electricity meter (c. £167). We have launched a cost-sharing initiative to connect 1,144 households and public buildings to the National Grid; Project Embabazi contributes 80% of the cost and the household contributes 20%. This project addresses the basic need for electricity for sustainable development; it will radically improve living standards and educational resources and it will unleash huge potential for further development in the area. - • We have provided 45 desks for 3 classrooms at Kyeibale Primary School so that students no longer sit on a dusty floor. • Building projects were completed at 3 primary schools and 2 secondary schools including classrooms, staff houses and a latrine. ## **What next for 2023?** - Our ongoing community electrification project across the 5 village communities, including electricity connections at 3 schools. In 2021, 97% of Ugandan electricity came from renewable sources so it is affordable and green once the meters are installed. - • School building projects at 3 primary schools (Kanjobe, Kyeibale and Rwiraguju) and 2 secondary schools (Kamuronko and Kigata) • A new latrine for Kyeibale Primary School – currently there is 1 latrine for all students, staff, and church members. The queue is long! • School desks for Rwiraguju Primary School – Project Embabazi helped to build new classrooms and now they need desks • New latrines for Kamuronko Secondary School – the girls’ latrine is almost full and the boys’ collapsed during heavy rains • 4 school cows for Kamuronko Secondary School for teaching lessons in agriculture, for milk production and as a source of manure to grow food for the school All communities have requested ongoing investment in animal sponsorship, school construction projects and teaching resources for art, sport, music and libraries. We are excited by the growth in our child sponsorship scheme and hope to find more new donors for next year. **Thank you to all our generous supporters!** You are helping us to make a real difference in impoverished communities **Who are we?** www.projectembabazi.org.uk Project Embabazi is a registered UK charity (no. 1161140) established to work with Bakiga communities in rural south-western Uganda to prevent and relieve poverty by providing funding, training and support for sustainable community projects. Please have a look at our website, Facebook or Instagram page to find out more about our projects, including child, electricity and animal sponsorship schemes, school building and equipment projects and our gift cards. If you are interested in supporting us, please get in touch via projectembabazi@outlook.com A message from Byamukama Dicky, Ugandan Co-ordinator: It’s human nature to seek happiness but this is difficult to realise in places suffering from abject poverty, hunger, poor education, and diseases. In southwestern Uganda, among the ethnic Bakiga community, Project Embabazi has continued to support the local people. The charity has been a champion of reversing household misery by funding community projects since 2022. Project Embabazi works with the local community leaders and in-country volunteering staff to provide solutions to local problems. In the last year, this has included the following projects: **Ecosan toilet** : a new composting toilet was completed at Kanjobe Primary school **School Kitchen:** constructed at Kanjobe Primary School to feed the teachers and boarding students **Animal Sponsorship** : The data below shows the success of this scheme which has improved diets and income: |diets and income:||||| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Cows|Goats|Piglets|Chicken| |Kanjobe area Communities|10|31|67|108| |Kyeibale area Communities|6|36|70|98| |Kamuronko area Communities|16|53|94|132| |Rwiraguju area Communities|4|20|41|90| |Kigata area Communities|3|9|32|52| |Kategure area Communities
(New)|n/a|n/a|7|6| **School fees sponsorships** : this success is increasing educational opportunities in the community and the opportunity for self-reliance. **Community electrification** : Once beneficiary households, churches, schools, the health clinic finally get connected to power, life will never be the same. Imagine a community that has never tasted electricity since the creation of the universe! Electricity will trigger the masses to start up cottage industries thus creation of employment and ultimately lead to financial break through. **School construction projects** : there is ongoing work to construct classrooms, latrines and staff houses at 3 primary schools and 2 secondary schools. ## **Appreciation:** On behalf the local community beneficiaries and my own behalf, we extend our appreciation to the Project Chair, Trustees and all stakeholders that have supported Project Embabazi to carry out its mandate. There is enormous evidence of community transformation in the supported region. There is a genuine appeal from the neighbouring communities that have always yearned to be supported as well. If this request can fit within the strategic plan and budget of the charity, so it be. Together, we can reverse the poverty levels that cause human suffering in our communities. After all, a candle loses nothing for lighting another. Wishing you all a happy 2023. Byamukama Dicky **Project Co-ordinator (U)** ## **Project Embabazi 2022-23 in photos** Kanjobe Primary School Ecosan latrine Community electrification Animal sponsorship scheme > Classrooms after floor cementing Kanjobe Primary School in donated uniform Classrooms before floor cementing Kanjobe Craft Cooperative basket weaving Kanjobe Craft Cooperative sewing bags Kyeibale Primary School class prior to desk donation PTole¢t Embabazl Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period from 0110112022 3111212022 Section A Receipts and payments Llnrestricted funds lo the nearest Endowmant funds to the neaiest £ Restrlcted fund$ Total funds Last year to tro nearest £ to ttro n￿reSt £ tot￿ I￿ar@¥t £ A1 Recei t$ School Fees S Tp8ch8r S Peter S rnnd8 Coil e Cbn?tion tknnalions Craft Thnations Pro g¢ls Fund Animal S ststshi Ènds Gill Aid ￿lUrnd Sub total(Gmss inGome forAR) onsotshi 8,974 1.140 8,974 1.14 8.229 1,140 3,469 1.375 21,607 Evenis 7.049 7.049 655 240 7,880 26.775 240 7,8811 30.244 240 J.469 3t,981 A2 Asset and investment $ale$, l$ee table NIA Sub total Totalreceipts 3,469 26,775 30,244 31,98t A3Pa ments SchoDI Fees Sptsnsotship T&acher Sponsorship Crall th-OpÈraiivÈ Aniwl Sponsorship &hery Slipends and in-touniry vOlunt8er pxpensgs Other 8.787 1,186 47 880 700 300 700 650 435 1.035 3,592 19,384 347 350 135 Building Projects Trustee Insvrance Accounis Review. ￿b*it& & mis¢8llaneou$ 348 330 330 487 Sub total 1,678 7,663 9,341 35,047 A4 As$et and investm8nt purchases, Isee table) Sub total Totalpayments 1,678 7,663 9,341 35,047 Net of recelpts/(payrnents) A5 Trdnsfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year Ènd Cash funds this year end 1,791 19,112 20.903 3,066 7.013 7,613 10,679 9,404 19.112 2B,516 7,613 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestricted funds to noargst £ Restricted funds Endowment funil$ tD nèar8*t £ Categories DÈtai1s to near•Gt £ B1 Cash funds 9.404 19.112 Tolal cash funds 9.404 19,112 CCXX R1 acixjunls ISSI Unrèstrfd•d R￿Irf￿ funds Endowment fund# funds to n￿r•￿t £ Detal B2 othor m¢)n•tary assets Details B3 Inveskn•nt a88•ts Details B4 Assets r•taln•dfor the ¢harlty's own u•e Detai15 B5 U•bilit zaae Signed by one orts4Y¥ on behav of aThtha Iru8tèO• Dat8 of approval HI io CCXX R2 8c(•unts Issi 2811012023 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Roport to the twsto0s1 membors of Project Embabazi On accounts for the year •ndgd 31 December 2022 Charlty no Ilf any) 1161140 Set out on pages 1 and 2 of CC16a aitscl*d l ￿pOrt lo the Iruslees on my examination of the accounts of the abov8 charity llhe Trusfi for the year 8nded 3111212022 Respon$lblllth8 and As th6 charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsib￿ for the P￿paratIOn basls of r8POrt of the accounts in accordance wf(h the requiremanls of thè Charities Act 2011 {"Ihe A(r}. I report in resp8d of my examinat￿n of the Trust's accounts carried out under ￿tiOn 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrylng out my exambnalon. I have ft￿lowed the aWi¢able Direelions given by the Charity Commission under section 14q5Mbl of the Act. I have completed my examinat￿￿. I confimi that no maledal matters have come lo my attention in connection with the examination which gives me C8U8e to b8li6ve that in. any material resped.. accounting records were nol kept in accordance with sectlon 130 of th6 Act or the accounts do not a1x￿d wilh the accounting records I have no concems and have c¢Nne across no other matters in connèctlon with the examinatiw to whith attention should be drawn In order lo enab16 a proper undgrstanding of the accounts lo be reached. Slgn•d: 2911012023 Name: Kenneth John Stratton Rglgvant professlonal quallf5catlonls) or body (Sf any): Felk)w Member of the Assc¢lallon of A¢¢wnlir@ Tg¢hniGians 6195080 Address: Brewery House. High Street, Twyt¢xd, Winchester, S021 1 RG Section Disc105ure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32. Independent examination of tharity accounts.. directions and guidance for examiners). IER October 2018 Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wlshes to disclose. IER October 2018