ORGANIZATION RECORD
Location: Mpigi, Uganda
Website: http://mountains-ofhope.com/
Mission: To empower marginalized rural communities regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, or faith. The organization addresses the basic needs of vulnerable children and their communities by providing them skills and resources to develop into healthy, caring, and confident individuals.
Year Founded: 2009
Preferred method of contact: Email, Skype
Project Information:
- Availability for Summer 2017: Mountains of Hope is likely working with University of North Carolina for a second year.
- Future Project Ideas:
- Will be undertaking an orphanage project, as well as microfinance and piggery projects in future years, which interns could collaborate on.
- Interns could contribute IT and computer literacy skills to help develop websites to support programs
- Mountains of Hope is interested in having a role in selecting project interns.
- Accommodations: Homestay
- Reported program costs to students:
- Program In-country Costs (reported by partner):
- Accommodations: $185/student
- Food: $375/student
- Transport: $200/student
- Laundry: $200/student
- Average Total Costs (reported by interns – includes airfare, accommodations, visa, vaccinations, spending money, etc.): $2,750
- Range of reported total intern costs: $2,500-$3,000
- Program In-country Costs (reported by partner):
Partnership History:
- Summer 2016
- Chapter(s): University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Project: Comprehensive and Sustainable menstruation-management through making of reusable sanitary towels
- Investment: $5,600
- Project team: 4 interns
- Project Blog
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