UCARE Project

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UCare Project is a non-profit organization working to start sustainable projects that will change the future for children at risk.

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Here is a small summary of who we are and what we do, in English.
If you speak Norwegian, please go to our web page, www.ucareproject.com to learn more.


ABOUT US
We are a non-profit foundation. Our vision is to reduce child mortality. We want to start sustainable projects that will change the future for children at risk!

We want to reduce child mortality by ensuring that children receive food, safety and education. Ucare project is an independent organization. Our administration consists solely of voluntaries, meaning that 100% of the contributions goes directly to our projects. We attempt to involve the locals in our projects in order for them to become sustainable in the long run.
The leader and founder of the organization, Lovise, got the inspiration for her work during a period as a volunteer in Arusha, Tanzania in 2013. Together with Eirik, her boyfriend, she started a knitting project in February 2014. The project consisted of knitting wool-incubators for newborns and premature babies in Arusha. Eirik has also worked as a volunteer in Equador. They are both in medical school, and want to dedicate their lives to helping others.
In the summer of 2014, the organization Unconditional Care Project was founded in cooperation with several other medical students, who also participated on the same trip to Arusha. We now have a board consisting of ten members, with different areas of knowledge and experience.


OUR PROJECTS:
Today we have three active projects: Project Kisumu, A Warm Welcome and Children´s Education Project.

PROJECT KISUMU:
In Project Kisumu we are building and running a development center in Kisumu, Kenya. The project got started because of our friend Maurice. Maurice is from Kisumu, he is married, has two children and works as a pastor in a local church. When Maurice was born, he lost his mother. Twelve years later, he became an orphan when he lost his father to HIV/AIDS. Maurice has managed to make a good life for himself, and carries a dream of helping the orphans in his city. Maurice does what he can to help the children by giving them food and school uniforms.
By building a development center in Kisumu, we are helping Maurice realizing his dream. We want to create a safe environment, where the childen at greatest risk will recieve help. The children will recieve two meals per day. We want to increase their quality of life through contact with adults that have plenty of love to give, social community with other children, and make sure they recieve nutritious food. There will also be facilitated time for different activities such as singing, sport and teaching them to become independent through education. The children will be taught about nutrition, hygiene, agriculture and respect for each other. Because we believe that education is the key to fighting poverty, there will also be specific times of day when the children will do their homework in groups.

Please help us by donating to our cause!

Bank account: 1503.54.84369
BIC: DNBANOKKXXX
IBAN: NO3115035484385


A WARM WELCOME PROJECT:
Premature and newborn babies need to be kept warm the first period of their life. Even if they are from warm countries in Africa, they are vulnerable. This is because they don`t have the ability to regulate their body temperature. Without sufficient heat, the baby may develop many complications, the worst of which is death. Since there is poor or nonexistent access to incubators, we are knitting wool-incubators!
By knitting wool clothing, meaning hats, blankets, socks, and mittens, we are helping the babies to keep warm. A large proportion of the loss of body warmth is lost through the baby’s head. Therefore, even such a simple thing as a wool-hat is very effective!
The wool-incubators are being delivered to a baby-orphanage and several hospitals in Arusha (Tanzania), and to clinics in Uganda.

Please help us to give these little ones a warm welcome into this world!

The wool-incubators can be delivered or sent to the following addresses in Norway:
• The Hospital in Vestfold.
• Lovise Myhre. Address: Nedre Bogenvei 30B, 3150 Tolvsrød, NORWAY.
• Else H. Åsebø. Address: Juviknipa 44, 5918 Frekhaug, NORWAY.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions!

CHILDREN´S EDUCATION PROJECT:
With this project we are founding primary school for the children in Kisumu, Kenya.
100% of the donations goes directly to finance a child’s education. 500 kr (approx. 55EUR / 65 USD) is enough to pay for one year of school for one child.

Please help us by donating!

Bank account: 1503.54.84385
BIC: DNBANOKKXXX
IBAN: NO3115035484385