EVERGREEN AFRICA
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Mission Statement
Evergreen Africa is a UK registered charity established in 2014. It provides support in the areas of health and education and ensures sustainability through income‐generation projects. Evergreen is supported by ‘Friends’ providing regular donations, and raises funds through the organisation of fundraising activities and applications to grant-making Trusts, Foundations and Corporations. The Charity is governed by a Board of Trustees, and managed on a day-to-day basis by a volunteer CEO. It is registered with the Fundraising Regulator. In UK, the Charity is run by volunteers working from home, so sums spent on administration are kept low. In Uganda, we have one locally-engaged employee who co-ordinates our programme, delivers some of the projects herself, and liaises with our implementing partner to ensure delivery of the rest.
About This Cause
THE NEED The area in which Evergreen operates features rural villages on the Wanale Ridge, Mbale District, Uganda, where some 25,000 people live in extreme poverty (as defined by the UN). The populace is almost entirely dependent on help, there being virtually no legitimate means of employment available beyond subsistence farming. Health is poor, the area needs significant affordable schooling and there is a dire need for income-generation to raise the entire populace above the UN-defined poverty level. THE STRATEGY Together with community leaders and local development experts, we have evolved a strategy for development of the area addressing each of the areas of need, with the whole programme backed by sustainability activities, which will ultimately allow the community to be self-sustaining. The eventual aim is a robust infrastructure delivering community‐funded support. The strategy is aligned with the UN Strategic Development Goals and is being further developed to complement the Ugandan Government’s ‘Vision 2040’. THE BACKGROUND In 2014 & 2015 we established 5 Village Savings & Loan schemes (VS&LS) for the empowerment of women and delivered a goat-farming income-generation project to alleviate the plight of impoverished widows. In 2016 we piloted a Community Health Promoters (CHP) Level One training course and followed this in 2017 by piloting a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course for the graduates. In 2017 we established a nursery school in a community building. In that year a coffee-roasting facility was also established. In 2018 and 2019, Evergreen trained two further CHP Level One courses in other remote areas on the Ridge and provided CPD courses for those already trained. Also in 2019 we provided the nursery school with a bespoke building and established a Market Garden to provide an income for those engaged on it, and to return funds to help sustain the operation of the nursery school. In 2020 we trained CHPs to level 2 and provided CPD. In early 2020 we piloted a Menstrual Health initiation programme in the first of 7 primary schools on the Ridge. We piloted a smaller annual programme in 2021 while extending the initiation programme to the second school. Also in 2021 we expanded our VS&LS programme with a further 8 Schemes and established an Agricultural Vocational Training Centre (AVTC). In 2022 we further extended our Menstrual Health programme to another school and our CHP programme with a second Level 2 training, and piloted our Young Mothers programme. In 2023 we enhanced the VS&LS with an additional 8 groups, and extended the Young Mothers programme to 3 streams, and in 2024 established the Young Mothers Internship programme for the better-able graduates. Also in 2024 we commenced training three Healthcare Professionals (one nurse, one midwife and a laboratory technician). In 2025, as well as maintaining our Goat, VS&LS, Young Mothers and school programmes, operating our AVTC, providing CPD for both levels of CHPs & continuing the Healthcare Professionals’ training, we are rolling out the Menstrual Health Initiation programme to the 6th school, providing Annual programmes to the first 5 schools, and establishing an Allotment programme extension to our AVTC with the aim of positively lifting destitute farmers out of poverty.