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HOPE Ofiriha

Oslo, Norway

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The following people have worked with HOPE Ofiriha. Contact them to learn about their experiences!

thando ngwenya

johannesburg, South Africa

work with children, Africa

Tashell Mitchell

Marian Bah

Freetown, Sierra Leone

teaching, work with children, Asia, Africa

George Ojow

mombasa, Kenya

teaching, work with children, Africa

Thomas Reid

Mission Statement

We empower women and children living in rural communities to overcome social injustice, disease, illiteracy, and poverty. Our small-scale interventions enhance their social and economic well being and help them reach their potential.

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Partner Overview:

Year Founded: 1996 Year Joined Omprakash: 2005 # of staff: 4 Total Donations Received: $1,865.00

Director Bio

William Ochieng William Logai Ochieng, Norway, became Executive Director and joined forces with Linda Acen Abili to expand Hope Ofiriha’s mission to helping women and children throughout Magwi County and in Uganda. As Executive Director, he oversees fundraising, project management, and budgeting. He is in weekly contact with the staff members and volunteers in Sudan and Uganda, who provide him with progress reports on the projects. William also regularly visits Magwi County to keep an eye on how the organization is running, develop new projects, train and empower the team.

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Travel Logistics

Our project currently accepts short or long-term volunteers. You need to be very enthusiastic, proactive individual, hard-working and motivated and must be able able to work under your own initiative in rural areas. Housing arrangements for volunteers are made on a case-by-case basis, but this can include home stays with a local Sudanese family, or stay at Magwi Lodge for $15 per night.

Current Projects:

Healthcare:
Hope Ofiriha’s healthcare projects focus on reducing child mortality rates, preserving mothers’ lives, and preventing and combating HIV infection. We run a health clinic and a maternity clinic in two remote villages.
Microcredit:
Our microcredit projects give small loans to women to help them start their own businesses.
Environment:
Our environmental projects combat deforestation, improve environmental health, and promote environmental awareness and conservation.
Agriculture:
Our agricultural projects are aimed at diversifying crops, increasing food supplies, and improving farming and rural business practices. They mostly target rural women farmers who are heads of their households.
Child Sponsorship:
We find sponsors for the children of South Sudanese refugees living in slums in the outskirts of Kampala, Uganda. Many of these children are war orphans. Child sponsorship not only pays the fees necessary for these children to attend school, it ensures they are fed, clothed, and receive regular medical
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Education:
We invest more in education than any other type of project because we strongly believe literacy is the ticket out of poverty. We fund the construction of school buildings and work to ensure children, especially girls and war orphans, stay in school.

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