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The Need

As you can imagine, the needs in Uganda are great. The plight of the women

and children there has moved me to accept the Off the Mat Into the World® 2010

Seva Challenge to raise significant funds for Shanti Uganda and to support the

Off the Mat® commitment to offer my heart, my hands, and my resources in joyful, practical service.


The Challenge

There are many ways you can give selfless service and be a part of our Blooming in Uganda seva. Help build momentum for our work by bringing

your joyful self to our fundraising events, and please donate directly (choose Sarah Longacre/Blooming in Uganda from the Seva Challenge list) to

our fundraising efforts. I am asking for your support of my effort to raise $20,000 by December 15, 2009, to help with the construction of a birthing center in Uganda and to help provide safe, sterile birthing kits to the

mamas-to-be there.


Your Donation

Your contributions to Blooming in Uganda, which directly support Shanti Uganda, are tax deductible. They are easy to make (click the Donate button!), and even as little as $15 provides a lot:


$15     

One birth kit includes everything a birthing woman needs for a safe, clean and empowered birth

$125

Provide 25 teen girls with reusable menstrual pads and increase their chances of going to school. 


$250

Purchase a sewing machine and supplies for one woman to join Shanti Uganda's Income Generating Group


$300

A midwife's salary for one month


$500   

Build a community chicken coop and supply pregnant women with eggs to improve their nutritional intake and reduce the maternal mortality rates associated with poor nutrition.

$1000

Build a small water catchment system

$1000 

Covers the cost of Shanti Uganda’s university scholarship program for one year

$10,000

Supply the Birth House and entire community with running water


$15,000

Purchase an emergency transport vehicle to transfer birthing women with complications from the Birth House to the nearby hospital

$50,000 

Build a birth house and save the lives of thousands of pregnant women and babies.

Birthing Kit


For $15 YOU can be
at a birth in Uganda!


Birth Kits

The Shanti Uganda birth kits decrease the risk of infection and bleeding for both mother and baby. They are filled with the basic supplies a woman needs to have her baby with safety and health in mind and are used by the birthing women at Bishop Asili Clinic in Kasana. The kits, created by Mama Goddess Birth Shop, include a reusable menstrual pad from Lunapads.


Each birth kit contains:

• 1 pair of sterile exam  
   gloves

• 1 umbilical cord tie

• 1 sterile disposable
   scalpel (for cutting  
   cord)

• 2 blue chux pads

• 2 disposable towels

• 2 packages of sterile
   gauze pads

• 1 sterile bulb syringe

• 1 plastic bag for
   placenta

• 1 waterproof sheet

• 2 packages of
   Lubricant gel

• 4 alcohol prep pad

• 1 reusable pad and liner


Donate Now



Select Sarah Longacre/Blooming in Uganda from the Seva Challenge list when you make your tax-deductible contribution.