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MAAPF is focused to boost opportunities for Ugandan kids to live without malaria.
For over five decades Mother Teo and her family have been treating women and their children in rural Uganda. In parts of the country where malaria complicates pregnancies and kills thousands of infants critical healthcare can be rare. MAAPF is working with these healthcare heroes at St Jude Clinic in Nakafuma, Uganda to bridge that gap
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Bishop Francis Aquirinus Kibera
A heartfelt greetings from Bishop Francis Aquirinus Kibera of Kasese Diocese, Uganda, East Africa.
Monthly Donors Give Hope to Uganda’s Poor
Anna Latzel and Ellie Klein
“Learning about Mother Teo’s fierce determination to help the sickest and poorest women and children in Uganda opened my heart and inspired me to become a MAAP Foundation monthly donor,” said Anna Latzel.
Anna recalls the first time her friend and former colleague, Deacon Don Grossnickle, returned from Africa after attending the ordination of a dear friend.
“Don told me how he toured the poorest areas of Uganda where he met Mother Teo, who was running a clinic for women and babies. She shared stories of pregnant women who had to walk miles to get medical care. Some women were in labor as they walked. My heart opened wide as Don shared Mother Teo’s frustration at not having enough medicine and supplies to help all the mothers and babies in need.”
“Shortly thereafter, I contacted Don and asked how I could help. I have a limited income, but I wanted to set aside money every month to give to this cause. The first time I sent a gift, Don thanked me profusely,” she said.
“I really believe The MAAP Foundation was Godsent to me. Mother Teo has a healing touch that gives women hope. To think that my friend, Don, was changed by meeting this woman touches the core of my heart. Each year as I see the improvements in the clinics, I feel confident that my gift is saving lives.”
what We Do
health care
Work in our clinics has saved mothers’ lives during childbirth. We also have provided medicine and bed nets for each of our supported clinics.
commerce
Our mission is to save lives threatened by complicated malaria. US donors lend cows who give milk and pigs to exchange for medicine in our supported clinics.
Areas We’ve Helped
We have helped clinics across Uganda in Bikira, Kampala, Kkonge, Lugazi, Luwero, Masaka, and Nakifuma.
Help Us make a difference
What We’ve Achieved So Far
$138,000
Raised toward medical supplies including: delivery room bed, clinical microscope for Malaria, 2 ultrasound machines, and Malaria intervention bed nets
$50,900
Raised toward 30+ dairy cows, a piggery, barn, fish farm, and poultry breeding farm
$5,645
Raised toward food and Malaria medicine
Timeline
2014–2016:
Nakifuma – microscope / medical equipment / medicine
2016:
Nakifuma – ultrasound machines ($9000)
2017:
Bikira Farmers and Clinic – 18 cows ($18,000)
2018:
Nakifuma – piggery / barn for medicine ($8,000)
Kkonge – 8 cows ($8,000)
Kkonge – barn, a breeding farm for clinic / sub parishes ($5,000)
2019:
Kkonge – Phase 2: education / malaria prevention
Nakifuma – 2 cows / barn for sustainable medicine
2020:
Nakifuma – fully equipped remodeled surgery center ($25,000)
2021:
2022:
Dear Donors
Thank you for caring so much about us and our work in our clinic. You started by generously sharing gifts so we can provide medicine. You donated: exam tables, an ultrasound, a lab microscope. You gave us a piggery and cows so we have sustainable support to keep our doors open. In 2019, you invested $22,000 to equip a new village surgery center. Your kindness has created many miracles. We have grown greatly since you came as angels in 2014. We thank God for your grace in encouraging us. So many are helped because of you. Mothers and babies in particular are helped to live. Thank You from the bottom of our hearts.
Teo Nakawundu
St. Jude Clinic Director
Opening Healthcare Doors for the Poor
A crisis exists when mothers and children come to a clinic desperate for service but have no money. The last thing my compassionate clinic staff want to do is send away sick and poor moms and children with no medicine or treatment
Sister Marcelline Kabura, clinic director, Kasese Diocese
“In our crisis we have turned twice to US friends of MAAPFOUNDATION to create a money source and together started a small pig and poultry farm for two villages. US donors helped us get started and now we have hope. Profits can bring in $500 a month on average , so we are now able to pay 250 basic clinic visits for each farm. This means a total of 500-$2.00 clinic visits can be paid per month,- (that we sadly might have had to turn away.”)
The Beating Heart of MAAPFOUNDATION Mission
Since 2013, MAAPFOUNDATION Projects have proudly helped sponsor the following village created ideas that each contribute ongoing sustainable funds to continue giving access to clinical care of the poor:
Healing Uganda Mothers and Babies First as Priority
An Ever Expanding List of Sustainable Money Making Projects Villages Leaders Propose
3 pig farms
5 Dairy Farms
Coffee and bean Farm
Retail pharmacy
Surgical Center
Malaria and Ultrasound Lab
Corn farm
Family Vegetable Home Crops
Learning and Practicing Business Skills
Not only do the projects pay Hospital bills for impoverished, the village becomes self sufficient learning agribusiness and Microfinance skills so the community can continue to grow strong and break the cycle of dependence. A goal is for each village to be able to receive funding from a local bank source as they present skills and successful experiences
Father Mbusa explains what he calls “African Ubuntu”: we work together.
“Bringing people together is what I call ‘ubuntu”, which means
“I am because we are”
Far too often people think of themselves as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and “What you do affects the whole World
When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity”
Desmond Tutu