Help us rein in the yoke of poverty in our region, in these 5 unhumanly ways

The 5 unhumanly ways:

Help us stem the ever-resurgent grip of poverty in our region by 2030, by working with us on our intended plant in these 5 unhumanly ways:

1). Let’s develop this plant by exploring Busoga, and Uganda.

Between March 2023 & December 31, 2030, make the UCF your second home, or your getaway home in Uganda, where you can come and stay with us whenever you are free.

We will arrange your airport transfer both to and from the UCF (all costs covered by us), and every weekend, we will take you on a tour of some of Busoga’s renowned tourist sites (The Source of the Nile River in Jinja; Rafting on the Nile; Bird watching in Mabira forest; climbing of Kagulu Hill in Buyende etc). Transport to these sites will be provided free by the UCF, you only pay entrance fees (if any) at these sites. (Tip).

Similarly, if you would like to visit other tourist places elsewhere in Uganda (outside Busoga), for example one of the many national parks in Uganda, the UCF will provide you with free transport up to Kampala, from where you can then connect with one of the tour agencies there, to complete your journey (we can also help you find the right agency).

While at the UCF, local food & onsite accommodation will be available free, or you can choose to stay at a hotel in Kamuli town (22km away).

In turn, we only need you to bring us friends from your network, who can help us raise the needed support for our intended plant, or those who can contribute to the development of this plant in any other way.

To work with us this way, email unhumanly@ugandafarm.org

2). Let’s raise the needed money as one unhumanly team.

Make a contribution via our current fundraiser for this plant.

Most importantly, create your own “support campaign” on our behalf, by visiting the above fundraiser, and tapping “support”.

Note: only those fundraisers that are created via the “support” button on our main fundraiser above, are the ones that will be considered as raising money on our behalf. Any money raised from such fundraisers will be automatically added to our main fundraiser above.

Also, if you wish to create a fundraiser on our behalf on a totally different platform e.g. GoFundMe, please first let us know via email, and we will list your fundraiser on a page entitled “list of current support fundraisers” on this website. That page will be created soon.

Only those fundraisers under our “list of current support fundraisers” are the ones that will be considered as raising money on our behalf.

Here is the sample text you can use to create a fundraiser on our behalf.

You can also help us raise the needed support by making a wire transfer, or through employee workplace giving and corporate giving, using the information on this page.

I will be communicating weekly via twitter.com/KaluluAnthony, the total amount that we have raised across all platforms, i.e, online, wire transfer and employee workplace giving.

3). Let the world know what we are doing.

Let’s have only one lead international volunteer (e.g. a retiree) to stay permanently at the UCF, and to be responsible for recruiting only 4 other international volunteers to also stay permanently at the UCF, so we can have a total of 5 international volunteers staying permanently at the UCF at any given time, between March 2023 and Dec 31, 2030*.

Purpose is threefold:

These 5 international volunteers, together with 5 other people from the UCF, will form our finance team that will be responsible for overseeing how the money we have raised for this plant is spent, and sharing with our supporters across the globe the progress we have made thus far.
During the installation of this plant, we will seek technical assistance from people like TechoServe, Partners in Food Solutions, AfrII.org, Natural Resources Institute UK & specialized entities like Alvan Blanch. Our 5 permanent international volunteers, together with people from the UCF, will be responsible for liaising w/ people from these agencies.
Most importantly, these 5 international volunteers, together with people from the UCF, will be responsible for handling the legal process, to ensure that the ownership structure for this plant remains exactly as we have envisioned, i.e., 80% by local farmers, and 20% by the UCF.

The other thing these 5 vols could help with, is volunteer scheduling.

* These 5 international volunteers, each can stay at the UCF for any duration of their choosing (3 months, one year etc), but the role of the lead volunteer is to ensure that when one of these 5 people is leaving, a replacement is in place before that person leaves, so we can still have a team of 5 international volunteers at the UCF at a given time.

To be the lead international volunteer, who will then act as coordinator in charge of recruiting the other 4, email unhumanly@ugandafarm.org

4). Let’s lock in this work with an international Board.

To me, the grip of poverty in my region by far supersedes my own interests, or my personal love for money.

I come from a pretty screwed background, and since every other household across my region lives in abject poverty, my only goal is to contribute to a real end to the grip of poverty in our region, not to enrich myself or those around me.

The UCF is a nonprofit social enterprise, not a for-profit business.

Our intended plant, on the other hand, shall be primarily registered as an independent business entity, but will be designated as a property of the UCF, owned 80% by the rural poor farmers who will be growing the crops that this plant will be working on, with the other 20% owned by the UCF as a way of sustaining our underlying work of training and supporting rural poor farmers in our region.

Let’s lock in just that, by placing the work of the UCF in the hands of an international Board, to ensure that the UCF (and our intended plant, or its ownership structure) operate exactly that way, even when I am gone.

Let that Board comprise ten people — 5 people from the global north; one person from the UCF (the current director); three local farmers’ representatives from the farmers’ cooperatives that will be supplying produce to our plant, and one person from the local government, e.g. a District Agriculture Officer.

Currently, other than our field team that works with our sorghum farmers, the UCF doesn’t have a Board, and the reason is strategic.

In Africa, unfortunately, a Board doesn’t usually function the same way as in the west, where Board members often help raise support to enable the organization grow. In Africa, until your organization is financially stable (which the UCF isn’t), a Board can instead be a burden.

Rather than helping your organization grow, most Board members instead except your organization to facilitate them, and that is why the UCF has remained with no Board to date.

To nominate yourself as a prospective international Board member of the UCF and our intended plant, email unhumanly@ugandafarm.org

5). Large donations, and tax deductibility:

If by sheer chance we happen to get some big supporters who are willing to help us raise money for this plant, but who are either a) afraid of making a large donation directly to the UCF e.g. for security reasons, which may be a valid reason, or b) who would like to get tax deduction for their donation, which the UCF can’t provide…

Let’s have one volunteering 501(c)(3) nonprofit say from America, or simply a fiscal sponsor, to receive such contributions on our behalf, in such a way that they can both a) issue tax receipts to such supporters, and b) send to the UCF in Uganda only the money that is needed at a given point in developing this plant.

If you have a 501(c)(3) or a fiscal sponsoring organization that would like to help this way, I will post your organization’s details here, once I hear from you. To help out that way, hit unhumanly@ugandafarm.org

The 5 unhumanly ways:

Help us stem the ever-resurgent grip of poverty in our region by 2030, by working with us on our intended plant in these 5 unhumanly ways:

1). Let’s develop this plant by exploring Busoga, and Uganda.

Between March 2023 & December 31, 2030, make the UCF your second home, or your getaway home in Uganda, where you can come and stay with us whenever you are free.

While at the UCF, local food & onsite accommodation will be available free, or you can choose to stay at a hotel in Kamuli town (22km away).

In turn, we only need you to bring us friends from your network, who can help us raise the needed support for our intended plant, or those who can contribute to the development of this plant in any other way.

To work with us this way, email unhumanly@ugandafarm.org

2). Let’s raise the needed money as one unhumanly team.

Make a contribution via our current fundraiser for this plant.

Most importantly, create your own “support campaign” on our behalf, by visiting the above fundraiser, and tapping “support”.

Note: only those fundraisers that are created via the “support” button on our main fundraiser above, are the ones that will be considered as raising money on our behalf. Any money raised from such fundraisers will be automatically added to our main fundraiser above.

Also, if you wish to create a fundraiser on our behalf on a totally different platform e.g. GoFundMe, please first let us know via email, and we will list your fundraiser on a page entitled “list of current support fundraisers” on this website. That page will be created soon.

Only those fundraisers under our “list of current support fundraisers” are the ones that will be considered as raising money on our behalf.

Here is the sample text you can use to create a fundraiser on our behalf.

You can also help us raise the needed support by making a wire transfer, or through employee workplace giving and corporate giving, using the information on this page.

I will be communicating weekly via twitter.com/KaluluAnthony, the total amount that we have raised across all platforms, i.e, online, wire transfer and employee workplace giving.

3). Let the world know what we are doing.

Purpose is threefold:

These 5 international volunteers, together with 5 other people from the UCF, will form our finance team that will be responsible for overseeing how the money we have raised for this plant is spent, and sharing with our supporters across the globe the progress we have made thus far.

Most importantly, these 5 international volunteers, together with people from the UCF, will be responsible for handling the legal process, to ensure that the ownership structure for this plant remains exactly as we have envisioned, i.e., 80% by local farmers, and 20% by the UCF.

The other thing these 5 vols could help with, is volunteer scheduling.

To be the lead international volunteer, who will then act as coordinator in charge of recruiting the other 4, email unhumanly@ugandafarm.org

4). Let’s lock in this work with an international Board.

To me, the grip of poverty in my region by far supersedes my own interests, or my personal love for money.

I come from a pretty screwed background, and since every other household across my region lives in abject poverty, my only goal is to contribute to a real end to the grip of poverty in our region, not to enrich myself or those around me.

The UCF is a nonprofit social enterprise, not a for-profit business.

Let’s lock in just that, by placing the work of the UCF in the hands of an international Board, to ensure that the UCF (and our intended plant, or its ownership structure) operate exactly that way, even when I am gone.

Currently, other than our field team that works with our sorghum farmers, the UCF doesn’t have a Board, and the reason is strategic.

In Africa, unfortunately, a Board doesn’t usually function the same way as in the west, where Board members often help raise support to enable the organization grow. In Africa, until your organization is financially stable (which the UCF isn’t), a Board can instead be a burden.

Rather than helping your organization grow, most Board members instead except your organization to facilitate them, and that is why the UCF has remained with no Board to date.

To nominate yourself as a prospective international Board member of the UCF and our intended plant, email unhumanly@ugandafarm.org

5). Large donations, and tax deductibility:

If you have a 501(c)(3) or a fiscal sponsoring organization that would like to help this way, I will post your organization’s details here, once I hear from you. To help out that way, hit unhumanly@ugandafarm.org