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- 16340 Dearborn Dr Stilwell, Kansas
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- (913) 226-6958
Gotta Have
HOPE.
Creating opportunity for individuals
and impoverished communities to
develop to their full potential.
Remembering Brendan Janes
Gotta Have HOPE mourns the loss of our life-long friend and supporter, Brendan Janes. Always joyful, fun-loving, and doing good for others; Brendan made everyone he met feel loved and cared for in his personal life as well as his nursing career.
We are honored Brendan’s family has requested memorial donations be made to our Labor of Love Medical Initiative. In Brendan’s memory, we will equip an operating room at St. Luke’s Health Center, Mityana, Uganda.
Brendan shared his time and talent for over a decade to benefit the lives of those we serve in Uganda. His good works will carry on providing direly needed healthcare to the poorest of the poor.
Gotta Have HOPE is thrilled to launch a new medical initiative,
Labor of Love in Uganda’s Kiyinda-Mityana Diocese. Dedicated to our dear Dr. Michael J. Feder, this program intends to improve prenatal and obstetric care and avoid preventable complications by:
- Equipping two operating rooms at St. Luke’s Health Center to handle complicated births, C-sections, and simple traumas.
- Providing diagnostic ultrasound for the hospital as well as portable units for the 19 substation clinics.
- Establishing a health center radiology department.
- Funding scholarships in sonography and radiology.
- Supporting current clinical staff and providing resources in prenatal and maternal health.
In 2020, the NIH reported that only 65% of births in Uganda are supported by a skilled birth attendant — a contributing factor in the 435 maternal deaths per 100,000 births from unattended complications.
Currently, more than 30% of pregnant women who visit the St. Luke’s Health Center at the Kiyinda-Mityana Diocese are experiencing issues the center is unable to treat and are forced to travel long distances – over rough dirt roads on motorcycles (boda-bodas) while in labor. Often, these issues are easily treatable, and even preventable, with the right interventions.
It’s all about the mamas and their babies!
Please join the Labor of Love!
Check out the video below to hear why this program is particularly “Near & Dear” to the hearts of supporters Kate & Jon Feder!
Since 2017, you’ve been “Funding the Farms”, bringing dairy cows and so much more to hardworking farmers in rural Uganda.
Now an estimated 2000 families are participating in the Kiyinda-Mityana Cow Program and Y’Awaka.
These are life-changing, self-sustaining programs. Your support has proven to be an invaluable investment! We met so many of these families during our visit to Uganda last fall, visiting the farms your dollars have helped to build, seeing the livestock you’ve purchased, and shaking hands with the proud farmers whose futures you’re helping to transform.
This year, we’re thrilled to continue the MOOvement!
Our goal is to raise $120,000. Every $1,000 you donate will provide one dairy cow to a family who has prepared their farm & home for this transformative opportunity. And that’s a game changer.
Help Fund the Farms with a gift today!
Thank you for your support!
HOPE is the acronym for all of our activities, as well as the virtue we hold dear knowing God will help us in all things.
HEALTHCARE.
Through the donations of expertise, materials, and funding, we help improve public health, as well as access to healthcare in the communities we serve.
OPPORTUNITY.
We help design and implement self-sustaining programs for the improvement of social and economic opportunity.
POTENTIAL.
By providing assistance to help individuals form a necessary foundation, we help others maximize their own personal development and potential.
EDUCATION.
We believe education to be the key in the development of a person and a society. We support educational programs from childhood through adulthood.
current INITIATIVES
These featured programs provide educational opportunities for the students and families of St. Joan of Arc Primary School, and members of the surrounding villages in rural Uganda.
“For the Students”
Y'ABAYIZI
(ya-ba-YEE-zee)
Y’Abayizi is Gotta Have HOPE Inc.’s tuition assistance program which benefits past, present, and future students of St. Joan of Arc (SJA) Primary School in Mawuuki, Uganda. Through this program, Gotta Have HOPE provides need-based tuition assistance, allowing children from the surrounding village and beyond to attend the nationally ranked SJA Primary School. In the future, graduates of SJA may also apply for assistance with secondary school and university tuition through Y’Abayizi as they continue their educational journeys. Gotta Have HOPE is currently providing full tuition and boarding for 212 SJA students, with many more ready and waiting to join as additional funds become available.
“For the Home”
Y'AWAKA
(ya-wa-KAH)
Y’Awaka is an Adult Education and Agriculture program modeled after our KMD Cow Project designed especially for the adults in Mawuuki and other surrounding villages. This program integrates academic and agricultural education for all members of the household and progresses through topics such as reading & writing, hygiene & sanitation, cooking, current farming practices, livestock rearing, personal finance, and business & marketing based on the needs and aspirations of the family. Led by adult educators and agricultural specialists, Y’Awaka now has approximately 400 families participating from nine villages surrounding St. Joan of Arc School.
Thank YOU for your support!
ONGOING PARTNERSHIPS
Currently, Gotta Have HOPE, Inc. is proud to be actively involved with these partners in Uganda, East Africa:
St. Joan of Arc
Primary Day & Boarding School | Mawuuki, UG
The Nayune Group
Women’s Co-op handmade jewelry and crafts | Kampala, UG
Cow Project
Diocese of Kiyinda-Mityana | Lwangeri | Marembe Maria | Mubende | MaduduSsenkulu | Kiboga | Busunju | Bukalammuli
MWEA
Mawuuki Women’s Empowerment Association | Mawuuki, UG
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fund the farms
Gotta Have HOPE is raising money to “Fund the Farms”. It’s all about coMOOOnity and raising funds for livestock for our Uganda agriculture programs, including the Kiyinda-Mityana Diocese Cow Project, Y’Awaka, MWEA, and the Nayune Group.
Learn more in the videos below!
Thank you for your support!
Operation Education
Supporting Learning for Children & Adults
Your support of the 2022 Operation Education campaign is providing the opportunity for students, young and old, to make a better life for themselves and others around them.
Thanks to YOUR generosity, $110,700 was raised during OPERATION EDUCATION this summer in support of our Y’Abayizi and Y’Awaka education programs.
Thank YOU for your support!
Thank you from students at Douglass Elementary School!
OUR PARTNERS AT HOME
Douglass Elementary School in Kansas City, KS
Children’s Clothing Drive
NOVEMBER 1ST-13TH
DROP OFF SITE:
3901 W. 121st Terrace, Leawood, KS
OR
16340 Dearborn Dr, Stilwell, KS
(tubs on both porches)
Our friends at Douglass Elementary School could use our help stocking their Emergency Clothes Closet! The closet helps supply necessities for students who arrive at school without them, providing dignified support so children can focus on their education.
our programs
Currently, Gotta Have HOPE, Inc. is proud to be actively involved with these partners in Uganda, East Africa. Click the picture to learn more!
Our dynamic, 100% volunteer workforce fuels and drives our organization, neighbors helping our neighbors in need, with family-friendly fundraising activities like our annual “garage sale”, sharing their expertise, tangible donations, and financial support. It’s truly a blessing to all involved. We hope you will join us.
OUR MISSION
The mission of Gotta Have HOPE, Inc. is to provide the opportunity for impoverished communities and individuals to develop to their full potential.
We do this by improving access to Healthcare, introducing Opportunity for social and economic growth, assisting individuals in reaching their Potential, and establishing life-long opportunities of Education with Christ as our model in all endeavors.
GOTTA HAVE HOPE, INC.
16340 Dearborn Drive
Stillwell, KS 66085
(913) 226-6958
info@gottahavehope.org
Gotta Have HOPE, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Donations are tax deductible as allowed by law.
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