WUW has already contributed to projects in this town in Uganda which is the second largest town in the country after Kampala with 116,000 inhabitants.
In 2019 WUW supported the local primary school in Masaka to replace a rain water harvesting tank and to build a protective wall for this tank against land subsidence in the local area. Its also charity match-funded the drilling of a water borehole in the
outskirts of Masaka in 2021.
The charity is now proposing to send a grant of Euro 5,000 to Uganda charity called Believe Achieve; run by a local man in his late twenties called Mustipha. Mustipha is an orphan himself and has acquired land and built two/three houses on the outskirts of Masaka to provide accommodation for boys previously living on the streets aged 14 years and above.
Mustipha also rent accommodation elsewhere to house vulnerable people with disabilities who would otherwise struggle to find a place to stay. He generally helps people when he can and has links to some local funding but this is not extensive. He has no other connections with charities in other countries at the moment apart from Donnez de l'espoir â l'Ouganda (DEO), a very small charity run by a UK Couple based in France and WUW (Wood U Waste) .
A first-aid course organized by DEO was run at Mustapha’s site and a student nurse funded by DEO was housed there when she was unwell and unable to live in her college.
In order to fund his charity mustipha runs a taxi business and keeps goats to provide milk and meat. (does he sell milk and meat from his goats or use all himself?)
Bought more goats with funding sent out by local people in France and has managed to build a secure pen for them. The street boys living on the site help to look after the goats and also wash cars to bring in supplementary income.
At the moment mustipha spend about 30% of his total monthly income on electricity, water and waste disposal costs. This is a high proportion. He speaks of times when he has had to decide on either a water or electricity supply because he has not had money for both. He has plan to build a two-storey orphanage on the remaining part of the land he owns (a plot approximately 18mX35m) and when this is built, the cost of water, electricity and waste disposal will be likely to be likely to be an even higher proportion of his income than they are now.
Waste disposal services in Uganda are expensive and not a service provided by the town to all its inhabitants. Mustipha pays $15 per month for a weekly collection. This is likely to increase as more children live on the site.