Organizations Filed Purposes:
To provide comprehensive, empowering, respectful and compassionate care for Uganda's vulnerable children and their families, one life at a time. Our vision is to transform children with stolen futures into tomorrow's leaders. We believe that lasting change is made by loving individuals investing deeply into the life of each child helping them to reach their potential and make an impact on their communities.
V2V provides comprehensive, empowering, respectful and compassionate care for Uganda's vulnerable children and families. The children live in family settings and are provided food, clothing, education, medical care, social & spiritual mentoring, and become a mutually supportive community.
Child Sponsorship Program: Village2Village Project encircles orphaned and vulnerable children with love, dignity, accountability and hope through a team of caring staff, the child's extended family, and like minded friends. This love is combined with the commitment of a sponsor who provides them with letters of encouragement, nutritious meals, needed medical care and an excellent education. We build relationships with children and families one at a time - seeing them as individuals with the untapped potential to change their communities. The children served are from Serere, Uganda; a northeastern district of rural villages which has the lowest achievement scores on primary standardized testing in the nation. Village2Village Project has two campuses in different subcounties in Serere, which has a population of 350,000. Our program serves more than 200 children and young adults from preschool through University level, providing social and spiritual mentoring and daily casework support in an effort to transform children with stolen futures into leaders. Village2Village Project also builds the capacity of their guardians to provide and care for them and for the other children in their care. Village2Village Project children do not live in an orphanage. The sponsor, the V2V staff and the extended families who shelter and guide the children are all partners in this care and become a community that changes lives.
Emerging Leaders Program: Students that complete secondary school at the ordinary or advanced level are able to apply for professional or university studies. Caseworkers visit, monitor and support these students, quarterly gatherings are arranged and they have an annual campout. The university students also help with the primary and secondary program during school breaks, and an effort is made to give them projects that relate to their course of study. These students are encouraged also to be involved in a charitable project that serves the wider community. One such project was the design and building of a drainable pit latrine donated to their former primary school that will serve 1,000 students for many years.
HOPE Ministry/Guardian Support Program: Village2Village Project provides essential medical care, nutritional support and counseling for seriously ill parents and grandparents of our sponsored children, and helps more than one thousand children avoid the loss of yet another beloved caregiver. V2V guardians' groups also provide business and agricultural training, group agricultural projects, child care discussions and micro-loans and savings circles that help lift entire families to a more secure level. Guardians meetings are held monthly, and guardians' groups meet autonomously as often as they wish to work on projects. Guardians also receive casework support when they are having difficulty with a child or any other family issue. Home visits are conducted with and without the sponsored child present. In emergency decisions, the staff works with the child's entire clan. For those children with special medical needs, including HIV/AIDS, specialists are accessed, medication is monitored and every effort is made for the child to live as healthy and normal a life as possible. In times of crisis, such as flood or famine, the organization provides emergency items for the entire family.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Laura Kroll | Executive Director | 50 | $69,304 |
| Nicholas Powell | Treasurer | 3 | $0 |
| Majorie Overhiser | Vice Chair | 2 | $0 |
| Nicole Marin | Board Chair | 4 | $0 |
| Annabel Henley | Board Member | 15 | $0 |
| Ruud Zijdel | Board Member | 2 | $0 |
| Catherine Caum | Board Member | 2 | $0 |
| Edwin Norse | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
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