Education-related Projects- $450 – pays for clothing and supplies to send 15 orphans to school to school for one year.
- $600 – pays for 100 school uniforms & pairs of shoes
- $750 – pays one year’s tuition, supplies, transport and living expenses to educate a Lotumbe teacher.
- $3250 – pays for five teachers.
- $3000 – pays for uniforms, shoes, tuition and supplies for 100 Pygmy children to go to school for one year ($30/child/year).
- $4000 – replaces the roof on the school and furnishes 8 classrooms with new benches and new chalkboards.
- $4200 – refurbishes, furnishes, and operates a pre-school for one year that will nourish, educate, and protect 100 young children (under age 5) while their mothers work at the hard labor required to sustain life in rural Congo (gathering firewood, hauling water, tending fields, cooking, etc.). In addition to rehabilitation of the building, includes tuition, meals, and salaries for four teachers ($20/month) in three classrooms.
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Health-related Projects- $1000 – buys 200 mosquito nets
- $5000 – buys first aid supplies and basic medicine kits for each of the 18 surrounding health zones served by Lotumbe’s hospital and its two doctors.
- $6000 - buys 20 beds, 20 mattresses and 20 bedpans. (Imagine being sick in hospital and having to go outside, to a latrine, to relieve yourself.)
- $13,250 - buys obstetrical supplies: including C-section tray, delivery tray instruments, 3 sets of delivery forceps, 3 fetoscopes, 3 speculums, 3 baby scales; 100 newborn outfits (supplied by sewing school); 200 cloth diapers & baby bottles; 50 boxes of sutures; 50 boxes of 50 pairs of surgical gloves; 100 boxes of 100 exam gloves; 50 packs of medical-surgical supplies including dressings, syringes, needles, tape, disinfectant, etc.
- $29,300 - outfits the general surgery: 2 major surgery trays (instruments); 2 minor surgery trays (instruments); 2 orthopedic surgery trays; 200 boxes of sutures; 200 boxes (50 pairs each) of surgical gloves; 100 boxes (100 pairs) of exam gloves; 200 boxes of 50 surgical masks; 200 packs of surgical supplies including scrub brushes, dressings, syringes, needles, tape, disinfectant, etc.
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Income-generating Projects
- $7500 – rehabilitates a community-owned building and furnishes it as a guesthouse for paying visitors. This project was proposed by FLO, Fondation Lucie Otaenga. Given Lotumbe's position as a regional Rural Health Zone center, HandUp Congo founders inspected the building, discussed the business plan, and determined that a guest house is a viable income-generating proposal.
- $30,000 – purchases & transports to the village a portable sawmill, parts, a generator & start-up fuel. Operated by local men who would volunteer their time for community projects, the sawmill would reduce costs in rehabilitating school & community structures (including the hospital) and, like the original gift of the sewing machines, would generate income for the community thereafter.
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