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Partner Community · Namutumba, Uganda

K'far Rishon. A small village. A big chance.

Tucked into the hills of Namutumba in eastern Uganda, K'far Rishon is a Jewish village of just 160 people. When the rains come late, harvests fail. When school fees come due, dreams pause. Your gift goes exactly to the gap a family is facing this week.

160 Members of K'far Rishon
$250 Full year of school per child
1 Partner school · African Soup Primary
100% Of gifts go to the community
The Community

A small Jewish village in rural Uganda.

K'far Rishon Namutumba sits in eastern Uganda, a few hours' drive from the Kenyan border. The community is small, around 160 people, but like their neighbors in the Abayudaya community, the rhythm of Jewish life is here: Shabbat, holidays, kashrut, the slow weekly cycle that holds a village together.

Like much of rural Uganda, K'far Rishon families live close to the land. Many are subsistence farmers. And in recent years, climate change has pushed that life harder: the rains come late, the harvests are thin, and the small margin between getting by and falling behind has narrowed.

Education is the one constant, the path families know can break the cycle. But school in Uganda isn't free.

Children from K'far Rishon village in Namutumba, Uganda
What They're Facing

The challenges your gift addresses.

An undesignated gift to K'far Rishon doesn't go to overhead or administration; instead, it goes to whichever of these challenges is most urgent the week your donation arrives.

School fees

School isn't free in Uganda. Without sponsors, kids drop out. A scholarship is the most direct intervention.

Emergency food

When the rains fail, harvests fail. Emergency food supplies bridge families through to the next planting season.

Solar panels

Solar power for homes and the community shul — reliable light for study, prayer, and the long evenings.

Chicken farm feed

The community chicken farm is a steady income source, but the feed costs money. Keeping it running keeps the community running.

Students at African Soup Primary School
The School

African Soup Primary School.

The children of K'far Rishon attend African Soup Primary, an excellent partner school in eastern Uganda. The school provides what families struggle to provide alone: structure, daily meals, qualified teachers, and a safe place to learn and play.

A full year scholarship at African Soup (covering tuition, supplies, transportation, and lunch) costs $250. For less than a dollar a day, you keep a child in school for a full academic year.

The surest way out of poverty is education. The fastest way to break it is school fees.

It sometimes takes an American village to help raise an African village. Hope for the village of K'far Rishon Namutumba rests in the future of their children. We can nurture that hope by helping these children receive a quality education at the African Soup Primary School.

— Ellen Frankel
K'far Rishon Advocate

"Small gifts to a small village land differently. There's no waste, no distance: the impact is immediate, and so is the gratitude."

— Global Village Connect