Rev Up to Empower Youth - 2024

Rev Up your impact by supporting these amazing young people!

 

2024 REV UP WELLNESS GROUP GOAL: $10,000.00

 

 **The construction of Valor Hall is underway! Your donations will help make progress on the building to allow the young adults to move in before they are turned out on the streets by the government. 

 

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Rev Up Wellness is a proud sponsor of Ugandan Orphan Childcare Ministries Empowered Generation Campus Project in Jinja, Uganda. 

 

In 2015, Rev Up coaches were made aware of a struggling orphanage in Uganda, began building a support base and started a US based nonprofit organization in order to fundraise for food and basic care for 75 orphaned children.  In 2017, Rev Up coaches, Jennifer Strickland and Wendy Clayton got to visit this orphanage.  They got to see the impact that they were able to make on what were previously dire circumstances.  Due to the tireless efforts of these two women and other dedicated volunteers, the ministry has grown.  They now provide biannual service trips and a child sponsorship program which provides for basic needs including food, medical care, housing and schooling. Additionally, the ministry employs 8 Ugandan staff members who play a crucial role in nurturing and supporting the children with care  and compassion.

 

As the children have grown, the orphanage has positively affected their surrounding community, especially during the Pandemic.  These children are being raised to be a positive force as leaders in their community and country.  

 

Unfortunately, it is Ugandan law that when an orphan reaches 18, they are not allowed to stay at the orphanage.  Currently, many of the children are close to or over the age of 18, but because of their late start in schooling, they are still attending middle school, high school and university.   The Empowered Generation Campus Project will be a home for the older children as they mature into adulthood and finish their schooling and trade schools. 

 

10% of every Rev Up Wellness program purchase will be donated to this project as well as any donations you make personally on this page.  A portion of all Rev Up apparel goes towards the Empowered Generation Campus Project and our POUNDS for a PURPOSE program.   Our goal for 2024 is to raise over $10,000. 

 

VALOR HALL - THE BOYS SIDE OF BUILDING

 

FOUNDATION - COMPLETE!

*** CURRENT FOCUS ---
FIRST FLOOR - TOTAL NEED FOR STRUCTURE - $40,944

--Columns - balance - $2266 - completed

--Walls - $9507 -- basics completed

--Slab (between 1st/2nd floor) -- $29,171 needed

 

Please help us get the first 2 floors completed on this project before the government calls for the young adults to be put out on the street! Once the first 2 floors are completed, we will be able to move some of the young adults over to the new building.

 

 

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THE EMPOWERED GENERATION CAMPUS PROJECT

(formerly the Transition Home - Guesthouse Sustainability Project Vision)

 

Our goal is to empower those in our care to be leaders in their community and country. In order to do that, we are committed to provided the best base of care, support, skills and education to empower them to be equipped to walk into those roles ready to serve and lead with confidence. Most of our children plan to give back to UOCC as they move into adulthood. Every step we can take to prepare them to be successful in life, in whatever role they choose to do as an adult, helps to ensure they are as prepared as possible. 

We already have a number of our teens and young adults attending university and trade schools. These are the ones who need a place to live and practice independence right now. The Empowered Generation Campus will include an apartment type building with sides for the boys and the girls. It will also include guestrooms at the top levels to allow the project to move into being a sustainability project in the long term. Some of our young adults are already going to hospitality and culinary schools and learning the skills required to help take care of guests on the campus in the future. 

UOCC is in legal terms an orphanage, but it doesn’t look like any other orphanage.  It’s a family, therefore we treat every child as part of a big family.  Instead of pushing them out when they’re 18, as required by law, we will provide them with another home, a transition home.  Here they can begin learning to live more independently with adult responsibilities as they attend university or trade school, begin working in their field and once they earn enough money to provide for themselves, send them off to live productive lives. 

The Building will have 2 sides --- the boys side will be called: Valor Hall and the girls will be: Ruby Hall

The Empowered Generation Campus Project required that we complete the purchase of a plot of land, settle land surveys and titles, and fence in the property. We are now in the stage of beginning construction of the building that will serve as apartments/dormitories for the young adults and rooms for guests.  The young adults will both work in the guest house to earn their keep and earn some income under the direction and supervision of Daniel Kanu, director of UOCC. 

 

As part of the vision for the Empowered Generation Campus we will challenge the young adults to design an edible landscape. This will provide a beautiful, peaceful place to walk in as well a source of food. An edible landscape is a cross between landscaping and farming and allows small spaces to be used to grow food.

When our service team travels to Uganda, we would be able to stay in these guest rooms once they are completed. Other guests would be missionaries and foreign service providers.

The government is putting pressure on us to move all the young adults, 18 and older, over to the Empowered Generation Campus to comply with government regulations stating that they must be off the UOCC property where the younger children live. So this project is one of our top priorities because the other option is to be forced to put the young adults out on the streets and that would be awful! Please help us to keep that from happening to these wonderful young people. Currently there are over 20 teens and young adults who fit this category.

 

 

Overall Project Goal:

Estimated at $300,000

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