Access to teachers in and out of the classroom is key to a student’s success in school, especially for those who need some extra help. To achieve this goal, URF […]

We do great work and our vision is that these projects would transform the community for generations to come. But how do you ensure that this work will be sustainable in […]

On January 07th, URF staff along with five student volunteers from the College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University had the honor of meeting with Mr. Scott H. DeLisi, the U.S. […]

VHWs are volunteers within their community around URF who act as an on-site basic health care provider, in a community that otherwise has no immediate access to health care. For […]

“We covered hygiene, nutrition, and malaria, finishing with a game of mosquito net tag in which students had to run away from the Mzungu mosquitoes into the safety of mosquito […]

“The main diseases we treated were malaria, peptic ulcer disease, syphilis, pelvic inflammatory disease, malnutrition, osteoarthritis, and back pain and body aches. For many that live in this rural region […]

Only a few short days after we arrived at URF, there was talk of a soccer game challenge between the URF staff and us (the University of Minnesota Medical students). […]

One out of every seven children in Uganda are orphans.  The epidemic is largely attributed to the ongoing HIV/AIDS crisis in Uganda. Uganda Rural Fund (URF) recently identified five child-headed […]

URF staff with Hope Academy students have started making herbal soap and jelly as a strategy to become self-reliant and reduce the dependency on donor funding. The main objective of […]

They do in Gankahga village in Uganda, the inadequate number of classrooms force many children outside to study in the scorching heat and suffer constant interruptions during the rainy season. […]