A Cabinet Hardware Business in America Teams Up With a School in Uganda to Build a Desperately Needed Well
Lira, Uganda (PRWEB) March 31, 2014 -- The Keframa school in Lira, Uganda was created to provide free education to children in need in Uganda, many of them orphaned as a result of war and HIV. The school has no water or electricity, requiring the students to walk approximately a kilometer to the nearest well several times a day to provide water for the school. The well they use is also utilized by the local community of 800, making it difficult to gain access to the water and making the pump vulnerable to breaking. Currently, the school maintains the cost of fixing the well, at a cost equivalent to 20 scholarships for new students.
In order to raise sufficient funds to build a new well close to the school, Augustine Kezzy Okello, the Executive Director of Keframa, approached Dave Mason, CEO of the FlowOver Project about launching a crowdfunding campaign. Mason's website, CabinetHardware.org, allows purchasers to designate 10% of their purchase cost to the approved cost of their choice.
"Most of what we sell is kitchen and bathroom hardware, both of which are integrally connected to water usage," says Mason, "so we think it appropriate that a portion of our revenue go to providing water to a community in need."
Keframa's goal is to make its students into change makers, a task that is difficult to achieve when the students spend so much of their days walking back and forth between the school and the well.
To learn more about Keframa and vote for this project, visit the Dig a Well in Uganda page at CabinetHardware.org.
About CabinetHardware.org:
http://www.CabinetHardware.org is a combination e-commerce site and crowdfunding platform founded in 2013 by entrepreneur David Mason. Ten percent of every dollar spent on the site is donated to relief efforts to help needy families rebuild their homes and others in crisis. Any representative of a charitable cause can apply for one of the company’s relief grants through its charitable arm, the FlowOver project.
CabinetHardware.org visitors and customers vote for those grant applications they would like to see funded. No donation is necessary to vote or to purchase products. Customers who do earmark a portion of their purchase price to a cause absorb no cost for the their donation. CabinetHardware.org transfers 10 percent of each sale to deserving causes.
CabinetHardware.org is turning the traditional business model on its head by merging the crowdfunding concept with the company’s successful e-commerce network by incorporating opportunities for customers to contribute to charitable causes without paying an extra surcharge to do so.
Each project featured on the CabinetHardware.org website begins with charity operators or individuals in need submitting a grant application to the company through its charitable arm, FlowOver. If the grant application is chosen, the public has an opportunity to vote on whether or not it will be featured on the CabinetHardware.org website. A project must receive 100 or more votes to qualify for assistance.
David Mason, FlowOver, Inc., http://www.cabinethardware.org, +1 (860) 263-9193, [email protected]
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