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Projects

Projects Completed

Ghana projects
Expanded  The Atanve Women's water project in The Volta Region of Ghana to a 2nd village. Now 2 villages and a school can access over 16,000 liters of water daily and it is replenish able by hydraulic pumps. Multiple outlets through the village where water can be obtained.
Completion of the school block in Atanve and school water system. Improved sanitation on campus. Students and teachers have running water accessible to them all day. Only school in the region with running water on campus.
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Donation of science equipment, books at laptops to Atanve Primary School
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Rootz Sistaz Football Team
Sponsorship of the Roots Sistaz football team –regional champions in the Eastern District Village for the women potters to use. This will allow the women to harvest more clay from the river banks and transport it more easily so they can increase their production. 
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Agamakope Women’s Pottery Projects
Donated 6 wheel barrows, 12 pick axes, 12 hoes, 20 head pans to the Agamakope 

Their goal is to use this donation to increase their production so they can earn more to buy a kiln to fire their pottery, and we will bring trainers to help them improve on their techniques and designs 
Play and Learn Foundation
In collaboration with They Often Cry Outreach (TOCO), Having Purpose and Vacationing with Purpose donated shoes to children of Play and Learn Foundation during their annual Kidmas event in 2021 and to 2 community school in the Central Region
Lesotho Projects
Facilitated and funded in 2020 the development and building of the Hands of Life youth center that services the youth of Mafeteng, Lesotho. In collaborated with Lesotho UNDP funded the Ride Lesotho campaign to educated the communities on the Sustainable Development Goals and COVID prevention message across all 10 districts

Provided Larato Primary in Mafeteng Lesotho with white boards for their classes to replace all their broken black boards
Jamaica Projects
In 2022 the projects in Jamaica will primarily focus on decreasing the digital divide in primary schools, high schools and training centers. We donated computers, iPads, laptops to schools and training centers and will continue to do so. In collaboration with Cornwall College Old Boys Association Mid Atlantic Chapter- Philadelphia, and other schools alumni associations, we distributed equipment across the nation that will impact 30,000 students in 25 schools and the Sligoville Training Center in St. Catherine.

Having P.U.R.P.O.S.E also donated to 2 community tutoring programs in St. Mary and Trelawny both programs help students who are performing under grade level - helping them to improve academically.

We now have 20 more schools asking for assistance in order to answer their pleas, we need your assistance in funding the shipping and we need equipment to donate.
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Help us find companies who are salvaging equipment that we can reuse. Or donate to us to cover shipping cost  
In 2019 we donated 50 computers to 5 schools in Clarendon

Uganda Projects
Having Purpose paid for 1 year supply of water for Ride4Woman Projects 
The women in the projects and the community have access to safe and clean drinking water. Some women walk 5-10km daily to collect water from this organization for their homes
Dream House Uganda
Having Purpose in collaboration with Vacationing with Purpose donated clothes, sports gears, laptop, iPad, and phone to Dream House Uganda children and staff
Art Project in Uganda to empower youth and the disabled so they can produce art that they can use in time as a source of income
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Sierra Leone Projects
Expand the school by building additional classrooms which will help the overcrowded classrooms that the Island of Tasso  is now experiencing. We have already added 2 temp zinc classrooms to help with the overcrowding of grade 1-2. In the future we will  add a teachers' lounge and lunchroom for the students and build out 3 permanent classrooms​
​Kenya Projects
We are also piloting the W.H.O.R.E project in East Africa in Kenya. Yes, we know you think it’s a horrible name but we wanted to rebrand the word to mean We Help Others Return to Education, We Help Others to Renounce Exploitation, and We Help Others to Restorative Economics-- where we support sex workers who want to change their lives and empower their families.  We will teach them entrepreneurial skills and bring capital investors so they can pitch their ideas. We will also provide them with a mentorship program and wrap around social service programs to enhance their success
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​Tanzania Projects
In Tanzania we are working with our local partners in Arusha to refurbish 9 classrooms at Peace Matunda Primary and to complete housing for 30 orphans who live on the compound. We will furnish the school’s library and computer room as well and bring teachers to teach STEAM classes
We will bring staff to teach young women and girls how to code and fly drones to reduce the digital divide and to improve their earning potentials so they can better support their families.

Projects

We have completed several projects, and currently have several pending projects in Ghana, Lesotho, Jamaica. The success of these projects will depend on how much we raise to complete them. We will also seek funding for education grants to pay for post-secondary education for high school grads and teachers who want to get advance degrees with a commitment that they will return to teaching after doing so.

We are working with organizations in East, West, North & South Africa to great the largest collaborative project ever seen in bringing 55 Nations together for our 'Ride Africa Campaign'-Cycling for the Sustainable Development Goals, and the Great Africa Art Banner (GAAB)-Creating the Africa you Want Campaign. These initiatives are designed to break down barriers across the nations, to increase entrepreneurship and tourism on the continent.

People are encouraged to fund the projects, to partner with us, but we are equally interested in those who want to volunteer their time to go to these countries to donate their knowledge to teach or help to build schools, clinics or create a business, etc.
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​Jamaica

NEEDS:
In Jamaica we are trying to get more computers for a primary school and High schools, Clarendon.

PROJECTS COMPLETED TO DATE:
We have donated 50 computers to several primary and high school schools. See our face book page for pictures at
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http://facebook.com/havingpurposeinc

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Lesotho

NEEDS:
In Lesotho in Southern Africa we are working on getting computers for 5 schools in the Mafeteng District and building a library for a primary school.

PROJECTS COMPLETED TO DATE:
We have already donated 5 white broads to a Lerato Primary school in Matsepe Village, replacing the broken pieces of blackboards they had been using for years.
We also want to help Lerato Primary build better sanitation system for their school.
We have provided financial assistance and mentoring to Hands of Life Cycling a community-based organization that uses cycling as the modality to educate youth in Life Skills and HIV/AIDS. See our facebook page for pictures at
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http://facebook.com/havingpurposeinc

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Ghana

NEEDS:
In Ghana, West Africa we want to continue doing water projects in the Volta and Eastern Region for several schools and extension to villages.

PROJECTS COMPLETED TO DATE:
So far, we have provided water to 2 villages and 1 school in the Atanve.
We have funded girls' football in the Eastern Region, and we want to continue to empower girls and women to participate in sports. See our face book page for pictures at

http://facebook.com/havingpurposeinc(make sure the can click from here to populate the page).

Grants:


​People can apply to us for grants to do projects as well, we will consider these proposal and follow up to determine the feasibility of the project. If accepted a project manager will be assign to monitor the project to completion and for Monitoring & Evaluation following completion.
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