“Wash your hands!” How often have you heard that in the past few months?

Probably too many times to count. For many of us, a simple reminder is all we need. But for people in remote parts of Uganda, hand washing requires infrastructure that is not common in the average household. The Ugandan Ministry of Health reported that almost 60% of Ugandans do not wash their hands with soap -- ultimately this leads to the quick transmission of diseases like dysentery, cholera and diarrhea. With your support, in 2019, we were able to teach over 100,000 people in Uganda about the benefits of washing their hands and supported the construction of at least one tippy-tap hand washing station in every home, school and clinic, we trained. We also built 4,062 efficient, energy saving cooking stoves. These burn much less wood, save trees, and vent smoke outside the kitchen hut, greatly reducing lung disease for women.