{"id":5726,"date":"2016-07-31T18:23:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T18:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arab.org\/directory\/5726\/?post_type=wpbdp_listing&#038;p=5726"},"modified":"2016-07-31T18:44:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T18:44:25","slug":"hope-ofiriha","status":"publish","type":"wpbdp_listing","link":"https:\/\/arab.org\/directory\/hope-ofiriha\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope Ofiriha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We empower women and children living in rural communities to overcome social injustice, disease, illiteracy, and poverty. Our small-scale interventions enhance their social and economic well being and help them reach their potential.<\/p>\n<p>Hope Ofiriha\u00a0is a partnership between European, African, Australian, and North American volunteers who work together to transform the lives of\u00a0women and children\u00a0in\u00a0Magwi County in\u00a0South Sudan\u2014one of the most poor, remote, and neglected places in the world. We also assist South Sudanese refugee women and children stranded in Uganda and occasionally North Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>We are registered as a nongovernmental organization (NGO) in Norway (no.\u00a0980 084 140) and with the\u00a0Government of South Sudan.\u00a0Hope Ofiriha\u2019s main office is in\u00a0Torit, a\u00a0town\u00a0southeast of Magwi County that is\u00a0the capital of Eastern Equatoria State. We also have a coordinating office in Oslo, Norway.<\/p>\n<p>Through our partnerships with ChooseAneed.org, GlobalGiving,\u00a0and the Omprakash Foundation, donations to Hope Ofiriha have 501(c)3 tax-exempt status in the United States. Through our partnership with\u00a0GlobalGiving UK, they are also tax deductible in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>The small-scale grassroots projects we sponsor help women and children overcome social injustice, disease, illiteracy, and poverty.\u00a0They are designed to give\u00a0<strong>a hand up\u2014not a hand out\u2014<\/strong>and generally fall into\u00a0six categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Healthcare. Hope Ofiriha\u2019s healthcare\u00a0projects focus on\u00a0reducing\u00a0child mortality rates,\u00a0preserving mothers\u2019 lives, and preventing and combating HIV infection. We run a health clinic and a maternity clinic in two remote villages.<\/li>\n<li>Education. We invest more in education than any other type of project because we strongly believe literacy\u00a0is the ticket out of poverty. We fund the construction of school buildings and work to ensure children, especially girls and war orphans, stay in school.<\/li>\n<li>Agriculture. Our agricultural projects are aimed at diversifying crops, increasing food supplies,\u00a0and improving farming\u00a0and rural business practices.\u00a0They mostly target\u00a0rural women farmers who are heads of their households.<\/li>\n<li>Child Sponsorship.\u00a0We\u00a0find sponsors for the children of South Sudanese refugees living in slums in the outskirts of Kampala, Uganda. Many of these children are war orphans.\u00a0Child\u00a0sponsorship\u00a0not only pays\u00a0the fees necessary for these children\u00a0to attend school, it ensures they are fed, clothed, and receive regular medical care.<\/li>\n<li>Microcredit. Our microcredit projects give small loans to women to help them start their own businesses.<\/li>\n<li>Environment. Our\u00a0environmental projects combat\u00a0deforestation,\u00a0improve environmental\u00a0health, and promote environmental awareness and conservation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We empower women and children living in rural communities to overcome social injustice, disease, illiteracy, and poverty. Our small-scale interventions enhance their social and economic well being and help them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"wpbdp_category":[374,379,360,315,316,317,320,314,321,387,319,355,357,381],"wpbdp_tag":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arab.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wpbdp_listing\/5726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arab.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wpbdp_listing"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arab.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wpbdp_listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arab.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arab.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arab.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arab.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wpbdp_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arab.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wpbdp_category?post=5726"},{"taxonomy":"wpbdp_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arab.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wpbdp_tag?post=5726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}