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• The Donum Endowment

  The Donum Endowment needs $221,639,325 to keep every planned place, and the team that runs them, running.

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Nakivale

• Uganda

  Planned project

  Donum Partner Platform: a free tool for refugee-led organisations

  Opens December 2027 (planned)

  Refugee-led organisations know who is one step away from something, but most have no safe way to record a need, prove a gift arrived and follow up. Without that, many donors do not fund them.

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• Uganda

  Planned project

  The Donum Nakivale campus: land, roads and security

  Works finish June 2028 (planned)

  Every place we plan for Nakivale needs land, roads, drains, a fence and security, close to enough people to justify it: at least 20,000 within 5 km. Land inside the settlement cannot be owned, so we look first for titled land next to it, in the host community.

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• Uganda

  Planned project

  Donum Nakivale Power and Water: solar power for the campus and the trading centre

  Opens July 2028 (planned)

  In Nakivale, 2.6% of households use the national grid for light (npj Climate Action, 2025). A health centre, a school and workshops cannot run without reliable power, and the trees for firewood are gone.

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• Uganda

  Planned project

  Donum Nakivale Health Centre: births, newborns and oxygen

  Opens October 2028 (planned)

  By January 2026 only 6% of the money needed for refugee health and nutrition in Uganda that year had been secured (International Rescue Committee, 26 January 2026). Births, newborn care and oxygen are where care saves the most lives.

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• Uganda

  Planned project

  Donum Nakivale Training Farm and Workshops: 1,000 graduates a year

  Opens January 2029 (planned)

  Refugees in Uganda may work and are given land to farm, but many have no way to learn a trade they could live from, and the training near Nakivale does not meet the need. Most of what is offered also needs English.

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• Uganda

  Planned project

  Donum Nakivale Technical Secondary School: 960 places

  Opens February 2029 (planned)

  Only 11% to 12.1% of refugee young people in Uganda are in secondary school (Finn Church Aid Uganda, 26 March 2026). Children finish primary at about 13, too young to work, and distance, fees, hunger and safety end most of their schooling there.

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Donum Centre

• Uganda

  Planned project

  Donum Centre: 1,000 free computers near Makerere University

  Opens October 2030 (planned)

  In 2021, 2.7% of households in Uganda had a computer (World Bank, 2021). In a survey of Makerere students, 93% named the cost of internet as a barrier to learning online, 84% poor connections and 56% electricity (Olum and others, 2020).

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Students

• Uganda

  Planned project

  Donum Student Laptop Draw: a new laptop for a university student, every month

  Opens February 2027 (planned)

  In 2022, 2.5% of households in Uganda owned a working laptop and 94% had no internet at home (NITA-U, 2022). A new laptop costs about eight months of what an average household spends (UBOS, 2023/24).

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  Donum Foundation may stop the Student Laptop Draw at any time, without giving a reason. A ticket is a place in the draw, not a promise of a laptop: if the draw stops, nobody can claim a laptop or money from Donum because of it. Before the draw closes, every laptop someone has already paid for is drawn and handed over.

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