Reynold Mainse our Co-founder and President is turning “60”.
Reynold is asking friends, partners of World Embrace, and family to help him gift to World Embrace a very practical item – A Rock Crusher…
Over the next several years of building Gulu Community Park for the children and youth of Gulu, we will need a lot of gravel. World Embrace having its own Rock Crusher will save 70% on gravel. It’s will be a gift that keeps on giving!
HELP US CRUSH A POVERTY CYCLE!
If you visit a rock quarry in Uganda, you will find women and children crushing large rocks into gravel. Hand crushed gravel is popular in Uganda, but it creates and traps families into a cycle of poverty. Workers are paid based on the amount of rock they produce and can earn a wage of between $0.82 - $1.36 for a full day's work, which only affords hand-to-mouth subsistence living.
Mothers struggle to meet the physical needs of their families and to pay the school fees for their children. Often the children end up crushing rock alongside their mothers to help provide for the family. It is dangerous work, with many eye and hand injuries occurring due to a lack of proper safety equipment. Silicosis is a common long-term effect of consistently inhaling stone dust.
The mobile rock crusher can produce in one hour what a mother can produce in roughly 18 working days.
THE PLAN
At Gulu Community Park we will crush rock to meet our construction needs. At the same time, World Embrace will transport the Rock Crusher to local quarries to give ladies access to the rock crusher.
We will form cooperatives to give women the opportunity to use the Rock Crusher to increase their income, free their time to care for their children, and keep their children in school.
We believe not only in making an impact WITH our projects but also in HOW we do our projects. We invite you to partner with us as we work to love and serve the community of Gulu, Uganda!