Current Projects

Here is Life has many current community development projects:

1. Evangelical School of Technology in Aringa (ESTA) has graduated over 70 students since it began in 2000. These students have gone on to plant churches, start small businesses, and contribute to the community. There are currently 63 students. ESTA promotes:
   
1. Spiritual Development through
   
1. Leadership development
2. Biblical training
3. Evangelistic outreach
2. Skills Development through
1. Agriculture
2. Construction
3. Carpentry
4. Tailoring
5. Welding
6. Computer training
7. Accounting
   
2. Voice of Life FM 100.9 radio station broadcasts Christian, health and educational programming 18 hours daily throughout the West Nile region.
3. Kei Health Center is a Grade Three Health Unit with 20 inpatient beds. The center provides:
1. Primary health care
2. Health education
3. HIV/AIDS testing, treatment and education
   
4. Language and Literacy Services assist in:
1. Developing the local orthography
2. Training teachers to teach the local dialect in the primary schools
3. Translating the Bible into the local dialect, and confirming accuracy with local residents
   
4. Providing access to books in English for local residents
5. Developing books in the local dialect for primary education
5. Social Welfare Services assist communities to start income-generating projects and help in relief during disaster.
6. HIV/AIDS Prevention program. With funding from USAID, Here is Life is implementing HIV/AIDS prevention interventions in the 42 parishes of Aringa county in Yumbe District. Thirty religious leaders (both Christian and Muslim) work together to address behaviors of transmission in their local congregations. In addition, 50 volunteers collaborate to mobilize 30 people in each parish (over 1200 involved total) to:
1. Discuss risky behaviors that lead to HIV/AIDS in that particular parish
2. Identify methods to deter such risky behaviors.
7. Research. Here is Life has received a two-year grant to research ways of developing stronger, healthier chickens in local communities to increase income for poultry farmers. This research will be carried out through ESTA.