The J10:10 Charity was founded by Jonathan Bennion-Pedley to deliver vital education and healthcare to children in Uganda. Self-funded by Jon Bennion-Pedley for most of its life, J10:10 has been responsible for building both a hospital and a school, which it continues to operate.
The J10:10 charity works
on numerous projects aimed at improving quality of life for people living in
rural Africa, which include providing clean water and sanitation, healthcare, compassion
and education.
The charity has a particular focus on empowering women
through the provision of education for girls in aeras where this may otherwise
be inaccessible. The infographic attachment looks at the statistics for female
education in sub-Saharan Africa and the importance of educating girls.
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Clean Water
In a time when most of the western world takes having access
to clean, safe and convenient drinking water for granted, there are still over
a billion people on the planet whop cannot say the same. For some, gaining
access to clean water requires backbreaking journeys every single day, trekking
through an inhospitable landscape to reach the nearest source.
For women and girls this journey can be even more perilous,
as they run the very real risk of being attacked, assaulted or raped while
being sent to fetch water. However, the only alternative to making this unsafe
trip is to collect rainwater from puddles and pools which can be affected by
animal faeces, which often results in people drinking contaminated water and
becoming ill.
Many people in rural Africa die from drinking contaminated
water. In fact, more children die from diarrhoea caused by drinking unsafe
water than from AIDS and malaria combined. This is why it is essential for the
health and progress of people in deprived areas of Africa to be given access to
safe drinking water from sources that are close to home. J10:10 works to
introduce rainwater harvesting tanks, water purification systems, fog
harvesting and other technologies to ensure everyone has access to the basic
human right that is clean drinking water.
More information on the practice of fog harvesting can be
seen in the short video attachment to this post.
Sustainability: Introducing Fog Harvesting
Gender Equality
In Uganda, as in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, women
have a lower social status than men, This is despite the fact that they
typically work equally as hard as men, alongside maintaining the domestic side
of life and taking sole responsibility for childcare, cooking, cleaning and
other chores.
While changing the attitudes of adults is a long and arduous
process, often with limited results, changing the beliefs of children has the
potential to result in future generations that are more equal. The J10:10
charity operates a nursery and boarding house in which children are taught the
values of equality and shown daily that, while there may be differences, we all
have something to offer. By instilling values of equality at an early age, it
is hoped that societies will begin to evolve as these children attain adulthood
and in turn have more influence on their communities.
The PDF attachment looks at ways in which improving gender
inequality can boost outcomes in terms of eradicating poverty.
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Medical Care
J10:10 has built a medical centre close to Kigazi Village in
Uganda, which provides medical care to villagers in the surrounding region.
This includes an out-patient department, maternity care, immunisation
programmes, medicines, and other healthcare services. The six staff, housed in
accommodation also provided by J10:10, are able to treat more than 500 patients
a month and provide a safe environment for childbirth.
