Members of All Saints Church have been making good use of their allowed exercise in January as a number of them supported a fundraising scheme for a partner charity project.

Kagando is a small village in Uganda which is home to a hospital serving the needs of the rural population around of some 350,000 people. The 250 unit has an unstable electric supply and so the charitable trust Friends of Kagando has begun fundraising the £1m needed to build a Hydro-Electric power plant to make use of a nearby mountain stream.

Lindfield resident and charity trustee Helen Tuddenham said: They experience almost daily interruptions to the electricity power supply. As trustees, we often discuss how we can best financially support the hospital in a sustainable way, allowing them to be more financially independent, and a hydroelectric power scheme would both save costs and generate income from selling surplus power to the local grid.”

Fellow church member Sarah Beeston commented: Having visited a hospital in another African country several years ago I have seen first hand the desperate need for resources. The more I heard about this Kagando project, the more I could envisage the need for the hospital to be self-sustaining and able to offer the best possible care to their community.”

Participants pledged to walk 2.5k each day in January – the equivalent of the length of pipe need to divert the water from the stream to the new power house. All Saints has set up a JustGiving page which can be found here: http://bit.ly/2KfjnGr