How we do what we do
Notes on Income
Support for Partners in Mission USA (PIM-USA) has grown significantly over the Seventeen years we have been building the campuses in Uganda. Our Income growth has been bolstered by significant partnerships with individuals, churches, Rotary International and corporations. Bike to the Lake has provided much needed capital funding for the development of our dining hall/kitchen, STEM Center and now under construction, housing for married teachers. Student sponsorship provided primarily by individuals and families provides stable operational support by paying tuition for students that cannot afford tuition.
The most significant percentage of our income, 89% in 2019, 95% in 2021 and 93% in 2021 went directly to support Partners in Mission Uganda and the GSK and KSVS campus.
Notes on Expenses
Administrative and support costs for Bike to the Lake comprise our fundraising expense. Graciously, these costs are underwritten by corporate sponsors prior to the event each year.
US operating expense represents costs to administrate Partners in Mission USA. These costs have changed little over the past few years. In 2017 PIM-USA exceeded $300,000 in income. With that milestone we were required by the IRS to be professionally audited. The increase in 2021 was audit expenses for 2019 and 2020. In 2018, the PIM-USA board also purchased insurance coverage, including international travel, to insure that those traveling to Uganda with our coordination are properly protected. That insurance was suspended in 2021 because COVID concerns stopped all travel to Uganda. PIM-US also incurs bank costs to process payments through a third party online payment site and fees to transfer funds to PIM-Uganda.
Partners in Mission Financial Reports
“In the past 20 Years the proportion of people living in extreme poverty has almost halved”.
This quote from Hans Rosling’s book, “Factfulness” applies to Uganda today. When we started KSVS in 2007 our last thirty miles consisted of rutted dirt roads that were almost impassable during rainy months. There was no electricity to the region. Water was an all day trip to the spring to fill a Jeri can with fresh water. Today the campus has a two lane paved road that connects the Eastern and Western parts of Uganda, electricity, a deep water well and best of all students completing secondary education and going on to University or trade school. In one generation we have seen subsistence farmers become university graduates.
Partners in Mission has become a part of the changing landscape in Kamwenge. We provide primary, secondary and vocational training, preparing the children of returning refugees for a future world.