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Two villagers want to buy interlocking bricks from the orphanage in Uganda. The cost to fund this was ~$445. We will be paying the four volunteers who are making these bricks. They were not expecting this. After materials and labor, the net proceeds for the orphanage will be $1,459. That is a 3x return on investment! …

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We have partnered with CARS to be able to accept your unwanted car, truck, boat, motorcycle, SUV or even plane as donations! Vehicle Donations are a unique and impactful giving option that helps to fund Lightforce One’s work uplifting and empowering the underprivileged and the marginalized of the world. Your generosity qualifies for a tax …

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Previous Next This is Shakira, the girl our founder, Dave Bauer, gave a scholarship to via Lightforce One. She is is in grade 3 (of 6) in senior school. After that, she goes to university to study law. Included in these pics is why she wants to study law and part of why he selected …

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This is Matilda. She is the wife of the director of the orphanage in Uganda that Lightforce One works with.

We just paid $650 for year 2 of 3 of her university costs. She is studying for a bachelor’s degree in Adult and Community Education so that they can start a trade school for the villagers when she graduates. Her work will positively affect many lives! …

Earlier this year we upgraded the walls on the chicken coup we built in Uganda from wood slats to bricks made with the new brick machine we purchased.

Last month, we upgraded the roof from a thatch roof that continually needed to be replaced to a metal roof that will for many years…

Lightforce One is raising $300,000 for ambitious projects planned throughout the end of 2022 and all of 2023. Our efforts will be focused on continuing our work in Africa and beginning work on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, located in South Dakota…

For our first construction project with the bricks made with the new interlocking brick-making machine, we upgraded the walls on the temporary chicken coup. You can see from the images how much better the brick walls look, and you can even see how they interlock….

We planned on having 5 or 6 people in the training, but nearly 100 showed up! These villagers are always so enthusiastic about progress and developments.

Two of the young men learning to make bricks here will later be set up with their own brick masonry business…

I’ve wanted to get this machine to this orphanage in Uganda for almost 2 years. It makes higher quality bricks, requiring less mortar, no burning of wood, no deforestation, the bricks are made faster and they are stronger. I was determined to get this game-changing brick-making machine to them…