2024-10-11T09:27:58-07:00 2023-12-31 990EZ 2023-01-01 372049039 RAISE UP THE ROOF FOUNDATION INC RAIS 8579997257 138 Cambridge Road Woburn MA 01801 Edmund Ugwoegbu President 8579997257 2024-10-14 1 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z X www.RaiseUpTheRoof.org X X 164832 X 164830 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2828 -2828 0 0 0 0 162004 166616 0 0 3700 0 0 3913 174229 -12225 65083 0 52858 X 45583 42226 0 10832 19500 0 65083 53058 0 200 65083 52858 To promote social justice and advocacy for people with disabilities based on the social teaching of the Catholic Church. Activities include education, social outreach, economic development, health care, and evangelization. Also, to conduct other such activities in furthering of the foregoing purpose. Objective: Provide social and humanitarian outreach to underprivileged for housing, food, clothing, living necessities, counseling, and including Christmas outreach. Provided and Benefitted: Housing and related necessity costs for economically and physically disadvantaged (estimated 524 persons benefitted). Economic outreach to the less privileged for food and basic necessities (approximately 681 benefitted). Food supplies for the poor in the hinterland (approximately 312 benefitted) and Christmas and Easter disadvantaged children's outreach (approximately 520 benefitted). 0 47153 Objective: Provide educational infrastructure support for economically disadvantaged students; particularly those students from the hinterland and villages. Provided: laptop computers for ICT lab (approximately 600 benefitted); provide various school supplies books, writing boards, seats, tables, desks, school furniture, and related installation and transportation. Benefitted: High schools, primary schools and tertiary school educational programs (approximately 988 economically and physically disadvantaged students benefitted). 0 30294 Objective: Provide basic skills training costs, and necessary related equipment to economically and physically underprivileged individuals. Provided and Benefitted: Basic training costs for fashion design and buy sewing machines (10 benefitted), general business and related skills training costs (5 individuals benefitted) train economically disadvantaged individuals to operate tri-cycle vehicles and acquire vehicles with registration (5 persons benefitted); and train one physically disadvantaged individual to operate a motorcycle and acquire the motorcycle with registration. 0 23632 Objective: Provide educational tuition, school fees, and scholarships to underprivileged individuals. Provided full scholarships to two disabled individuals to attend a special school for the disabled. Provided educational scholarships for intellectually deserving, economically underprivileged students (7 students) in primary school, junior high school, and high school and two in the seminary. Provided basic tuition and school fees for special WAEC program for 6 students. Provided basic tuition and school fees for 99 economically underprivileged students in primary, tertiary, and secondary schools and 1 student in junior seminary. 0 21389 Objective: Provide a reliable new drinking source of water for a multitude of residents. A deep well was dug, and all related infrastructure was built, a generator was acquired, and a new multi-faucet water supply station was constructed with adjacent water tower supply for a village. This project is estimated to benefit approximately 3,500 individuals. 15580 20468 Objective: Provide general medical aid and supplies to economically challenged areas and provide support payments and, or full hospital payments for economically or physically disadvantaged individuals or indigent patients. Provided general medical aid personnel and supplies to approximately 950 individuals; provided support payments and, or full hospital payments for seventeen economically underprivileged patients; provided financial support for an eye surgery and for a leg surgery; provide medical insurance assistance to one economically underprivileged individual. 0 19119 Objective: Financially support religious clergy who are expected to provide assistance to the charitable foundation. Medical subsidies were provided to two priests; educational assistance was provided to one priest; and general economic assistance was offered to another priest. 0 4561 166616 Father Edmund Ugwoegbu President 10 0 0 0 Thomas Pasakarnis Treasurer 10 0 0 0 Father Modestus Onwumelu Clerk 1 0 0 0 X 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MA Thomas Pasakarnis 138 Cambridge Road Woburn MA 01801 7814915981 0 1 NI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 0 0 0 227200 164830 392030 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 227200 164830 392030 0 0 0 40000 40100 80100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 40000 40100 80100 311930 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 227200 164832 392032 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Other Expenses include airfare for $2,098; Bank Fees and Service Charges of $456; Nominal fees for promoters of the charity of $600; website costs of $357; Government filing fees of $189; and miscellaneous/office supplies of $213. Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26 Liabilities of $200 is exclusively for accounts payable. Form 990-EZ, Part V, Line 33 New program service activities, which are detailed in part III schedule O, were: 1. providing financial assistance for a water supply station and 2. provided financial assistance for a handful of economically challenged clergy. No other new activities were engaged in nor were any other previously reported activities discontinued.