We are always proud of each one of you that follows this site to keep in touch with our programs. For those who may have been wondering how to donate to the campaign for the Kitchen, this is the link to our Givingway page where you can find details, donate or even become a monthly partner of the organisation.https://www.givingway.com/campaign/7fdc9ec
Thanks for bringing hope and a smile to these disadvantaged children and their families.
As we continue to work towards improving the lives of our children and their households, we have identified a critical need that we thought to share with you as our treasured partners and friends in this struggle.
It’s about the state of the kitchen of the family of MIRIAM CYIMPAYE, one of our supported children. As seen in the pictures, its incomplete and in a poor state. When it rains (its rainy season now until January) they can’t use it and have to cook from inside the main house. This puts the house at risk of a fire outbreak.
Miriam lives with her grandparents who are too weak to work well and bring in sufficient income to ensure a good standard of living. We are now reaching friends for contributions so that we construct a new kitchen and store for this family.
The budget for the new structure is 14,000 SEK.(Or approx 1,400 USD)
Any contribution to this noble cause will be highly appreciated!
Greetings
We thank God for you our dear partners. Many regards from all of us here. Our Children are doing well, though still undergoing home study due to the suspension of schools. In this time, we are having several activities to keep them engaged and support their families.
The lockdown negatively affected work for many peaple; businesses are still struggling to get back to normal operations. For this reason, we started distribution of food and other relief items. This will be an ongoing program as funds allow, we are therefore requesting well wishers to donate to this relief effort so that our children don't drop out of school due to intense difficulty at home.
We are also supporting a few older ones to do small scale business in the market, selling simple items like sugar canes, avocado etc. It helps their mind to stay constructively engaged and many children here are doing it to get little money to keep them going.
We also resumed our regular workshops with our teenage girls. It was necessary to have these interactions with them to keep them focused and get updated on whatever challenges they may be facing.
Finally, on a lighter note...
Today, 5th September, is the birthday of Nathan Kaija!!!
Greetings dear friends and sponsors
We continue to thank God for the love and compassion that you have for the children and families of our community.
Nothing significant would have been achieved without your partnership.
Poor and vulnerable children are getting an education and skills that they would never had attained without your helping hand. Families are getting supported both from a psycho social and economic angle.
We would like to report that there has recently been a fresh surge of Corona Virus cases as Uganda goes through a second wave of the disease. This second wave is proving more fatal as cases are more widespread and more deaths are being recorded.
Due to that, the Government has again closed schools for a period of 42 days and instituted lock down on most activities and businesses. Some markets here in Kisoro have been closed, yet they were a source of livelihood for many peasant women and men.
During this difficult time, we are keeping in touch with the children and families to offer psycho social support and monitor the lives of our beneficiaries. This is done in a limited way to avoid exposure to the disease. In about two weeks we shall resume the home study program where children will be given work and academic materials to read from home.
Just like it was in the first lockdown last year, families are already struggling to get along since most economic activities are either closed or moving slowly.
For that reason we would like to offer some food relief again like we did last year. The plan is to offer a food pack that costs about 200 SEK to each family. We will then need 6,800 SEK to offer this relief to all the registered families.
Your support to this cause will be highly appreciated.
PS: In the pics, we show the distribution of last year and some of the children helping out with domestic activities.
