CENTRE DAY STORIES

Centre day is the day that we meet with the children for various activities as we monitor their overall development. Last weekend we held a centre day and we bring you the stories and images from our fun filled moments.
As some of you know, we recently registered new children as we seek to increase our outreach and impact in the community. This was the first time that the new children were interacting with the older ones in the project and it was such fun and interesting. The joy of making new friends could be seen all over their faces.

In these centre days we have interactive learning and counselling sessions, have fun and play activities and share a snack especially when we keep the children for two hours or more.
These days give us opportunity to get updated about the welfare of the children and their families, we get an opportunity to know any issues in their lives that need our attention and we intervene.

Our target is to have 50 sponsored children by the end of this year. Right now, only 21 are sponsored. Please let us know if you or a friend can take up a child for sponsorship. It takes 30 Usd per month to be a sponsor. That support helps us to provide fees, uniform and school lunch to your sponsored child. It also includes a medical contribution to the child in case of sickness plus facilitating activities like the ones below for the physical, social, cognitive and spiritual development of the child. You may contact us at falccokisoro@hotmail.com for more details.

And now the games.....

LEARNING TIME

This is now study time. We had one of our new volunteers, Aphia Nyiramuco, a lady who loves children and works with an NGO that promotes nature conservation in schools targeting communities that live around the national parks of Kisoro.

Among the activities we had was the study and interactive session pictured below.
We discussed with the children about their career aspirations, gave them counsel about the upcoming holiday and how to utilise it well, and the newly registered children got to introduce themselves and get assimilated into the group.
Though most of the new children have not yet got sponsors, we shall be involving them in these joint centre days of interaction, fun and learning.

These days, we are holding our centre days in the community, at a home that has always been glad to host us. Previously we used to have all the children come to town; we found that taxing especially for the youngest ones in the group. So we shall be interchanging between town and the villages.

It is among our strategic plans to get a central place for our office which has enough space for the childrens' activities also.
Pray with us in that line.

TIS LUNCH TIME

After the various activities, the children were certainly hungry and so it was time to share a snack as FALCCO family. It was a moment when the new children got to know the older ones in the project.

A BETTER AND SAFER HOUSE FOR THIS OLD COUPLE AND THEIR GRANDCHILD MIRIAM

Construction has begun of a new house for one of the FALCCO supported families. Like we had explained earlier, one of our children, MIRIAM CYIMPAYE, lives with her grandparents (pictured below) in a very old and dilapidated house and FALCCO is partnering with the family to have them build a new one. The cost for the complete house is 2,500Usd. Falcco has received a contribution of 490Usd from some of our sponsors and with that the family is working hard on the foundation of the new house.

We greatly appreciate the commitment of our sponsors to improve the lives of these families and give hope to the disadvantaged children of Uganda.

We had a chat with the family (see picture below) and they told us the progress. They are doing their best to mobilise resources from friends and relatives. We will appreciate more support for the family so that the work that has started doesn't stop.