TRANSFORMATION OF FAMILIES

Erina Nyirahafasha was an innocent 6 year old who had just lost her mum and was staying with her step mum and two siblings. The family later grew to 6 siblings. She wasn't ready for the fierce storms that life would throw at her at a young age. However, God the Father knew her. We are grateful for the grace to walk with this family to this point when Erina is in S2 and hoping to pursue a career in Nursing. They recently received their goat from the project. We continue to support families with their small businesses and the children with home study as we are still in lock down.

SHARING IS CARING: THANKS FOR YOUR BIG HEARTS!

Here in Uganda the lock down to prevent the spread of Covid 19 still stands. We are hoping that the government may relax the restrictions slightly next week.
As the stocks of food continue to decrease in most families, FALCO was enabled by you our friends to reach out with some food relief and soap to all our supported families.THANK YOU SO MUCH!

It may take a few more weeks before peaple are fully back to work, so the need is still on. Lets continue to join hands and support our children and their families in this hard time.

We hope to do another round of distributions starting next week.

LETS DISEMPOWER THE VIRUS!

The global pandemic of COVID-19 is affecting the world and changing the way we live. Here in Uganda, 33 cases have so far been recorded as of today. We understand there are many more in Sweden, just hoping that you, our friends, remain safe.

Here, the government has ordered drastic measures to limit the spread of the virus like closure of schools and churches, suspension of all public transport including 'boda boda' motor cycles, buses etc. They are thinking of limiting movements even more.

As you may imagine, this is potentially a big crisis for most rural families who depend on daily work to get food and other necessities. Already, some of the care givers/parents of our children cant work since they don't have means of traveling to distant places to buy and sell commodities in the market.

We have decided to intervene with some relief for the families as quickly as possible before our movements are further restricted. We want to support each family with 300 Kr worth of soap, food and other essential items that can last them at least two weeks. As seen in the pics, we have already started to distribute a few items.

This is to request your contribution in this urgent move to save our families from a potential food crisis and extreme hunger. Earlier, we had thought of boosting the goat project, but this will be postponed until we have gone through this crisis.

TOGETHER WE SHALL WIN!

 

TRANSFORMATION (PART 2)

Our underlying goal in all we do with the beneficiary families is to support them with the tools they need to live empowered and dignified lives. One of the programs through which we are doing that is the GOAT DISTRIBUTION PROJECT. Domestic animals are a major source of wealth in rural areas.
Through the goat rotation project, 13 families have so far received a goat. In the picture, the Mother of Miriam Zihaawe stands with hers which has delivered twins!
 So she gets two goats and the mother will go to another family.

However, because it takes a long time for one to rotate through the families, we have started a fundraising campaign to buy a goat for each of the 19 families that haven't yet got one.
All this is part of the efforts to fight poverty which is responsible for much of the problems and limitations the children face.

Each mature goat costs 500 SEK

Please consider donating to this noble cause.

God bless!

TRANSFORMATION STORY

The story of Miriam Zihaawe for the last 10 years has been the Falco story. She is one of the very first children to be registered and supported back in 2009. At that time, we only offered sensitization meetings for parents and children plus monthly domestic support in form of soap, body jelly etc. We also assisted with some scholastic materials like books for the children whenever we could. The pictures below trace Miriams growth and transformation in this decade with us. The earliest pic is when she was 8 years, receiving gifts from our volunteer in 2009 in the presence of her mum. Miriam is now 18. At that time, she was struggling to stay in school, lacking basic school and personal necessities and having to walk home from school for an uncertain lunch every day.

However, through the sponsorship program, she was able to go to a better school, with lunch and other school requirements provided. She has now completed a hair dressing course and is working and contributing to her family's income.
Many thanks to her sponsor who has made all this possible!

POTATO GROWING

Our campaign of developing local capacity to solve local problems is taking shape!

The potato garden has been planted and the shoots are out of the ground, thanks to you our partners.

We continue to watch and give good care so that we maximise the harvest. It takes a lot to get a good harvest: fertilizers, spraying, weeding etc. Here some volunteers inspect the progress of the plants.

The journey has just begun. Lets keep working till all our families are sufficiently empowered

SKILLING THE YOUTH, CHANGING COMMUNITIES

Berina Mujawimana is yet another beneficiary of our transformational initiatives in Kisoro. She has gone through the life cycle of our support and is now ready to be graduated. Shes getting empowered to face life, take care of herself and support her family. The photos show the journey from when we met her, at 12 years. She was living with her 4 siblings and mother, having been abandoned by their Dad many years ago. Life was hard, she was struggling to stay in school and the mother was struggling to get odd jobs just to put food on the table. For the 6 years that she's been in the project, Berina has got life skills, become more confident and been supported to study and get a skill in tailoring. She's now practising with a machine owned by a relative, shown in the picture. We are still raising funds to buy her her own tailoring machine so that she may be fully self employed. A new one costs about 2000 Kr. Any contribution towards that will be highly appreciated!