Holiday starts

We are in the holiday now. The children are glad to get time to be with family and rest from the hectic school routine. We started them off with a group counselling about the term and how it went for them. We met a small group and will be meeting more in the course of the holiday. It was interesting to hear their stories of best subjects, favorite teachers and challenges faced during the term. We are using the findings to find ways of enriching their educational experience.

Transforming families

We are glad to bring you an update of one of our supported families. The child is Jackyline Gato. We mentioned sometime back that we spotted her when she had dropped out of school and had lost hope of ever getting an education or worse still, ever achieving anything worthwhile in life. That was way back in 2010. Well, the story is quite different now; not just for her alone but for her whole family.
Its a family of 7. They should be 8 but unfortunately her younger sister of 12 years passed away a month ago after a short illnss. We found this family in such abject poverty that it was a struggle for the girl to keep up regular attendance at school even with our support because they could fail to get soap to wash her uniform sometimes. At other times it was failure to buy water which meant staying home that day. We are talking about items that cost about a third of a dollar or even less!

Its due to their unique setting that we have now added an extra touch to the mission of empowering this family. Beyond supporting the child in her overall growth, we have helped the mother to start a small scale income generating project. We have been preparing for this for sometime and we thank God that the mother is proving very hard working and ingenious in handling her business. We are guiding her on how to manage it well.
She is pictured below with some of the food she sells at their local market ( Thats sugarcane behind her, we couldnt picture the other items because the other users of the market didnt seem eager to appear in the photo!) standing with her is Jacky's younger brother.

We shall continue to do this with all families one at a time.
She can now afford a smile as she is beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel.

Many thanks once again to our sponsors because its because of you that this transformation is taking place in these families.

Fighting poverty

Below is the mother of Desire Hakizimana, our sponsored child. She hired land and is cultivating crops with the economic empowerment support she got from FALCO. Since she lost her husband two years ago, life has been quite hard. She has struggled to fend for her 3 children while battling hostility from her in-laws. We have had several counseling sessions with her and she is much stronger now. She is slowly stabilizing in her income and we look forward to a big harvest from her garden!
Thanks our sponsors for making this incredible transformation possible!

Academic Review

We did a simple review with the children to see how they are catching up and we found that many are improving greatly in their studies.

SCHOOL TIME

The second term of the year is here and our children are back to school. Here are pics of moments at school with other children.

Visitor's are welcome

It is awlays an honor to host student interns from Gothenburg University in Sweden. Last week was not different. We visited families, POTTERS VILLAGE, a home for abandoned babies and a refugee transit centre; this is the camp where refugees fleeing the instability in D. R Congo are received and given various services before they are transferred to the settlement camps in other parts of Uganda. Thanks to the ladies who have taken on children for sponsorship. God bless you big.

CHILDREN'S CLASS

1st May 2016 was a great day for all of us at FALCO. We had a centre day which was special in many ways. First was the updating of info about the newly registered families, then workshops, singing and learning ensued. the theme for the day was children's rights and protection.
Too many children and their parents are not aware of their basic fundamental rights provided for under the law. for that reason, child abuse is almost an acceptable norm in many communities. That's why we decided to sensitise both the children and their parents on the topic. Children are denied their right to education, food, care, and other basic needs by many parents and nothing is done about it.
Child protection is one of our key objectives and we hope to continue working with the local government, police and other child advocacy organisations to promote children's rights.

Here are some of the moments with the children.