January/February/march
REPORT
We would like to wish our family around
the Globe a prosperous New Year 2014. We congratulate every reader and well-wisher
always on our side and thank on behalf of Children’s Hope Uganda everybody who
has spared a minute or two to say a word of prayer to our ministry or share it
with a friend. The Lord has really heard your prayers and we would want to
share the following with you.
School
We would first of all thank everybody
behind the schooling of a few kids for the far you have taken them. I would
like to express out that Breanne and Natalie have abducted the two boys they
sponsor from our ministry to another home on 23rd, March 2014. This
has been a result of their kids thinking that whatever is eaten and all that we
use at the ministry comes from their sponsors and that it belongs to them. After
meeting their sponsors, they told them that they do not eat, they sleep
outside, and we eat their money while they are getting nothing. They added many things and their sponsors sheepishly
changed their minds without reasoning and torching their hearts if they have
sent any money for rent or the food they have been feeding on. It happened and
those two boys sold 50kg of rice when I had gone to the hospital for treatment early
January this year.
The rest of the kids in our ministry
are doing well in the programs we have and very soon with your support and
help, we could enroll them in different schools or in our own that we hope to
start next year. The kids have been studying since early February and holidays
start immediately after Easter and they will report back for a new term Early
June 2014.
Sponsorship program
We are grateful to inform you that we
have had people confirm to sponsor individual kids though not all of them have
got yet, but 20% of them now have sponsors who have already started giving
monthly support for them. This is very important and we need more people on
board to support the kids in this way to be able to cover all of them. We ask
for $35 monthly for each child. This caters for school fees, scholastic
materials, lunch for the every weekend programs for all the kids, and as well
feed the care taker and cooks who remain at the centre full time to protect our
kids.
Health
It’s on this note that we inform you
that my health (vision bearer) at the beginning of this year was bad. I was ill
for the whole of January and part of February. My sister has helped me a lot by
staying with kids in the house up to now. She has been cooking, washing
utensils, clothes for the young kids and making sure the young kids are clean. Very
soon, we shall get a center mother and my sister would go back home.
We have also had one of a kid with
Asthma. Every kid is well. No more worms because we ensue timely deworming
every three months. With cleanliness, all kids are improving generally. We pray
that everyone gets what to use like towels, tooth brush, tooth paste, bathing
soap, sponge, sandals, a bed, beddings, a metallic bag to keep their belongings
safely. With all these in place, we shall be at greater heights. On top of
this, we need a first aid house kit for the care taker to attend to any
emergencies just in case one arises.
If anybody can support us with the above items
to support 15 kids, it would be of a great help.
Sports
We love and wish to be active in
sports to keep and strengthen talents of the kids. You could sponsor us with
any kind of sports materials because our kids are passionate for sports but
lack playing materials. With such playing materials, we would greatly be the
best in sports.
Project
We thank
everybody that has taken the interest in supporting our ministry through
prayer, or help or letting a friend know about what we do. We have received
$350 dollars that we used to acquire mattresses and provide food from Carly and
her teammates students from APU. We have received another bunch of $370 that
has provided rent for three months (November- January) all by Courtesy of our
dad David Bixby. We have received $630 dollars again from David Bixby and
Rhonda Thatcher. All this was to provide special meals this Christmas season
and other supplies. . We received another bunch of $500 in February this year all
from Dr. Dave. This was as well to pay for rent for months February, March,
April and part of May but much of it was used for food supplies. We remain in
need of your support to keep the ministry moving well. We have by God’s Grace received a PAS through
plant a seed organization where every support would pass through their
organization to Children’s Hope Uganda with a negligible tax and hopefully very
soon, we shall meet with plant a seed that
would get you with the accountability of your support both financial and
material support.
We have so
far acquired a few fixed assets that you may witness with your eyes and they
include;
1. 7 beds for
the kids
2. 15 pairs of
bed sheets
3. 3 jerrycans
4. 2 dozens of
cups
5. 2 dozens of
plats
6. A set of
four dishes
7. Swizzers
and brooms
8. 3 charcoal stoves
9. 6 Learning charts
and six novels
1. 2 buckets
1. 3 basins
1. 5 saucepans
1. 1 goat
1. 2 Knives
Our current
needs for Children’s Hope Uganda include;
a. Bigger
fenced house with ample space for games and sports as well as projects
b. Food for
the kids
c. 1 Center
mother
d. More beds
to cover all the 15 kids
e. Bedcovers/blankets
for 15 kids
f.
Clothes for kids
g. More sponsors
for the kids and projects for sustainability of the organization
h. Health
covers for the meantime
Dinning tables
And the
following are the challenges we face;
a. Lack of
income generating projects
b. Feeding children
with quality food
c. Housing
children (house rent, water and electricity bills)
d. Lack of
government hand
e. Recruitment
of the ones in need
f.
Increasing number of orphans and other vulnerable
children into the project
g. Indiscipline
of the kids full of lies and other sorts of bad things
h. Lack of
income to address
I.
Beddings
II.
Clothes
III.
Shelter
i.
Assorted materials
j.
Medical care
k. Lack of
partners
We would
like to inform you that we have applied for the certificate of incorporation
with the government of Uganda. A visit was made by the government officials
from the ministry of health and probation offices and we were tasked to review
our standards as prescribed by the government and we have been accepted to work
as a community based organization in Kabale district (Uganda). We have been
allowed to operate as we wait for the certificate.
We are very
much excited to inform that we have held the first board meeting that comprises
of six members and the rest (3) members are directly from the health, probation
office, and local councils 3, 2 and 1.
Two of the
board members have met Breanne and Natalie whom we expected to be the visitors
to our project and kept coming taking two boys out and finally took them out of
our project without our knowledge. This is against Ugandan laws and is a case (abduction)
answerable.
On this note, allow me to inform everyone who
is ready or willing to volunteer with us to follow our volunteer guidelines in
order not to terminate our volunteer agreement before time.
We would
like to inform you that we have 8 kids in the house we are in. Very soon, we
will be joined by five other kids who urinate on beds. They are staying with
one mum that is training them to stop the habit. The rest (2) kids are staying
with my mum and they will as well join us very soon. Our next board meeting
shall be focusing on opening a nonprofit dollar account where all your
donations and support would be wired to. We shall have two signatories for any
funds to be released from the bank
Pressing Needs
The kids having
been resettled, there is a need to buy them a set of clothes, 2 pairs of bed
sheets, beds and a pair of shoes. These
are really so much needed at the moment to supplement what we already gave them
to complete our planned package for them.
Once again,
individual sponsors are in our daily prayer requests. Come up and be our answered prayer.
Continue to
pray that we acquire income generating projects. This would support us in one
way or the other in case of any emergency or at times when funds delay and
above all for sustainability of our ministry. You could sponsor one or two
projects for sustainability of our ministry.
There is
still need for rent until the ministry acquires its own buildings. We urge you
to support us generously with a house rent of $150 per months, $50 water and
electricity bills, and $15 dollars per day to provide meals to 15 kids. And
with this, we shall be enabled to reach the next phase we are looking forward
to achieve.
Conclusion
Its
on this special that we thank all those who pray for us and support us
financially, especially Dr. David Bixby, Rhonda Thatcher, Berbera Moser, Dee
and others plus plant a seed organization for giving us a PAS through to
Children’s Hope Uganda. For it is the reason we are today. We very much
appreciate your partnership and support, and we pray that you will be blessed
the more so as to continue being a blessing to us.
Compile
by Levis Katwesigye
Project Director
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