support - to sustain or withstand; to serve as a foundation
It has been almost a month since we first asked you to support and pray for us during this challenging time, and we have been amazed and delighted at the response.
Thank you to all who are playing a part in helping us to support orphans, vulnerable children, and communities in Uganda - especially at the current challenging time.
You are helping us to support, to sustain or withstand, and serve as a foundation for many children at a time when they need it most, and we couldn’t do it without you!
The children are now in their 5th week home from school, and Uganda is in a stricter lock-down than the UK which is due to last until at least May 5th.
As can be seen above, the children are fine and enjoying their stay at home.
The children always do their revision in the morning which is spearheaded by Teddy (Social Worker). Later in the evening they focus on doing corrections for revision done in the morning for those in upper primary section, and they form discussion groups according to classes depending on the revision done on a particular day. The purpose is for the children to master the procedures of number work in the correct ways, especially in science and mathematics, and to help them break the belief that these subjects are hard and not easy to pass.
Food Relief from the office of the Prime Minister
On Wednesday 15th and Saturday 18th, the Children’s Home received food relief items from the Ministry of Gender, Labour, and Social Development through the office of the Prime Minister under the relief task force. The food included; 4 bags and 14 Kilograms of maize flour, 5 bags of Tooke flour, and 5 boxes of Teju juice, 20 kilograms of sugar, 10 big tins of Lato milk (powder), 1 bag and 11Kgs of beans.
Teddy (Social Worker) commented, “We praise the Lord for keeping his promise of providing to the children during this hard period.”
On Sunday after lunch, the children were served Teju juice and they loved it because it was tasty.
Today the children have been sorting the beans. Olivia (Administrator) said, “We have selected them according to type because they are all mixed up. We have then been trying to select the bad ones, and then after grouping them based on quality.”
Supporting Vulnerable Ugandan Children in Communities
During this time of need our primary focus has been to support the children and staff at Children’s Home, and ensuring that we are able to continue to do so in the future. We have however always been aware of those children who have been resettled and fostered from the Home who we continue to support for school fees, and those we support in the community for school fees, but until this point have been unable to support them.
We were therefore delighted to receive a phone call from a Ugandan lady living in Switzerland who wanted to raise funds for the children in the community and those resettled or fostered. Hellen has only just started raising awareness and funds for this project but has already raised £380.27. Due to the lock-down restrictions in Uganda, the best way to support these families is by sending money via mobile money - a service where you send money over the phone to another phone. Using this system, yesterday 28 families received enough funds each to purchase 14kgs of maize flour, 3.5kgs of beans and 3.5kgs of sugar, enough for a family for a week!
If you would like to know more about this project or support Hellen by donating you can do so by clicking here to visit her project page.