Full day, awesome team – all are feeling great, its a good tired!!

• Started the morning with giving out 600+ blankets to Koreng primary
  Medical Clinic, 184 primary 1 and 2 children had check ups and were given medicine.
• Mattresses, 21 mattresses were taken to elderly in the village – one village at a time.
• Stories and Games – Lessons and songs were enjoyed by over 120 of the primary children 1200 smiles and giggles by the children at both Koreng Primary and Kadachar Primary schools.

Mama Dot

Hope this finds you well. As I’m sure you are. Things have gone extremely well here in Kaihura and I will miss all of them.
The baby orphanage is coming along oh so well and moving quite fast. So cool to watch it as it gets built. The guys that are engineering it all are so nice fun to chat with. I let them know how much we appreciate it. I am thinking of maybe buying them sodas or something before I leave as a thank you. I have taken some progress pics.

Of course there is my baby, Cooper, who just arrived. Love him to pieces. There is also another young boy, about one, that just arrived. Their biggest needs right now are more funds for milk/diapers, another crib (as the # of babies has grown, right now 2/3 babies are sleeping in each crib), and another house mother would be perfect (I couldn’t agree more).

The children’s home is quiet (well I don’t mean that literally) at the moment. The kids left for boarding school two weeks ago. It was so great to catch up with all of them and show them some love. The babies are taking over! Home Again now has a blind girl (Christmas Ruth) that they took in. Her story is so sad. They are currently looking for a school for her to attend. Plenty of twins are running around and such.

The clinic has been working HARD! Malaria has hit just about everyone in the community it feels like. Luckily it doesn’t last more than a few days. They are so lucky to have the medical clinic and have it so close by. Every Tuesday and Friday they hold a clinic for the HIV patients. They give out the treatment and ensure they are doing just fine.

Much of my time here has been focused towards a new program that I am hoping will grow over the next year. The program is called Hope With No Limits. The focus is towards eradicating poverty in the surrounding counties by helping the poorest household to generate income and become sustainable. I have completed phase one with a group of about five other staff members from BHTF. I had leaders from the local council identify the poorest families in their community. We have about 150 families at the moment. To start off with a sample, we visited 25 of those families and distributed a questionnaire. We prayed for them and toured their home. The need was HIGH. I went ahead and took care of one guy with HIV. He basically wanted to die and so he stopped taking his meds. I moved him in a room close to Faith’s home and admitted him to the clinic. I purchased a bed, mattress, and other items so he could live on his own and be observed. I am hoping to have them move on to phase two while I am away. That phase being a conference with those families and local leaders on how we can improve things. I am hoping EU will be able to help somehow!

Jason

Imagine yourself immersed in the culture of Uganda…loving on orphans, teaching students, roofing teachers’ houses, delivering mattresses and mosquito nets, refurbishing an orphanage…RESTORING HOPE.

That’s what a first-hand, on-the-ground experience in Uganda looks like. We learn their names…and listen to their stories.

Perhaps you want to invest in a team member’s opportunity to go or donate toward the $14,000 we raise for our projects on the ground. Please visit http://www.embraceuganda.org/donate to donate.

We will have two teams going this year, a Short Term and Long Term team.

• Short Term Team (June 25 – July 9, 2016) Focus Koreng with visit to Agape Children’s Village
• Long Term Team (June 25 – December 20, 2016) Kaihura, Agape Children’s Village & Koreng

Embrace Uganda has partnered with www.bonfirefunds.com and is selling t-shirts to raise funds for our 2016 summer mission team’s projects. The money raised from T-shirt sales will go towards mission projects such as clean water wells, medical clinics, solar panels, and educational scholarships for orphans. Check out this year’s collection of shirts at https://www.bonfirefunds.com/embrace-uganda-t-shirt-fundraiser.