The project is becoming official. We are in the process of setting up a CBO Community Based Organization in Uganda the name is Kisoboka-It is Possible!
The children will all be returning to school on Monday. The beginning of the second semester, the second semester the children compete in Futball and net ball it is a village wide tournament.
In the month of April Medical update
10 children were treated for malaria
1 5 year old child was treated 4 times for second degree burns
1 child treated for an absess
9 parents were treated for various sicknesses
352 students and 12 teachers had a dental exam
Total bill $532.48
Hospital visits and follow ups
Angel- had tubes put in her ears that helped her hearing slightly. She will return weekly to have her ears cleaned out.
Lovita and Topista was provided medication for epilepsy.
Venestia- had her eyes examined but her eyes are too far gone.
Daniel- continues to make improvement. He will be receiving an chair and frame this month.
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
April - amazing
The children had a wonderful Easter Dinner. A church service led by Pastor Frank, a meal , followed by games. Thank you to everyone that donated to there meal!
All 15 secondary students have their school supplies.
Our 2 candidates will be living at school starting when they return to school.
Our Kids are all receiving dental care. A dentist went to the school and evaluated all the children and teachers.
300 teeth need to be pulled $1,200
291 teeth filled $3492
156 Cleaning and fluoride treatment $2496.00
Donations welcomed this is not a small bill.
We are starting the project to build a second well in the village!
A team of 8 confirmed going on our trip in September - October
Saturday Evening 6:00 PM at Trinity Covenant Church. We are having Lasagna, salad, rolls, and desert. I will be telling the story of the project from the beginning ending as current as possible. So much is happening so fast even I can't keep up! ALL WELCOMED!
All 15 secondary students have their school supplies.
Our 2 candidates will be living at school starting when they return to school.
Our Kids are all receiving dental care. A dentist went to the school and evaluated all the children and teachers.
300 teeth need to be pulled $1,200
291 teeth filled $3492
156 Cleaning and fluoride treatment $2496.00
Donations welcomed this is not a small bill.
We are starting the project to build a second well in the village!
A team of 8 confirmed going on our trip in September - October
Saturday Evening 6:00 PM at Trinity Covenant Church. We are having Lasagna, salad, rolls, and desert. I will be telling the story of the project from the beginning ending as current as possible. So much is happening so fast even I can't keep up! ALL WELCOMED!
Sunday, April 6, 2014
April 26 - Mission Trip Fund Raiser
Uganda Mission Trip Fund Raiser
April 26 6:00 PM @ Trinity Covenant Church - Lexington
Come enjoy a meal, get an update on the amazing work God is doing at
The Christian Friends Mission Academy- Uganda
Meet the Team going in October.
What is the cost ? what ever you would pay for a Saturday evening out. (Up to you)
April 26 6:00 PM @ Trinity Covenant Church - Lexington
Come enjoy a meal, get an update on the amazing work God is doing at
The Christian Friends Mission Academy- Uganda
Meet the Team going in October.
What is the cost ? what ever you would pay for a Saturday evening out. (Up to you)
Saturday, March 15, 2014
2 weeks back!
As my previous posts indicates my February visit was hard. So many tough situations to witness.
It was mentally draining for me, how was I going to take care of what God had presented me with.
I always loved the children and people of Uganda with the love of a mother. This visit my love was more intense, my love was God's love. Very humbling. My emotions were not explainable, so I prayed asking God how I could explain. He put Psalm 51 v 17 on my heart. The sacrifice that is acceptable to God is a broken spirit, a broken and worn down heart. This verse explained exactly how I felt during my visit!
.
DUHHHH It is not going to be accomplished through my skills and knowledge. God was going to work through me. God's power is UNLIMITED.
ALL IN 2 WEEKS WONDERFUL CONNECTIONS MADE! God has provided the right people at the right time to be the connector to get His work done!
1. Rachael - living in a bar scared and alone, is now living in a loving caring home getting wonderful pre-natal care. She is having a girl,
2. Vinencia's medical care for her blindness evaluation funding provided!
3. Daniel already receive treatment and care at Cure International. His mom is hopeful now! Follow up visit next week at a hospital closer to Kampala.
4. Angel's medical care for her deafness evaluation funding provided!
5. Discussion's on building another well started
6. Partner for community projects found and details being worked out. Three families will be blessed by this project.
7. The first year secondary students need uniforms and school supplies. $100.00 each 3 students provided for!
Support Request
Monthly medical bills are growing ~~$500.00 per month. We will be deworming all of the children this month this adds an extra $160.00 to the bill.
Easter Dinner- $1,200 to provide the children a meal at Easter.
Sponsorship - Currently 94 students sponsored we need 114 to meet our monthly budget.Difference is met through my fund raising efforts
Secondary student school supplies- $900 still needed
Sponsorship - Answer to a question I was recently asked.
How I come up with the number of children that need sponsoring and why does it change?
First my goal is to have every child at the Christian Friends Mission Academy sponsored. Current enrollment 356.(down about 50 from last years enrollment) That would be $6,400 per month. WOW what could be done with those funds!
The number of children we need sponsored is based on the budget commitment I make at the beginning of each school year.
The budget pays the teachers salary, provides a meal for every child and provides personal items for every girl. As we add new teachers or give teachers a raise, make a change to the meals, the budget goes up so the number of children we need sponsored goes up.
Additions to this years budget
2 new teachers and added an Administrative role.
We now serve a meal of rice every Friday this one meal costs as much as serving the children porridge Monday -Thursday.
The sponsorship program is $25.00 per month.100% goes to the child covering their school fees and free medical care for their family. The sponsor receives pictures, letters and report cards from the sponsored child.
The sponsored child is proud to have someone in the US that loves and prays for them. They are happy to attend school.
I will be visiting Uganda again early October, I will bring small gifts to yo.ur child when I go. You will receive pictures of the child receiving the gift
Contact Sandy Gannon s-gannon@hotmail.com if you are interested in sponsoring a child.
Prayer requests for big projects, guidance and wisdom on how to proceed.
Children walk to school 2 1/2 hours a day. We are investigating providing transportation. The cost to purchase a van $7,000.00 and pay the driver ~ $100 per month.
To hire a van would be $500.00 per month.
Building the final building at the school Office- Library- Medical Center and Kitchen ~ $30,000
Fence around the school ~ $7,000
It was mentally draining for me, how was I going to take care of what God had presented me with.
I always loved the children and people of Uganda with the love of a mother. This visit my love was more intense, my love was God's love. Very humbling. My emotions were not explainable, so I prayed asking God how I could explain. He put Psalm 51 v 17 on my heart. The sacrifice that is acceptable to God is a broken spirit, a broken and worn down heart. This verse explained exactly how I felt during my visit!
.
DUHHHH It is not going to be accomplished through my skills and knowledge. God was going to work through me. God's power is UNLIMITED.
ALL IN 2 WEEKS WONDERFUL CONNECTIONS MADE! God has provided the right people at the right time to be the connector to get His work done!
1. Rachael - living in a bar scared and alone, is now living in a loving caring home getting wonderful pre-natal care. She is having a girl,
2. Vinencia's medical care for her blindness evaluation funding provided!
3. Daniel already receive treatment and care at Cure International. His mom is hopeful now! Follow up visit next week at a hospital closer to Kampala.
4. Angel's medical care for her deafness evaluation funding provided!
5. Discussion's on building another well started
6. Partner for community projects found and details being worked out. Three families will be blessed by this project.
7. The first year secondary students need uniforms and school supplies. $100.00 each 3 students provided for!
Support Request
Monthly medical bills are growing ~~$500.00 per month. We will be deworming all of the children this month this adds an extra $160.00 to the bill.
Easter Dinner- $1,200 to provide the children a meal at Easter.
Sponsorship - Currently 94 students sponsored we need 114 to meet our monthly budget.Difference is met through my fund raising efforts
Secondary student school supplies- $900 still needed
Sponsorship - Answer to a question I was recently asked.
How I come up with the number of children that need sponsoring and why does it change?
First my goal is to have every child at the Christian Friends Mission Academy sponsored. Current enrollment 356.(down about 50 from last years enrollment) That would be $6,400 per month. WOW what could be done with those funds!
The number of children we need sponsored is based on the budget commitment I make at the beginning of each school year.
The budget pays the teachers salary, provides a meal for every child and provides personal items for every girl. As we add new teachers or give teachers a raise, make a change to the meals, the budget goes up so the number of children we need sponsored goes up.
Additions to this years budget
2 new teachers and added an Administrative role.
We now serve a meal of rice every Friday this one meal costs as much as serving the children porridge Monday -Thursday.
The sponsorship program is $25.00 per month.100% goes to the child covering their school fees and free medical care for their family. The sponsor receives pictures, letters and report cards from the sponsored child.
The sponsored child is proud to have someone in the US that loves and prays for them. They are happy to attend school.
I will be visiting Uganda again early October, I will bring small gifts to yo.ur child when I go. You will receive pictures of the child receiving the gift
Contact Sandy Gannon s-gannon@hotmail.com if you are interested in sponsoring a child.
Prayer requests for big projects, guidance and wisdom on how to proceed.
Children walk to school 2 1/2 hours a day. We are investigating providing transportation. The cost to purchase a van $7,000.00 and pay the driver ~ $100 per month.
To hire a van would be $500.00 per month.
Building the final building at the school Office- Library- Medical Center and Kitchen ~ $30,000
Fence around the school ~ $7,000
Friday, February 28, 2014
February Visit- A very tough visit
It is hard to believe we have already been to Uganda and back.
I interviewed 88 of the sponsored children.
Hard Facts
All 88 children I interviewed had someone close to them that has died. Mom, Dad, Brother or Sister.
This includes children that are 4 and 5 years old. HIV, Malaria, Typhoid, TB are all realities to these children.
One child had her baby brother sold, she did not talk about him, the pain is too much.
80% of the children I interviewed want to be a doctor, nurse or pharmacist. They want to build hospitals and pharmacies. Many are praying their mom lives long enough for them to care for them.
It is the dry season, everyone in the village was dehydrated. Sever dehydration is tough to witness, dry swollen lips,there hands were cold to the touch. A couple children dreamed of having a bike to make it easier to fetch water. Many walk for hours to get a couple gallons of water from a bore hole filling a jerri can, they carry on their head and walk another couple hours home. How they still functioning is beyond my comprehension.
Not one child had a selfish dream, not one child's dream was just for themself.
Home Visits
Interviewing the children ripped my heart out, how could so many innocent children have to deal with so much is incomprehensible to me. Interviewing the parents made me feel hopeless. The parents are hard working and determined facing odds that would break most people.
Viste, 4 years old in the baby class. His Grand parents care for him. Their son died and his mothered left to marry another man.Vinancia, Visite's Grandmother is blind. Her husband brought her to Uganda from the Congo when she started going blind in 2011. He was hoping to find a traditional doctor to care for her. She has never seen a doctor and is totally blind now. They left everything they own in the Congo, they live in a tiny storage room. Allonysia (her husband) works on other peoples farms and is paid by crops. They pay
$2.00 a month to live in the storage room. He does not earn that much in a month so it is difficult for them to pay their rent. He works from sun up to sun down.
My commitment to them.
He was born in the village and has 9 children. Most of his children are adults but all of his brothers and sisters have died. He is caring for all of their children. Angel is one of his sisters children. Angel is deaf, at the age of 3 she spilled boiling porridge on her neck, it became infected (scare tissue very visible) Thomas said around the same time Angel started loosing her hearing. He thinks it is connected but could never afford to take her to the doctor.
Thomas dream is that all the children he cares for receive a full education and know God.
He grows coffee, cassava ,sweet potatoes for food and sale. But it is the dry season so the gardens were barren they had no food.
My commitment to Thomas
I interviewed 88 of the sponsored children.
Hard Facts
All 88 children I interviewed had someone close to them that has died. Mom, Dad, Brother or Sister.
This includes children that are 4 and 5 years old. HIV, Malaria, Typhoid, TB are all realities to these children.
One child had her baby brother sold, she did not talk about him, the pain is too much.
80% of the children I interviewed want to be a doctor, nurse or pharmacist. They want to build hospitals and pharmacies. Many are praying their mom lives long enough for them to care for them.
It is the dry season, everyone in the village was dehydrated. Sever dehydration is tough to witness, dry swollen lips,there hands were cold to the touch. A couple children dreamed of having a bike to make it easier to fetch water. Many walk for hours to get a couple gallons of water from a bore hole filling a jerri can, they carry on their head and walk another couple hours home. How they still functioning is beyond my comprehension.
Not one child had a selfish dream, not one child's dream was just for themself.
Home Visits
Interviewing the children ripped my heart out, how could so many innocent children have to deal with so much is incomprehensible to me. Interviewing the parents made me feel hopeless. The parents are hard working and determined facing odds that would break most people.
Viste, 4 years old in the baby class. His Grand parents care for him. Their son died and his mothered left to marry another man.Vinancia, Visite's Grandmother is blind. Her husband brought her to Uganda from the Congo when she started going blind in 2011. He was hoping to find a traditional doctor to care for her. She has never seen a doctor and is totally blind now. They left everything they own in the Congo, they live in a tiny storage room. Allonysia (her husband) works on other peoples farms and is paid by crops. They pay
$2.00 a month to live in the storage room. He does not earn that much in a month so it is difficult for them to pay their rent. He works from sun up to sun down.
My commitment to them.
- Viste would not need to walk 2.5 hours to school any more we will provide transportation.
- We would provide their monthly rent
- Vinancia would be brought to a doctor to have her blindness evaluated.
He was born in the village and has 9 children. Most of his children are adults but all of his brothers and sisters have died. He is caring for all of their children. Angel is one of his sisters children. Angel is deaf, at the age of 3 she spilled boiling porridge on her neck, it became infected (scare tissue very visible) Thomas said around the same time Angel started loosing her hearing. He thinks it is connected but could never afford to take her to the doctor.
Thomas dream is that all the children he cares for receive a full education and know God.
He grows coffee, cassava ,sweet potatoes for food and sale. But it is the dry season so the gardens were barren they had no food.
My commitment to Thomas
- We would take Angel to a doctor for evaluation.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
January 2014 update
Christian Mission Academy
January 2014
At the School
The month of January is a vacation month for the Children.
During the month we hire 2 new teachers.
A new third grade teacher to replace Esther she will transition into a
new role overseeing all the children’s health and attendance at school.
The 7th grade class received their results. 15 out of 22 passed and will now be attending
secondary school! 30 students in Middle
school.
We are going to follow up with the children that did not
pass to find out if they are going to try again or if they want to do a trade
In 2008 no child at the school had completed 7th
grade. In 2010 we had our first
graduating class of 3 students. Next
year they will be ready for senior 2!
402 children in
pre-k through 6th grade. 62% of the children passed.
Health Care
Farouq had his
follow up appointment. Praise God no
surgery needed. Prayers that is bones
will begin to grow to accommodate his organs.
The day he had his final appointment he asked to call me. Calls from Uganda are not cheap. “Thank you Mom Sandy for loving me” “I love you” Made my day!
John a young second grader was brought to the hospital for an infection
in his chest.
Both thought they had hernias because of the pain.
Immaculate top
class had a severe case of Malaria over the vacation. She had one of the worst cases treated at
Show Mercy. Immaculate would not be
alive without having access to free
treatment
Viste –pre
kindergarten his guardian was treated at
Show Mercy. It was through Show Mercy
that we learned Vistes guardian is blind.
I will visit their home to find out how we can help.
Praise God for our partnership with Show Mercy Immaculate my
have died without their care.
Bore hole
construction
The hardest part of managing this project was getting
the money to the team in Uganda.
February Visit.
My niece Katie and I will be leaving on the 13th
of February. Katie will be observing and
teaching the Pre-k and kindergarten classes.
I am going to be interviewing all of the sponsored children.
I am so excited about this trip! It is a real blessing not to wait an entire
year to see the children again This trip
would not have been possible without the many generous donations!
Loving a Village One Child at Time!
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Saturday, February 1, 2014
February
I can't believe it is already February!
- The teachers returned to school this past Monday, 2 new teachers were hired
- The bore hole construction started this past Friday
- The kids return on Monday!
- Katie and I leave on the 13th
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