Tag: KCDO Kyamaganda Community Development Organization

PPE Arrives from California

A very generous contribution of cloth and plastic face masks, as well as other Personal Protection Equipment, which will protect our KCDO staff and community members, arrived today from California. The package was prepared by Dr. Eliza Lo Chin, MD, MPH, Executive Director of the American Women’s Hospitals Service, a program of the American Medical Women’s Association, https://www.amwa-doc.org/, and by her friend, Khawaja.

It has taken several months to organize this donation as Dr. Eliza had to get permission from her organization to export these critical PPE items. Khawaja then FedExed the package to Wonderland BookSavers, who then sent the package by DHL to Kampala. From Kampala, Ms. Sarah sent the package by taxi to Kyamaganda, Here at KCDO, the items have been distributed. We continue to work for the safety of our community members during this difficult Covid-19 pandemic. Many thanks to Dr. Eliza Lo Chin, Khawaja and the American Women’s Hospitals Service!

Rakai Health Sciences Supports Community

We are so grateful to Rakai Health Sciences Program for their continued support of our KCDO community. This week Rakai supported 35 households with items that will enhance agricultural production of foods, both for family use and for sale at market.

Agricultural support items include spray pumps, improved maize, fertilizers, and herbicides; all of these will allow for the community to support themselves through producing maize on a commercial level.

Additional information was shared from an environmental engineer in the US. Stephen Henshaw writes, “Please read the labels thoroughly and make sure that the children are not exposed to harmful chemicals. Skin absorbs chemicals. Chemicals also go into ground water and travel from fields to other areas. Do not let children touch herbicides and fertilizers. Children should never be near bottles or mixtures with these chemicals.”

Willy responded, “Great for that technical guidance and hope the engineer can give us timely guidance to overcome environmental pollution and related long-term undesirable effects.”

Thank you SO much Rakai Health Sciences Program! The KCDO women, children and families are so grateful for your continued support, and are proud to have the opportunity to produce quality maize for commercial sales in the market.

Covid-19: Food and Water?

While the world is held hostage by this terrible virus, and children everywhere are told, “Just keep washing your hands!” the children of KCDO are wondering not only how to wash their hands without water, but also wondering how to get food, now that everyone is under quarantine.

The lack of running water is always a problem, but during this pandemic mothers and children are doing the best they can.

This young woman is using stockings as a mask.

One of the main difficulties that families are facing is the lack of food. Fortunately the Wonderland BookSavers Go Fund Me page funds sent to KCDO are enabling the community to purchase beans, rice and cooking oil.

This KCDO community leader is delivering sacks of food to the many villagers who are suffering starvation due to this pandemic.

Thank you so much to the many American donors who have enabled this supply of food.

Please keep remembering these children in your prayers. They are praying for you as well.

Community Helps Renovate House for Vulnerable Children

Yesterday we had mobilized the youth and community people after the
childrens party to come on Saturday and we help the household with eleven orphaned children. The children stay with old grandmother aged 69 years. The oldest girl is 12 years and the youngest is 8 years. The house they stay in is made up of mud and wattles. The house is in sorry state.

Today we got a good Samaritan who gave us bricks and they have been carried to the site and the foundation was dug. The rural people have participated and we hope by the end of January it will be ready for use. The only challenge is manufactured materials that are not available in the community but the will to make it so is available.

The kitchen is also worrying and the household was chancefully supported
with T-shirts and some shoes.

Tough Mudder Comes to Kyamaganda

Our reach from one continent to another continues to grow.  Today more T-shirt donations, in coordination with US-Africa Children’s Fellowship and Wonderland BookSavers reached the Kyamaganda Community Development Organization.

As Mark (usacf.net) explained, “Tough Mudder is a for profit organization that runs sports competitions. Basically they set up huge obstacles courses that run for miles. Some of their events run for 24 hours. Contestants run up and down hills, climb over rope walls, splash through mud and crawl on their bellies. They run events across the United States and in England. Up to 400,000 people compete every year. They print about 450,000 T-shirts a year to make sure they have enough. Because I know one of the staff members of Tough Mudder, USACF gets all the extras.

The Kyamaganda community children are already living under extremely competitive and difficult conditions. They are the true winners of the Tough Mudder competition and should wear their T-shirts with pride. They are the real winners!