Willy writes, “I Am happy to inform you that we secured 400 mosquito nets for our supported children.”
“The nestswere donated by Peace Corp Uganda through Lwengo District local government.”
“Uncle Jackson Wadidi and leader of the Catholic laity, Mr. Lubega, showing how to lay out mosquito nets before use, and sharing learning materials to study at home with children.”
150 homes have been served with mosquito netting and Covid-19 health information
“We are happy and hearts rejoicing today as we have distributed mosquito nets and lockdown learning materials to vulnerable households in Lwengo District.“
The Covid-19 pandemic has reached Uganda, and KCDO offices are being closed; the piggery is being temporarily disbanded. Fortunately, notwithstanding the pandemic, the KCDO piggery is providing frontline micro-economic opportunities for local women in the Lwengo District of Uganda.
As Jack Neighbor notes in a recent article in National Geographic, “Women have long been underestimated and underutilized in many societies, including across Africa. Now, through hard work, global commitments, and localized training initiatives, women entrepreneurs are making their mark on the economies of southern Africa.”
Each piglet, with her bag of food, is ready to start a new piggery
To Neighbor’s point, both the piggery and KCDO are using this opportunity to provide 20 local women with booster grants and materials to start their own businesses. KCDO has been teaching entrepreneurial skills for the past year. The women graduates are now provided with the tools for success.
Willy writes, “Am happy to inform you that today, Saturday, we have been able to support 20 women with income generating projects to assist them in these trying moments. 10 women got pigs, animal feed and booster feeds to start their own piggery schemes at the household level. Others have got retail shops items like merchandise goods, drums for brewery, seedlings, fertilizers since its planting season, among others.”
And he says,
“We are grateful to Wonderland BookSavers and the team who helped us start the piggery project that is supporting other small businesses for rural poor women in Kyamaganda community and Lwengo District.”
This is a great example of successful micro-entrepreneurship, which started with a fund-raising pool party in the USA and 8 months later concludes with financial independence for 20 women and their families in Uganda.
“Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.” Romans 12:10
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.
Donations of books, soccer balls and T-shirts were recently received by the principals from local schools in the Kyamaganda community. Donations were sent by US-Africa Children’s Fellowship and Wonderland BookSavers.
These boxes of books and school supplies have traveled from the US to Zimbabwe and then, with great difficulty, to the Kyamaganda Community Development Organization, where they are being sorted so that they can be shared between the KCDO library and local schools.
letters of thanks from school principals
KCDO students are currently on school holiday. When they return, they will be greeted by many new books, both textbooks and children’s fiction. The soccer balls will be the best surprise!
Pictured here are some of the children who acquired clothes from the boxes we received from the distribution center, established by Wonderland BookSaversand US-Africa Children’s Fellowship in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
Sadly all of these children are from Kiwangala Health centre IV and are HIV and AIDS positive children. They stay with older care takers and the majority do not attend school because of school fees challenges.
Out of 50 children in the picture only 18 have shoes and some have torn clothes because of weak financial stand. This is why we have submitted sponsorship proposal for future finding of partners who can adopt some of these children for Sponsorships. Additionally, if you would like to help these children, no funds needed, please see our list of much needed goods, Donate.
As resources allow, these children will all participate in the children’s Christmas party in mid-December.
Kyamaganda is a member of the Catholic parish of Kyamaganda. Both children and adults regularly attend church services. Prayer is important as we put our faith in God, knowing that with God’s love, we will find a way to both survive and thrive.
Our prayers have been answered. We have received books and our children can receive an education. We continue to pray as much is still needed. Can you join us? Please say a prayer or a rosary with us. Together we can both be Blessed by our love for one another. Contact us if you would like to join us in prayer,
