Family Care Uganda

Something Out Of Nothing

admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:16:03 +0000

Each week is seeing a LOT of tangible progress. The toilet is getting the roof today, after having the walls cemented smoothly.

It’s exciting that the toilet block has been built just in perfect time before the students come back.

New Year, New Building Projects.

admin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:08:44 +0000

Happy New Year friends! Well we’re excited as we’re off to a new start with … a brand new toilet block being constructed for the school for our orphans.

It’s far more efficient here in Uganda to do a project quickly with a bigger team, so the whole thing will be finished, cemented and painted within a week. We’re very excited and are so grateful to those of you who contributed to making it possible–just in time before the children return to school.

At the same time the roof of the second building is being completed. It’s so exciting seeing all this solid progress as properly ventilated, clean toilets for the children is essential. We have a lot to do before they come back to school in 10 days so … it’s not boring! =)

Thank you for all your support!

admin — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:09:04 +0000

We can’t say how grateful we are to have been able to team work with so many of you across the world. Whether your contribution was in prayer, in sending donated items or sending donations, large or small, we couldn’t do without you! We pray the Lord blesses you for your giving. These children’s lives will never be the same!

Blackboards, Sanding Desks and Dancing!

admin — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 08:40:42 +0000

It’s exciting working together with the orphans to improve their school! They just finished end of year exams, so now we were free to paint all the black boards.

Anisa & Sean teaching with a gorgeous new blackboard in the background.

It’s so nice for the kids to hear Character Building stories after their hard work during the exams last week. Here Sean & Deedz take time with each one, helping them understand these beautiful stories.

The last week of the term we used for improvements. Here the children are sanding their desks so they look nice & fresh when they come back to school.

The end of term allows some opportunity to relax and enjoy things together. Here Sean is playing drums with the boys, between practice for the girls’ dances.

Michael and Robin counseling about the next step for our P7 students

Children So Happy With Their New Building

admin — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 07:55:24 +0000

Teacher Mary with some of the P3 class– so happy to have moved into their airy, bright, spacious classrooms, even though they’re not yet painted.

One of our orphans in P3 (Primary third grade) so happy with how much she’s learning.

Teacher Jennifer our Science & Maths specialist.

The Sky is the Limit!

admin — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:43:48 +0000

It’s amazing how smoothly things are falling into place with the school refurbishing. Almost all the cementing & plastering is done, both inside & out for both buildings, and the roof on the second building has began. The kids are so excited about this new, fresh place to study! Thank you so much to each of you who has contributed to help this dream become a reality!

Farm Progress

admin — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:40:30 +0000

We’re seeing real progress as the cabbages continue to grow! Having harvested 2 batches, the next are on their way.

Rajan here inspecting the latest batch, and below, teaching the workers how to use the grasscutter. Elephant grass is a real challenge, but is also tremendous for mulch.

The next batch, ready to be transplanted in a couple days:

Progress!

admin — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:20:57 +0000

We have a team working daily to get the building ready for the orphans to move in on Monday.

Cementing the School Has Begun

admin — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:17:42 +0000

As soon as we signed the official documents giving us the school to use for the orphans, we put a large team on cementing. It was in a state of major disrepair and is going to take a lot of real miracles to get it up to snuff. (see ‘before’ photos below).

We’ve Just Been Given a School Building to Use!!!

admin — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:18:59 +0000

Time to roll up our sleeves & get scrubbing, cementing and painting!! Yay! During the time we’re seeking donor funding to build the brand new classrooms, houses for the orphans and staff on our land in Gulu, and establishing the farm to support it all, we had been asked to take on considerably more needy children, above the initial 160 orphans we had taken on to care for. The catch was, the premises we were temporarily schooling them in was beginning to become inadequate.

Well, God is always in control, and this last week, we were just GIVEN this school below to use until our buildings are ready for the orphans to shift to.

It has 6 large classrooms, office and teachers’ facilities, is airy & spacious & just needs a mighty scrub, cementing and painting. It’s a win-win situation for us all. We are so excited to get going and if anyone could chip in with something towards the plastering and paint, we’d be most grateful, and it’ll be a long-term help to the disadvantaged children and orphans in the area for years to come.

Our first job this weekend is to repair the cemented floors, touch up the walls prior to painting and to paint the blackboards.

The beautiful, fresh, clean play ground for the children! And a clear picture, with one of the buildings in the background, how we need to really have our sleeves rolled up over the next couple months! Thanks so much for your prayers for our efforts & if you could help in any way towards a few cement bags or 20lt jerry cans of paint, we’d be so very grateful!