New Shed and Night Educational Games

FAMILY CARE UGANDA New Shed and Night Educational Games Robin Yamaguchi 17 December 2014 We’ve needed more housing for our building materials, so Mike and team skillfully built a really nice storage shed for our tools while we’re building permanent structures. We...

Studying, Examination prep and Dancing.

FAMILY CARE UGANDA Studying, Examination Prep and Dancing Robin Yamaguchi 17 December 2014 October is busy as we move closer towards the end of year exams. We follow the government curriculum closely, plus we add elements of character training, spiritual strengthening...

Excursion To the Capital!

FAMILY CARE UGANDA Excursion to the Capital! Robin Yamaguchi 9 December 2014 None of the orphans and vulnerable children in our school have ever traveled out of Gulu town, and some have never even been out of the deepest village. We’d wanted for some time to be able...

Teachers, Pupils and Exams

FAMILY CARE UGANDA Teachers, Pupils and Exams Robin Yamaguchi 2 August 2014 Term 2 is drawing to a close so we’ve been having end-of-term exams. The kids are feeling encouraged by their mid-term results and they feel they can really excel by the end of the year....

Progress, progress, progress!

FAMILY CARE UGANDA Progress, Progress, Progress! Robin Yamaguchi 2 June 2014 We are so grateful that Sadolin Uganda so generously gave to the project of painting our school! Our latest Administration block has rooms for the infirmary, staff room, head teachers and...

Getting to Know a Few More of our Pupils

FAMILY CARE UGANDA Getting to Know a Few More of Our Pupils Robin Yamaguchi 17 March 2014 Dear Odong (left) is now becoming such a cheerful boy. He actually has parents–he hasn’t seen his daddy who left 13 years ago and has been in CAR (Central African Republic) as a...

Celebrating Women’s Day with our Local Community

FAMILY CARE UGANDA Celebrating Women’s Day With Our Local Community Robin Yamaguchi 9 March 2014 Women’s Day is a very important celebration in our country. We had a huge parade, with speeches from our top dignitaries and many people are struggling to improve the...

Working Together to Make our School Awesome.

FAMILY CARE UGANDA Working Together to Make Our School Awesome Robin Yamaguchi 9 March 2014 One thing about Acholi young people is they love work and action! It’s the end of dry season and the well we were using dried up. We have an NGO who is planning to kindly put...

Getting to Know a Few of our Beautiful Pupils

FAMILY CARE UGANDA Getting to Know a Few of Our Beautiful Pupils Robin Yamaguchi 4 March 2014 Amidst the beautiful kids we have boarding and coming to day school, there are so many special young people with such strength of character who have struggled through thick...

Building Again! 4 New Rooms

FAMILY CARE UGANDA Building Again! 4 New Rooms Robin Yamaguchi 3 February 2014 We have been so busy during the school holidays building at the beginning of the school year. Below, see the foundations, then later progress just a bit later, of 4 new rooms. Scroll down...