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July 2008 Newsletter

Safe House:

The Safe House is a home in Gulu where 25 destitute orphans will be living, where they will receive in-depth counseling, food, clothes, love and a place where it is safe for them to heal.

The house is complete! The fence surrounding the property that will protect the children is being in the final stages of being completed!

We still need $6,000 to buy beds, bedding, clothes for the children, and kitchen supplies before we can move the children.

Please consider giving towards the completion of the Safe House!

Village:

The Village is where we will build homes, a school, medical clinic and grow agriculture for over 300 orphans. It is exciting to see all the progress that has been made in such a short time.

Our dream is to move our orphans out of the fear and insecurity in Gulu to this Village. They will have the opportunity to be “children” again, not having to fear abduction by the Rebels and can begin healing from all the trauma they have experienced.

The 100 acres of land has been purchased. The Architectural plans for the land is being completed. A well will be drilled in 30-60 days!

Our next steps: Phase I
 

Build 10 homes: $200,000
Build a 6 classroom school: $40,000
Build a farm house, livestock pens, barn and start growing crops to feed the children and bring in an income for the Village. $30,000
Build a Director’s home: $20,000

This will allow us to move the first group of 100 orphans to their new home!

Recently I asked Rose, our Director in Gulu, how she decides each month which of the 200 orphans she will feed in the Refugee camps, since we don’t have the money to feed them all.  This was her response:

“Sister, indeed selecting who benefits first is so challenging but these vulnerable children themselves are so amazing. They are so understanding and sacrificial. Among the most needy, they themselves know how to look and select the ones who are the most needy and they sacrifice to that one, without any complains but wait upon God for more blessings, and indeed their faith brings more blessings like through the funds we are now seeing through your tireless work. So I only guide where needed, hand in hand with the community members. But I like their heart of sacrifice and the way they look at things even when they themselves lack the same, this makes my work even easier.”

Our desire is that they all get fed, that they all get blankets and mattresses to sleep on, that they all are able to attend school. Unfortunately we can’t help the all, but we can help some!