Family Update: MWESIGWA LEONARD #105081

It has been God's mercy that we got kind people to help us at a time when we lost our parents. I thank God for your love and kindness that you are showing us despite not knowing us. Your support was timely and a blessing from God because it would have been challenging for us to survive. I would have given up to my young sisters because of lack of basic necessities. We thank you for your generosity which has restored our hope and strength. We sleep without worries for the next day because you are there for us.

Your support has assisted us a lot especially in our education and feeding. We are all in school with old uniforms because most funds are spent on school fees since two of us are in private secondary schools. I am now in senior two and despite the heavy responsibility that I have, I can still manage to perform well and last term I got the 27th position out of 120 students in class. Esther and Rosette are in primary seven and sat for mock exams and their results were good because they were all in second grade. Sharon is in primary four and is doing well too. We are struggling with education having limited resources but somehow we are trying and God's is helping us. We only need new uniforms, shoes, swatters, school bags to protect our books from the heavy rains and other scholastic materials for next year. In terms of dressing, we are very grateful because we have at least two pairs of daily clothes and two pairs of Sunday clothes. We attend church every Sunday and we usually pay a tithe every two months because of the school fees problem.

Our neighbors are very friendly to us now and are always with us in case of any problem after the field officer talked to them. Our aunt comes home every week to check on us and see how we are doing. We also sometimes go to visit our relatives especially our grandfather who was taking care of some of my sisters but he lives far away from our home. The biggest problem that we have is that we have a small house which the community had built for us but is not strong because the supporting tress are hanging and might collapse when heavy winds or an earthquake comes and we cannot afford to make some repairs on it at the moment until January when we hope to make a saving if God wishes. But with God nothing is impossible. Health wise, we are fair except Sharon who they say might have measles according to the symptoms and we are yet to take her for checkup and ultimate treatment. We have also been maintaining 10% savings per months on our bank account according to the way we were trained.
We pray a lot and we trust God will do everything for us. Thank you for accepting to be our Parents and for all the love and care we are getting from you. We love you very much and look forward to seeing you in our home one time. God bless you dearly, protect you and reward your efforts.

Best regards from
Mwesigwa Leonard, my sisters and brother

Family Update: OKANGO IBRAHIM #106008

We are so happy for this great chance to write to you this letter for sending our sincere greetings to you and then thank you for your help to my family.
We received your help when we were very poor, we were without anything but now we are very pleased for what you do for us. We can eat, dress and children go to school.

As you know the family was so poor, we live with our children; they are 2girls and 2boys.Their names are as follows;

1. SANYA Patrick
2. WESONGA Aaron
3. NANDERA Morin
4. TAAKA Fiona

We are all fine and in good health. Our work is to cultivate, the problem we have in our agriculture is that our land is not fertile .We think that after getting manure the harvest will be good.
My wife and child WESONGA has helped me so much in every thing in order to get what to eat. SANYA Patrick is crippled he can’t do work like cultivation.

Before getting your sponsorship, we used to get problems in finding what to eat, dress and ways for survival was a problem. Now we are getting your help, we can get for our selves what to eat, we can dress and life is improving day by day.

With your sponsorship we have goats, a pig, mattresses, we have rehabilitated our latrine, buying food and other different issues, really you have improved our lives, we praise God for that.

Four months now NANDERA Morin has had persistent cough and chest pain, she has been taken to health units but there is no improvement, she is not in good condition.

Concerning education, WESONGA Aaron finished his secondary education, SANYA Patrick has finished his Ordinary Level he is pursuing secretariat studies at LUMINO POLYTECHNIC, the remaining two are still in primary level, they are doing well at school, they have uniform, but school materials are not enough, we will buy others step by step according to our possibilities.

We thank you for that caring spirit that you have shown to us, praise be to the Lord.

Love you,
OKAANGO IBRAIM