Family Sponsorhsip Update: RWANDEME DEZI 105049

I take this opportunity once again to hold a pen and a paper to write a word of appreciation to you for the love and care you have offered to my family. I first of all thank the almighty God for having given me such a good and kind friend. I am very grateful for the financial support that you send for me every month. It was really timely because I had almost nothing to use in up bringing the orphans I was left with. I was extremely excited for the cow that I received as a gift and for the miscellaneous gift which I used to buy blankets, mattresses and goats. It really took me by surprise and I was very happy to have received it. The cow and the goats are very healthy and doing very well. It is almost producing a calf because it is six months pregnant. We have already realized a grate change in our lives in aspects of health, diet, livestock, clothing, education, agriculture and business as a result of your support.

With the miscellaneous gift, I bought mattresses, blankets, goats and clothes for the children. Your support has generally changed the lifestyle of my family. We change diet quite often and eat good food that is even fried. We can afford meat twice in a month and 2 cups of milk every day to mix with maize porridge. The children look very healthy
because they eat three meals a day, something that never used to happen in the past! They even perform well in class. I have 6 goats and the children like them very much. We are still living in the old house and it is now in a very poor state. I am doing some repair on it and I am seriously planning to build a new one using my savings and your support. The children have enough clothes, school uniforms, shoes and scholastic materials. We have household items and garden tools. I am now dealing in charcoal business which I sell in Bigodi trading centre. I am also selling rids and stones because demand for those items is available in our area. This business will give me addition income to boost my family’s welfare.

I am growing old and weak but I am happy that my grand children can have something to eat and have a good and caring friend. I just pray for you every day to God almighty to grant you more years. I have a big garden of cassava and I hope to get good harvests that I will sell and get some good money. I am a strong catholic and I pray every day. I belong to the group of charismatic born again under the Catholic Church and I am the head of the laity in my village. My grand children are in holy childhood in the same church. We attend church every Sunday and the catechist visits us once every month. We hold prayer meetings in our charismatic congregation every Thursday and we praise and thank God for his wonderful mercy towards us. I remain eagerly waiting to see you, thank you very much for loving us. God bless you.
With lots of love,
Rwandeme Dezi

Family Update: KASIRYE GETRUDE #107010

Although I am growing old but I am very happy that I can now see some improvements in our lives. Like I told you that I want to improve on our house I have already started buying iron sheets and after I have acquired enough of them I will be able to roof it with iron sheets. I always buy one by one such that I can be able to do other things for the home. So far I have bought six iron sheets. You know we didn’t have a latrine for along period of time, we were using some pit latrine which was almost full and not built, we could even fear to use it during day time because one could see you since it was not built but now we, managed to pay some people and they dug for us a pit latrine whereby they about to finish and immediately we shall build it and in the next report you will be seeing a finished photograph of a latrine.
Like you know we have been with two goats, we have gone ahead and bought a pig, we want to increase our livestock slowly, we also have hens and they have now multiplied.
This is where my business will lie mostly and on handcraft like making mats and baskets, as you will see the mats in the photographs. These mats help us to get some income even though it is quite small but we are able to buy some small things at home like paraffin, sugar, soap and salt.

We finish our message by wishing you God’s blessings and we pray for you so much!

Family Update: KAMBUGU YUNIA #107006

To God be the glory, who gave us you to help us and given us life may his name be praised all the time for he has been good to us!
They told us you stay in Naperville, how is life there and the United States in general? For us, life in Uganda is just fine and we want to thank you for the entire support you give us, we have experienced a trend of positive change in our lives for good and our lives will never be the same again!

My grand children are happy too for the support that they are now studying with some support from your initiative, which I receive from you. They like studying so much and we are all Christians in our family and we like praying so much! Nsubuga who is 15yrs and Esta 13yrs, are now in primary 5 altogether. Whereas Bule is now a p.7 candidate and he will be joining secondary school next year. The three; Kasasa 5yrs, Nakanja 4yrs and Baruka 4yrs also started schooling and they are all happy as you see them in school uniform. The children are now at school for their first term syllabus and they always come in the evening with exception of the three young ones who come out at midday.
There is great achievement at home and in our lives because apart from our cow we bought the other time, we also bought other two sheep and a goat. We now have some animals, which will soon providing us with some milk like for the case of our cow. So far we are able to get the manure from all animals, which we use in our fields. We are very happy that our sheep produced two young ones and they are now very many, even one of our goats conceived! (Our cow was not photographed because it had gone to graze far away).

Concerning our coffee and bananas we planted, have got enough manure from our cow there is enough rain for them to grow well. We also harvested some beans and the maize therefore we have enough food to survive on in our family. We also ground some maize flour from the maize for both our consumption and sold off some little to the shops. We have already cleared the fields for the next season. We are now experiencing heavy rains and we are waiting for them to reduce such that they do not damage our crops. Usually this would be the planting season but the weather changed and we are sure we shall plant in this month maybe by the end of this month there the rains will have reduced.
We want to finish our letter from here and pray that, May God bless you abundantly!

Love you very much,

Family Update: BIRUNGI PUROSI #107004

It is my pleasure for this opportunity to write to you for another time and to send you our heart felt greetings and thank you for the entire support since 2007 up to now! It’s very great and it has helped us in many ways in our daily lives, thank you so much!
I no longer suffer with my children like in looking for food or other family needs like before sponsoring us.

My children and I are all fine, Akim is now three years old and he will be joining schooling possibly next year but he is still young to start schooling. I also baptized my youngest boy, remember you started sponsoring me when I was pregnant and I later produced of which I informed you and you are aware of that, now this young boy was baptized Faluk Musisi who is now 1 year and six months old. They are all fine and they and I am sure they will grow up with your support though my husband abandoned us. You really mean a lot to us for such support and we are so thankful and pray that God to reward you a thousand times!

I bought three goats however two died, I also bought a bicycle which I use to do for me some business of buying and selling bananas. Other things we bought include food, clothes, utensils and other things like mattresses.
We cultivated cassava, maize and beans. If you were not sponsoring us we would not have managed because we had to hire land, buy some seedlings and pay for labor in clearing the fields where we cultivated. I want to start on building a toilet because our toilet is now old but we have already started digging the pit latrine whereby we are left with building it and we hope to do it soon.
I also want to tell you that this second year is for doing business and that’s why I am struggling hard to make sure I put some thing in place and I will concentrate on mixed farming. We shall keep on buying other things with time and in the next letter we shall be able to give you the update on our progress but as per now I beg you to finish our message from here!

May God bless you!

Family Update: BAGUME CHRISTINE #107002

It’s our pleasure to write to you as we send to you our greetings and to thank you for the support we get from you every month! It has done many things for us and our lives will never be the same again! We thank you so much for that!
We are doing well right here except that we have been with some cough but we got treatment and we are now okay!

My children are now studying since it is time for schooling and they are doing well at school, they also have the school materials like books, school uniform and others. If you were not the one I would not have managed to keep them at school up to this time.
Lydia is now 12 years and she is in primary four now, Yosam is now 10years old and in primary three, Brenda is now eight years old and in primary two whereas Scovia is in primary one and she is now six years old. John who is the last-born has now turned four years old and he is in nursery school but he hasn’t got serious because he is still young in mind. We also bought clothes for all of us and we now have what to put on. We are happy to tell you that we no longer have feeding problems like ago. We buy food now and we are able to feed ourselves from our own fields now like this season we are going to cultivate maize, beans, sweet potatoes and maize. We have been with some harvests for the last season.

I have achieved many things out of the sponsorship and I am so grateful for that! The following are the achievements; like I told you last time I bought a piece of land and I am trying to develop it. I want to embark on building our own house. So far I have bought five iron sheets, I have also bought some poles for building however they are not enough but will keep on buying others slowly by slowly. I also bought two goats and lucky enough one produced.
I want to work hard such that I can be able to build our own house and even expand and settle our livestock whereby we can make it our business and a way of earning a living since we are in the village.
We hope to achieve all the above because we have already put some things in place we just need some time ahead because putting up a structure like a house is not some thing easy! We shall keep on updating you on any progress and we shall keep praying for you in every aspect such you can even get more good jobs to live a happy life.

We wish you God’s blessings!