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!

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

Family Update: ODAKA BASIMESI #106015

We are so happy for this great chance to send you greetings and thanks for the great help to my family.

We were completely without any thing before the help but now we have things like mattresses, clothes, shoes, mosquito nets and food, we appreciate your assistance.

 

 

My general health is not good, I have general body weakness, and the eyes do not see properly, the rest of my people are good health wise.

 

We grow crops like sorghum, maize and cassava but a strange disease that has affected the tuber has affected it, it has made as to worry.

The soils have started loosing fertility that is because the fields for cultivation are not enough for us, with the sponsorship we receive we shall be able to solve the problem, God is praised for that.

 

The sponsorship has helped us a lot of things for example the mattresses, goats, mosquito nets, blankets and food can be got, God is good.

 

Children are studying well in school; AJWANGI she is in primary four, NANDREA she is in primary three, BWIRE is in primary five, OKUNGA he is primary five, WEJULI he is primary one, ANYANGO she is in nursery school. There are three boys and three girls.

It used be to so hard for us to get uniform and other school materials for this children, now with sponsorship we are able to get them easily, we thank you and also pray for you.

 

The poor house we hard has been renovated the kitchen is also at home now, we are happy for that assistance.

 

We are praying that the mercy of God be upon you, be blessed, best wishes from all the family members, merry Christmas a happy new year.

 

With grate love from ODAAKA Besimesi.

 ODAKA BASIMESI

Family Update: Nyamirere Joy #105099

THE FAMILY STANDING IN FRONT OF THEIR SWEET POTATOES PLANTATION.

 

 

Happiness and joy are beyond imagination for getting such an opportunity to send my warm greetings to you and your family. I hope you are well and God is taking good care of you. I want to thank you very much for the support you are sending to me since January. Your heart is so kind and God will reward you well. You are getting us out of the extreme poverty and we have now started living like any other person in the community though we still live in a ram shackled house we hope for the better.

 

You can’t imagine that hunger was going to kill me first before my grand children, it was because of hunger that I used to walk with a stick but now after having bought enough food and ate for one month I am glad to tell you that I no longer use the stick when walking. I no longer bend these days I walk and stand upright now. My children have started looking well and no longer malnourished they are changing and putting on some weight though they still sleep badly. On Saturday 8^th march 2008, Esta fell in the wale where we fetch water and she was nearly drowning but thank God she was rescued by one of the locals called Emanuel who had gone too fetch water too. She had swallowed a number of liters of water, he made alarm and people around the village came, placed her stomach hard and she vomited it, we later took her to the clinic in Kamwenge and she’s now okay.

We grew some food crops like sweet potatoes, cassava, beans and maize and soon we shall be harvesting the sweet potatoes.

 

From the money we have been getting, we bought clothes and school uniforms for the children and we look good in our clothes. We bought food and these days we eat at least two meals daily. I got sick for 2 weeks and paid for the drugs that I got from the clinic, I also paid the money for medication of Esta who had fell in the wale while collecting some water. We bought a Jerican for fetching water, 3 plates and 3 cups. I also paid for exercise books, pens and some school fees for my grand children.

 

We now plan to rehabilitate our house which might collapse at any time or catch fire because there are many wild fires set by cattle keepers who want fresh grass for grazing their cows, we want to construct a toilet and buy domestic animals to rear them. We also need blankets, mattresses, mosquito nets and shoes.

 

We thank you very much for your prayers and the financial support we have been getting from you. May the Lord continue to bless you forever.

Yours faithfully,

 

Nyamirere Joy