House of Hope Orphanage and School

Greetings to you dear Friends. Appologies for the delay- my life is disorganized so please send me prayers and happy thoughts. Back to House of Hope, kids are doing fine busy working hard because their are in last term of year where they will do promotional exams to take them to next grades. So every one is very busy now. For P7 kids they have finished they national exams to take them to secondary level or vocational level. We had 12 kids who did exams and they are all excited to have reached this level. Thank you so much for giving them chance to be in school. This year we had 186 children in the whole school but big number are very younger ones between 3 and 9 age. Thank you for your continually support and love. With your love and support hopeless are hopeful.

For the past several years, Mrs. Carey – a Grassroots Uganda supporter and middle school teacher at Three Forks Public School - has put a penny jar out in her classroom. Over the course of the year the kids throw extra pennies into the jar and at the end of the year the pennies are added up and donated to one of our projects.

As this was Mrs. Carey’s last year of teaching before retirement, she had been crazy busy and never put out her penny jar. Awesomely, on the last day of school the kids brought a jar up to her full of pennies! The kids realized the jar was never put out and instead of talking to her about it- they just put out their own jar!!! The kids raised the money in spare pennies at their own initiative. We are extremely proud and impressed by these kid’s dedication and go-getter attitude!

To all the parents and teachers of these amazing kids- you’ve done well. With your ongoing love and support the hopeless are hopeful, and the future for this next generation is looking pretty bright.