Physical Health Uganda Project #13168

Build a roof over 68 HIV orphans to call it home.

by Mama Africa The Voice Uganda

Build a roof over 68 HIV orphans to call it home.

Project Report | May 5, 2015
Amazing accomplishments of land compaign

By Tadeous Kayanja | Farm Project Leader

Garden start

Dear Mama Africa Givers,

A busy summer has come and gone for our various friends coming and working in the field in Kalule luwero district Uganda. Thank you for your continuous support of the Land contribution we have it now and ready to start the construction of the children’s home! as Phase 1

Through your support, various projects will enable us to help benefit the livelihoods of the 68 children have a place to call home.
Thank you so much for your continued support for the Raise a roof Project! Your generous contributions have been crucial to help us rebuild after the long Land campaign and prepare for the upcoming gardening and construction season.

Mama Africa the voice Uganda team has been hard at work clearing the land for building the children’s home and the garden. we have already completed the land clearing and we have over 140 seedlings out 0f 370 for passion fruit, which will give children and local Farmers, who are still in needing to generate income,

We are still praying for the team of Volunteers who are planning to visit us this summer 2015 and help at the project with building a fence around the property, a toilet and the Water project at the property as these all are required.

None of this would have been possible without you! Thank you for your continued support for the land contribution.
Thanks again for your continued support for those impacted by Mama Africa the Voice Uganda. Your generous donations contribute to the amazing work that is being done by many of our friends!.

Project Land

First Banana tree looking great

Maize Planting

Shifah in the garden hard working

Lilian planting Maize

Esther part of the team in the garden

toilet at the property

Abdul and crew

Shanel

Links:

Official webiste

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Jan 28, 2015
YOU Made 2014 Wonderful! and worth a living.

By Gamba | project cordinator

Books and geting ready for school

YOUR support this year has given all of your 68 children exactly what they need to reach their dreams.

YOU have given them free education, meals, healthcare, shoes, school uniforms, and school supplies. These are things that we may take for granted, but without these vital resources, YOUR students couldn't go to school.

Over this past year, YOU have helped Mama Africa the Voice Uganda reach more children than ever before. YOU are to build a primary vocational school this year 2015.

If YOU had not stepped in, they would be trapped in poverty and even their children would be more likely to stay in poverty. They would be more vulnerable to predators and HIV/AIDS. YOUR girls would be more likely to marry or have children before they're ready.

YOUR generosity has changed the course of their lives. Because of YOU, they will be leaders in their communities when they grow up. They will be doctors, lawyers, politicians, business leaders...the possibilities are endless!

I hope YOU feel the profound magnitude of the gift YOU have given this year.

The below excerpt comes from a letter written by Hadijah written to Mama Africa the Voice Uganda Board of Directors and the directors. Hadijjah is one child that Mama Africa (thanks to you, our donors) has supported in school. In her humbling letter, Hadijjah thanks Mama Africa for their support and she has permitted us to share her letter with you. We have left the letter in Hadijjah's words.

"I come from a single family of eight where my mum is the bread winner of the family. My dad died long ago that even I can’t remember his face how it looks. Being a single mum [my mom] - to educate those children was very difficult so she distributed others [children] to her sisters who were available. They [my siblings] were made house help where they don’t attend school and this made them not to be interested in school. The three of them, who were older, got married earlier because of this -- because they don’t have any other option so they decided getting married is what can help from the suffering they were getting from my mum's sisters.

My mum saw this was not helping so she took us in to live with her. The only business she could do was to sell Malwa {local alcohol and marijuana}. She did this her whole life until she was found by the government and she had to serve her sentence in jail after she did she came back and got back into alcohol.

This was the most difficult moment in my life as I had no dad, no relatives, nothing at all that gave me the hope to live. But one thing I kept despite the fact I am coming from a Muslim family on saying and telling my sisters is that we are serving a living God. He will not let us down and that our tears will not go to waste. The place we were living was hell: it was near a pub where you could find beer flowing inside our house. We couldn’t do anything because we didn’t have any option to live in a better place. My Mum made a deal to exchange me for a debt of 1 Million shillings she had with a man on the village which I hated the most.

When I was in primary school, I kept telling Apio and Akello how I will go to school and college. I didn’t know where the money will come from, but what I knew was that I would fulfill my dream no matter what it would take.

Luckily the Lord sent Mama Africa the Voice Uganda {a nonprofit Organization] who came to my rescue. I thank God for that. When my mother was in jail and we stayed alone in that dirty house -- no relatives, no friends, no mother, no dad -- our mother and protector was God. On behalf of my family, I take this opportunity to say we are really grateful for everything Mama Africa the voice Uganda has done for us. This is where Mama Africa the voice Uganda took over. They visited us at our place, advised us and gave us food that could last us for a whole week. We were happy then so that we didn’t have to depend on only one meal that was in school.

When I was taken in by Mama Africa the voice Uganda, I knew I couldn’t be the same again. In terms of education, I could live the life I had longed for which is to have education, this is the best gift someone has ever given to me, but I couldn’t do it without the advices of Aunt Winnie the director of Mama Africa and the Board Members with the sponsors you have shown me how great you are. You have really helped me a lot. You have shown me that life does not end where somebody is raised and that even that little fly has dreams and can really work hard to fulfill them.

The past of someone does not determine the future of somebody. I believe that now and forever. I was almost giving up because I couldn’t bare the pressure anymore, but once told me that whatever you want in life will not come from a silver platter -- one needs to struggle in order to get it. And a humble person does not get tired until she gets whatever she wants. This means that my life will not end in Kosovo slums and other rural areas of Uganda. I know I am going places with the little knowledge I have I can help someone who has given up in life and really needs help or encouragement that he or she can’t get it. I can put a smile on somebody.

Given the opportunity, I would really love to give back to the society, to put some smiles on the children’s faces like they put on me. Thank you big time and love you all."

winnie and Dorcus

Patricia and a sweet

Just a sweet

Books time

gloria

Faith

faith 2

Links:

Facebook.

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Jan 29, 2015
Cool Stuff We are Doing!

By Esther | Administrator

Jaja Byakulya Kubula

This past year 2014 YOU bought land for the children's Oprhange Home,Vocatyion Primary School and a reacreation centrel!

The work was completed on the 18^th of october 2014. You are a warrior in the battle against poverty.

Your weapon?

47 pencils in the hands of 47 little girls and boys .

Why? Because you know the only way to successfully combat poverty is with an education.

You are one smart cookie. Unfortunately, getting an education in Uganda is not free. If a child cannot afford a uniform, tuition or school supplies, classroom doors are often slammed in their face. And if a child is female, she has even less opportunities available to her simply because she is a girl. and most of them drop out of school before their completion of primary seven.

You are stepping in and empowering a community of girls and boys with a vocational carriculum.

You are equipping them with education ,pencils that they will raise to fight poverty. Thank you! each child will hav vocational skills and a pencil in their hand because of YOU.

Each child will be healthy because you provide them all with access to clean water and plates heavy with nutritious food daily. Each girl will be healthy because you also provide them with support when they transition from small girls to young women and Men.

You are winning this battle and poverty is running scared.

each brick costs $1 to purchase a brick in Uganda,0.02 for a pencil yet this small expense can prevent girls from going to school every day.

Are you going to let poverty stand in your way?

We didn’t think so.

Your mother would be SO proud.

You are changing the world for a young girl named Dorcus.

Much Love..

Jaja 2

Land and winnie

Land cleared

Dorcus 1

Dorcus and her x-mass gift

Books time

i will be a teacher

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