Uganda Trip
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Updates:
- New classrooms have been built in our village that will enable 120 pupils to have better access to education. In the coming days the village leaders will work to acquire new desks and benches to help facilitate this new learning environment.
- Training with local Kyalulangira church leaders is underway through a training organization called CHANNELS OF HOPE. This agency and training deals specifically with helping local church pastors and leaders to be sensitized to some of the social stigmas that are attached to those suffering from HIV/Aids while giving theological underpinning for more biblical approaches to ministering to and serving those who are suffering from this disease.
- Training is underway with families and individuals within the Kyalulangira village regarding sustainability with the community for those who receive gifts from the World Vision/Heights sponsorship program. Specific strategies are being taught to those who are receiving support from our partnership that will help these families know how to leverage these gifts in ways that will maximize their effect for the community at large.
Prayer Requests:
- For a sense of unity and brotherhood within the community
- For wisdom for the Area Development Program (ADP) leadership with the community as it pertains to planning for agricultural advice
- For preparation for the construction of the new health care unit that The Heights helped to fund and resource for the Kyalulangira community.
ENGAGE Uganda
“It was hard to imagine the actual impact my sponsorship for Ritah would have, but after meeting her and visiting her village, there’s no way I’d consider not sponsoring a child. It’s amazing how a little goes a long way." - Miles Melbert
Why Uganda? This global Pioneer Place of Engagement offers The Heights family the chance to engage with IMB-appointed missionaries to Uganda and Heights members, Eric and Krisann Pease, plus World Vision International to commit to long-term transformation of an entire village in Uganda. Such transformation will include facilitating clean water, healthcare emphasizing needs around HIV/AIDS, sourcing food, proper Ugandan education, economic development, and ultimately transformation in the spiritual eternity of these Ugandan people.
What are the objectives?
- To build trust within specific Ugandan communities.
- Bring community leaders together to plan for the future.
- Provide clean water which can cut child death rates in half.
- Provide and teach proper health and hygiene. When health and hygiene resources are added to clean water interventions, a community is able to reduce its child deaths by another 50%.
- Secure regular and sustainable sources of food.
- Provide an opportunity so that every child in specific Ugandan communities can receive an education.
- Provide initiatives for economic development.
- Unify the Church and spiritual leaders.
What is the strategy?
- Partner with World Vision. World Vision has provided hope and assistance to approximately 100 million people in nearly 100 countries. For more than 50 years they have joined with local people to find lasting ways to improve the lives of impoverished children and their families.
- Work with a specific adopted community and World Vision Staff to come up with a comprehensive priority plan for community transformation.
- Child Sponsorship: Provide an opportunity for Height’s people to sponsor ($35.00 per month) a child in a specific adopted community. This allows relationships to be built and ensures the well being of that child.
- Congregational Trip: This trip is designed to build relationships and provide an opportunity to meet your sponsored child in the specific adopted community.
- Have consistent contact with the World Vision staff that live in our specific adopted community as we work toward the above objectives.
Occupations, skills projected for this Place of Engagement: Relationship builders, persons who have sponsored children in our village of Kyalulangira, painters, plumbers, carpenters, roofers, teachers, educational administrators, children’s workers, life skills trainers, social workers, community planners, persons with compassion, good organizers.
