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2nd Years sit the DIT Tailoring Examination

Wow, it's been a very eventful few days requiring much effort and prayer.

So often in Uganda things are not as well organised as we might wish. Jefferson, our Site Manager had a text message on Friday from the Directorate of Industrial Training in Kampala to go and collect the details [...]

Update from Duncan/Rosalind’s recent trip to Uganda

Robert and Martin looking very smart and proud in their new Security Guard uniforms. As we have increased the overall security on site by employing an outside agency we felt it appropriate to equip our onsite security staff with smart new uniforms. These were made by SEAMS – our Sewing [...]

Agape Project Update
Agape Project Update

Hi,

I had the wonderful opportunity to meet nine of the Agape children and their guardians today.

The children who attended the meeting are: Apiyo Jeanette, Oroma Oliva, Ocen Gerald, Ocora Eric, Ogik Emmanuel, Okello Patrick, Odong Martin and Oyugi Moses.

The purpose of the meeting was to introduce myself and get to [...]

Out In Gulu
Out In Gulu

Last year on mission I experienced the surface of Gulu, but this year I am experiencing and enjoying all that this town has to offer me. There are no car taxi’s available but there are motorbike taxi’s called ‘boda bodas’ and I’ve really enjoyed travelling on these because it allows [...]

Agape Orphan
Agape Orphan

I had the wonderful opportunity to meet nine of the Agape children and their guardians today.

The children who attended the meeting are: Apiyo Jeanette, Oroma Oliva, Ocen Gerald, Ocora Eric, Ogik Emmanuel, Okello Patrick, Odong Martin and Oyugi Moses.

The purpose of the meeting was to introduce myself and get to [...]

Unpacking & Rebuilding
Unpacking & Rebuilding

This year for the mission there has been a spiritual theme of unpacking and rebuilding. Today I was led to speak on Nehemiah 4:17-18. It details how the people of Israel rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem together as a team, each looking out for one another. This shows that as [...]

Unpacking To Be Rebuilt
Unpacking To Be Rebuilt

My third trip to Uganda has already been filled with great experiences and although I’m coming in a new capacity arriving at Entebbe airport, driving up to Gulu and seeing the staff on site makes me feel very much at home.

Even before we’d arrived we had heard about the miracles [...]

TEAMS Agape Child Support Programme

The Agape Child Support programme is a project that funds the education of children predominantly from orphaned backgrounds through sponsorship. The funds go towards school fees, uniforms, scholastic materials and medical support. The Agape programme first began back in 2001 with just [...]