CHILDREN WENT HOME FOR CHRISTMAS

For the week of 6th-12th December, we took children to their relatives in their villages where they will spend the Christmas time. Children were happy to see their relatives and on the other hand they were going back to the hard life they had left.
As we dropped them to their different homes, some conditions in different homes were not impressing and one would feel like coming back with the child but they were excited to be home.
One example is the family of Batema and Talibita, they have a mud and wattle house that seemed to be falling off soon. It is not only these, their are many more in such conditions.

The children will return on 13th January 2011. We are praying for God's protection upon them.


From left is Batema's brother, their neighbour' s child, Talibita, Alex (Volunteer) and last is Batema in front of their house.

CHILDREN ARE DOING HANDCRAFT

The CMU family has now put emphasis on hand craft and gardening during the holidays. This is done in a way of helping these children get life skills besides what they study from schools. Our children welcomed the idea and they fully partcipated in the activities, from the youngest to the oldest child. Each one finds what he/ she is interested in and we train them how to do it. Some of them have learnt and they can do them very well while others are still learning. The older children were able to do good things like necklaces, bungles, baskets and other artwork. This season we have also been able to get some good harvests from the gardens in which our children participated. Apart from gaining life skills, these activities keep our children busy since we have a big number of teenagers. The activities will occupy their minds and they will not be idol to think about doing evil things. We believe that something good will come out of this.

Camp Fire after the Christmas Party

Dancing

CHILDREN ENJOYED THEIR CHRISTMAS PARTY

On Sunday 5th of December 2010, all our children enjoyed their christmas party, that takes place every year in December. Children enjoyed a delicious meal with different food types, drinks and fruit salads. The mission children's choir presented different songs and dances including the cultural dances. The children were happy and the day was extended to 10:00pm with a camp fire and dances. They also enjoyed the sweets all the day through up to late evening. Thanks to Mama Rosemarie for the gifts and to our sponsors. Because of your support the kids were able to enjoy this special day. May God bless the work of your hands!

Mama Rosemarie distributing sweets

Kids performing a dance

Cultural Dance

Christmas Tree Ugandan Style

Christmas Meal

Hospital and Electricity Bills

Towards the end of each year, CMU gets bills from the hospital that treats our children and team members and electricity bills for the mission. This year the bills are somehow high and we are required to still clear more than two million Uganda Shilling to International Hospital Kampala as soon as possible. The bill increased because we got more serious health problems than before. Apart from challenges of malaria, ulcers and amoebas that were treated easily, Lugolobi got a hernia surgery, Immaculate got a haemorrhoids surgery, Ian had an outgrowth in a wound on his foot, which was also operated. Posian also got a problem of sweating the feet and hands all the time. He is still undergoing different tests to find where the problem is, while Lydia, who is still under different tests and treatment suddenly got anaemic and the cause is not yet comfirmed. For around one and a half months that we have been trying treatment for Lydia, it is only yesterday that she was found with severe bilharzia and amoebas and she got treatment, though the physician said that it is not the cause for anaemia. More tests are being done for that.

For all these cases, we still need more than two million UGX (about 700 Euros) to clear the hospital bill. If anyone gets interested in supporting for the better health of these children, please contact us and make a difference in one or more lives.

Apart from the hospital bills, the mission has another big bill for electricity to clear. Usually we struggle to pay the electricity bills besides all the running cost of the project. And this time we have spent alot of unexpected money due to different challenges that include, price increase on almost everything including food stuffs, transport, fuel and others.
We are kindly requesting for your support in order to cover up these two bills.

God bless you!

16 CHILDREN GOT THEIR VACCATION

16 of our children who were in candidate classes got their long holidays in November. These include Sarah, who finished her high school and she is supposed to join university. If all goes well, Sarah will be our first child to go to university. We are praying that God will enable her to pass A-Level exams and provide for her university tuition. Others include, Martin, Zuremu, Lydia and Agnes, who finished their O-Level and are joining high school next year. Salama, Alice, Daniel, Sharon, Daisy, Godfrey, Moses, Denis, Zephania, David and Posian finished their primary school level and most of them are going to join secondary school next year.
We thank God for the far he has brought our kids. God bless everyone that gives and prays for this mission.