Uganda Project Information:
The Need
In Uganda, the AIDS epidemic and other diseases have brought death to many with hardly a person unaffected by loss of friends or close relatives. Many attribute the disease with widespread homelessness of orphaned children.
One couple began helping homeless children over a decade ago, and now teams work to bring needed renovations and love to the homes and hearts of the kids.
Uganda
Uganda is well known for the terrible rule of Idi Amin who had many people killed, and destroyed the infrastructure of the country in the seventies. Since 1986 Yoweri Museveni has been in power. His administration has overseen growing stability and comparative prosperity. But life is a daily struggle, with corruption everywhere, and food and goods so expensive for the average Ugandan. But despite their hardships the local people make us so welcome and as your life touches theirs, a small piece of this world will be forever changed.
Your coming will leave a legacy of lasting relationships, hope and help with something really practical for the children of Uganda.
Kampala and Rukungiri, Uganda, East Africa
John and Alice Tumusiime were pastoring a local church in rural SW Uganda when they invited three children orphaned by Aids into their home for Christmas in 1995.
Aids has gripped East Africa, situated as it is on the transport routes across Africa. Many children lost first one parent, then the other, uncles and aunts , grandparents and older siblings to the disease, leaving thousands of orphaned children with no home and no place to go. Those three children standing on Alice and John’s doorstep were followed by more and more so that today they have 1000!