Shoes for Sango Bay

Jubiiii - Today was the day when Emeli, Kathrine and Ida could drive out to Sango Bay with a truck full of shoes for the residents of Sango Bay. Our volunteers have taken the initiative to raise funds for this project, so it was a great success for them that they now managed to get the shoes. The day was spent organizing the distribution of shoes, which starts tomorrow.

Lovely worship

It started to rain just as the service was to start, so we were not so many, but it was clearly proven, that you can easily have a festive worship even though the church is not full! We had a visit from a missionary from Kampala, who is a musician, so naturally performed with some of his songs :-) Carsten continued the service with a wonderful sermon in which he clearly stated one thing: do as chickens for Jesus and hurry to run home to him when you encounter problems you can not really manage!

Baby Home and 50 years birthday party

Ruth visited the baby home in the morning with a friend, Hellen, who is the manager of a project near Masaka. Mama Nalongo (means mom of twins) arrived while we were there with baby Kato. We have offered her that she can stay at the baby home for a period with her baby, so we can help her get Kato stabilized.

Delicious Marvin - he still needs a sponsor

Hellen from The Tekera project together with Eve

Mercy enjoying a swing

Mama Rose loves to have fun with the kids

Mama Rose holds Kato, while his mother looks on in the background

Mama Nalongo and Kato

Ida holding baby Jacob

In the afternoon the Jespersen's went to a 50th birthday party with our Greek friends, so it was a pleasant afternoon / evening with a lot of wonderful Greeks and Americans.

Carsten had fun with balloons, children and seniors

The center of the party (birthday boy) stands at the door. Congratulations to Haris!

Another new baby boy at home

Again today authorities asked us to take care of a little boy. This boy is one and a half years old. Both his young mother and himself are affected by HIV. His young mother is an orphan and has no one to help her to take care of her son, Collin. She has been offered training through a program for HIV-infected, she can only follow this course if she has others to care for her son, so we've agreed to help her and her son. Hopefully it can help to provide both him and his mother a brighter future.

Agnes with Collin and his young mother

Emeli and Kathrine was at the baby home to play with the kids

Fred having fun!

One of Mutyabas brothers. They have both settled in well at the baby home and start school next week. It is the first time that the boys of 7 and 9 years are allowed to go to school

Collin - he needs a sponsors!

Collin was not entirely comfortable with the situation, he was not used to white people and he seemed ill

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Burial of baby Waswa

Since baby Waswa died in the hopsital last night, Ida and Ruth went out to the hospital to pick up his mother, who was going home to bury her son. She was also discharged with the second baby, Kato, who is doing reasonably well. We think, however, that it was premature to discharge him as he is also very malnourished compared to the fact that he is almost 5 months old and weighs about 3 kg, so we decided to continue to help the mother and let her stay at the baby home and a period with her ​​little baby. It gives us a better opportunity to check Kato's weight as well as to guide the mother, who is obviously is very young and naive. But first she had to go home for the burial. Emeli and Kathrine spent the day at the office, where they helped sort out a few movies for sponsors and help Kezia to fix a lot of things in the mobile clinic. Gavin was out on some schools with online gifts.

A few bottles of cola is a delicious luxury gift

New school uniform for Nante, she is happy at the technical school

/RJ

Twins, trafic accident, etc.

Brenda, Ruth and Melisa drove to the hospital to visit the twins at the Department of Malnourished Children. We had hoped to see an improvement in Waswa's condition, but when we saw the little baby his condition had actually worsened. He had not gained any weight, he still showed no interest in eating, the wounds on his chest was worse, and he had a very dry mouth and his tongue was covered with wounds and lacerations.

The very small and fragile Waswa was clearly not well

Kato was significantly better

Ruth gives mama Nalongo clothes and diapers for babies that are donated from Denmark

We were afraid that he might not survive. His blood count was as low as 0.3 so it was probably a miracle that he was still alive. Late at night it happened as we had feared, Waswa did not manage to survive - he died.

Waswa trying to drink milk, but he was still not very interested in getting food

During the visit to the Department of Malnourished Children we handed out clothes mainly from "Ej Sikke Lej" to all the children. The mothers were very happy and we were happy that we could bring some joy to a rather sad life. The families who have children hospitalized in this department shows a clear tendency, that they simply do not have enough food for their children.

Some of the malnourished children in the clothes from "Ej Sikke Lej"

This boy got a sweater from the knitting club in Ullerød

We found out that this sweet girl, Joan, have lived in this department for 8 months and it serves as her home, since she is an orphan and the nurses have chosen to keep her there. We felt sorry for the girl, because it is not a proper home and because she is exposed to the many diseases in this department. We have asked the authorities to investigate whether she should be placed in an orphanage or go into foster care rather than stay in a hospital

When Mama Harriet was returning to work after her lunch break, she was involved in a traffic accident. Two boda-boda's (mopeds / motorcycles) clashed and Mama Harriet fell to the ground and got some scratches on her body. She was straight away taken to the emergency room and was subsequently admitted to the hospital for observation.

In the afternoon Brenda, Kezia and Ruth took a bunch of the boys from the baby home to hospital for investigation of various diseases. Although it was a little boring trip, the boys enjoyed the "excursion" anyway.

Godfrey, Mutyaba and Edison - three brothers who were recently reunited

The boys had fun trying to take pictures

Happy Nicholas

The boys have fun while waiting

Gavin drove to White Angel School, where he also had some clothes for the children at the orphanage, we had expected that Mutyabas brothers were larger than they were ... you do not expect a 9 year old and a 7-year-old to fit into size 4 years! So all in all .... a busy day in Uganda Child Care!

/RJ

New clothes and cozy fire at the baby home

Today was a public holiday in Uganda - Martyrs Day. On this day we see many pilgrims walk the walk to Namagongo on the outskirts of Kampala, where they commemorate martyrs.

Ruth came home from a short trip to Denmark, where she had had a few days with our boys on Christ's Ascension day (Danish public holiday). Brussels Airlines had donated two extra pieces of luggage on the trip, so there was plenty of room to carry clothes for donations. Ruth drove to the baby home to give some clothes to the kids - and to meet the new kids.

The three new big boys: Edison, Marvin and Gideon got some new clothes, because they really needed it. Scary that two of the boys are 7 and 9 years, but fit clothing in sizes 4 years!

New fine knit sweaters from Ullerød church knitting club

Several of the children from the baby home got some new clothes - to dress the kids nicely goes a long way in giving them back their dignity

School bags for some of the children. These are small bags, but as they do not have textbooks, there only has to be room for some exercise books and pencils

The baby home also had a visit from two Danish child care workers, who had traveled to Uganda as part of a cultural project. They made bonfires with the children, which the children enjoyed very much.

Lighting the fire

It was drizzling, but the kids enjoyed the activity anyway

Children fried bananas in the fire

Namenam :-)

The kids loved the delicious fire-baked bananas

William at his best

/RJ