Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Think Humanity-Acholi Women partner to raise money for refugees
Think Humanity has partnered with a group of women from Uganda that live in the Acholi Quarter Camp for Internally Displaced Persons. Parents of night commuter children in Gulu, known in the USA as the “Invisible Children," are making beads to help earn family income and sustain a community financed food-aid program for their children. We purchase the jewelry from them and they benefit, but then we sell in the USA at a reasonable profit. 100% of the money then goes back to help with Think Humanity projects. It will then benefit those refugees displaced from war-affected countries living in Uganda in refugee settlement camps.We not only are help to build a small economy in Uganda, but at the same time help our own self-sustainable projects in refugee camps
Saturday, May 23, 2009
The COBURWAS Club Orphanage - Think Humanity project for orphans and refugees in Kyangwali Settlement Camp
February 18, 2007, Congolese refugee Wereje Benson returned to Kyangwali from a church conference. He emailed me and told me that he wanted to build an orphanage where children could go to be loved, safe and get an education. The dream began. I visited the camp in August 2007 for my first time. I stood on the piece of land that had been donated by the UNHCR commandant. Only ant hills and bush were to be seen, but by December 2007 the building began. We received donations from Think Humanity supporters. In June 2008 I visited the camp and they were finishing the cement floor, although a lot of work still needed to be completed. We needed another $6,500 in donations. We received a grant from Global Healing in August 2008. The latrine, ceiling, foundation and livestock shed were finished by February 2009. In this picture are children that attend the COBURWAS Club Kindergarten. We now have 23 orphans and 43 students total. Pictured on the left is Lucy Zaabu, teacher at CCO.
Think Humanity helping refugees in Kyangwali
In January 2009 the Think Humanity project manager, Emmanuel Nsabimana, Wereje Benson, Think Humanity program manager and other volunteers demontrated how to use an insecticide-treated long-lasting bed net. A mother and her child sit inside for the demonstration. This picture was taken at the COBURWAS Club Orphanage that was built with funding from Think Humanity donors, Global Healing and volunteers with the COBURWAS Club in Kyangwali. www.ThinkHumanity.org
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