As I
mentioned in my previous post, this blog’s main purpose (for now) is to keep family and friends
updated with our mission’s trip to Uganda.
For those of you who don’t know, Brett has been to Uganda before about 4
years ago. He spent the summer there
working with an organization called Empower A Child (EAC). This is the same group we will be working
with while we’re there. I thought it
might be nice to have Brett share with everyone a little bit about EAC….
Hey
everybody. So EAC is a non-government
organization (NGO) based out of Kampala, Uganda. They have also recently expanded and now have
an office in Nairobi, Kenya as well. It
was started by my friend Wilson Kabeera who now serves as the executive director. Wilson and many of the Ugandan volunteers
there were sponsored as children by organizations such as Compassion
International. This experience really
inspired them to want to give to others just as they were given. One of EAC’s primary goals is to provide
child sponsorships to the children of Uganda in order to pay for school fees
and other basic necessities such as food and clothing. They also receive counseling and mentoring as
well as being involved in a monthly bible study. EAC doesn’t discriminate based upon religion
so it’s a great way to provide both physical and spiritual needs.
EAC also has
several ‘projects’ which they visit on a weekly basis. This includes orphanages, a home for
abandoned babies, a children’s’ hospital, a juvenile detention facility, and
several local schools. Each week the
team puts on programs for these groups which usually include skits,
games/crafts, worship, and a biblical lesson.
It’s a neat opportunity for the volunteers to really connect by seeing
the same kids every week and make an impact for Christ.
EAC’s most
recent endeavor is to build a training center in the nearby village of
Zirobwe. Their hope is to build a center
which will have an educational center, dormitories and other amenities to serve
street kids who otherwise cannot afford school.
This will provide them with some basic trade skills to try and make a
living. So far EAC has purchased land
for this effort and paid for a well to be dug and a church be constructed. They are continuing to make connections in
this village and raise money for the rest of the training center to be built.
So that’s
EAC in a nutshell. From experience I can
say that the Ugandan volunteers there really sacrifice a lot for what they do
and are driven by the desire to see the Gospel be proclaimed to all that will
hear. Even in the time since I’ve been
there I’ve seen God richly bless the organization and I can’t wait to see what
He has in store for them in the future!
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