​“Gift” lives with her jjajja (grandmother) Joyce along with two of jjajja’s grandsons (3 and 4 year olds) as well as a young woman whose name is Vivian and her three month old baby Beline.  Gift passed her primary exams with high grades which means she can graduate into secondary education and be a candidate for one of the best schools.  Gift wishes to become a doctor and she excels in science and math.  Like all our children, she enjoyed her zoo experience and her smile was huge talking about swimming in a pool, seeing zebras, giraffes and monkeys.  Gift has a beautiful future for herself, but so does her jjajja and Vivian.  Joyce is our first vocational training graduate in culinary.  She currently earns money by sewing traditional tunics for men and she has someone who is making her a brick oven so she can start cooking bread to sell in different shops.  She says she “missed out on life as a youth”, and now she is asking God for health and a longer life so she can use her new skills and continue to help her family.  One of our graduates in tailoring is currently training Vivian to sew so she will have an opportunity to feed and raise her child, Beline.  It will be exciting to return in two years to see the progress of jjajja Joyce, Gift and Vivian.

In January, 2020, our Michigan team (Mary, Judy and TIna) visited business locations of our first five vocational training graduates in tailoring.  They were provided micro-finance loans after graduating, which they are now paying back into the program.  These five women are currently training the next carefully selected five, and most are also training their children to sew.  It was a highlight of our visit to see exciting changes in these women who are now respected in their communities, able to provide food for their children, better housing, as well as tuition fees for their kids.

THE FAVOR OF OUR GOD - January 13, 2020

On January 13, the Michigan mission team arrived in Uganda to join our women and children whom we serve.  We were greeted with a celebration of praise songs, dancing and a prepared music program.  Two years we prayed for God's strength and willingness to send us back to Uganda to serve.  Ivan, a graduate of our sponsorship program, is music director of KFU.  Seven years ago a Leland, Michigan student, Zoe, raised money for KFU and when asked, she expressed the wish to build a music/theatre/dance program.  The Power of One....she who planted a seed that has grown over six years resulting in an amazing program which reaches hundreds of kids who live deep in the slums of Kampala and enriches their lives and gives them hope.