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Update.... Alyssa still supports the orphanage in Uganda.

This Pic is taken in Uganda Africa. The river is the Nile River and this is our daughter, Alyssa.

  In Uganda the children have to pay to go to school.  This orphanage is poor and cannot afford to school the children. For $75 a year you could send a child to school. 

If you would like to support in this orphanage or one of the children in the women's group Grass Roots in Uganda please email her. 

   or Click Here to donate to her.  This button is for $10.00. You just have to fill in the quantity for total amount.

.     sarah

 


We have a tax deductible ministry so all donations are tax deductible.  All donations  will go to the orphanage in Uganda to buy Curriculum for the children and Aids Testing for them. The orphanage is very poor and the children are unable to go to school so the orphanage home schools them.

 

     

Alyssa & Kids

Orphanage

www.Grassrootsuganda.com  Teaching the Ladies English

Making Beads @ www.grassrootsuganda.com

                                                                               
           Now that we've figured out how to wear our backpacks...
 

 

        This is pretty obvious..Jane, me, Nick,

       and    Larry bakin at the equator                                 Elephant LOL

    

On Safari                                                                                                           Hippo mama and baby
                             

   

                      Uganda's Children                                   In Egypt  umm? Ali baba is my camel (hes the best)
 

        

                 On the River Nile in a Canoe                            Me and a few ladies of www.GrassrootsUganda.com

 

       Me on a boat in Unguja, off the coast of Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean               a close up of me and my boyfriend (sorry mom he was just soooo cute

                                                                                                                                            I couldn't say no) :) we are in love
 

   

          Rose..... part of the www.grassrootsuganda.com  Group                    Ali baba is hungry!! I totally want this printed out and put on the wall. haha
 

Getting ready to go to the islands on Lake Victoria for HIV testing

 

 

                Pia and I at Murchison Falls                                                                             me with ali baba and mickey (pyramids in back)
 

  

          My Room                                                   On Safari.....was charged by a bull elephant while on top of this van

       

      Sunset on the Nile                                                      I am in a Canoe on the Nile 

  

            Volunteers in Uganda                                       The porch where I stay w view of Nile                   

  

 

            Mountain view on the way to the Nile                            Zanzibar, Tanzania   Sunset..                         

                                                                                                                                                                                

    

              Masai Man on the Beach                                                                                     East Coast, Zanzibar

   

                                                 The ROOFTOP of AFRICA, Mount Kilimanjaro

     

                                                 ME! and some cool kids.                                                        

 

             Cairo at Night            View from my Room

To Donate

 . All donations are tax deductible and will be put in Alyssa's account and she will give the donations to the orphanage in Uganda. 

These Pics are taken in Uganda Africa. The river is the Nile River and this is our daughter, Alyssa.

             She is on a missions tour there.

 I was invited on a road trip to Kibale and Lake Byoonay which is located on the boarder of Rwanda and Uganda.

But getting there is a whole story on its own…it's a very very very long drive on a very dangerous road. We saw several wrecks, mostly involving lorries, but it was creepy.

Part of our reason for going was to visit a children's orphanage in Masaka ran by a young Ugandan woman called Jennifer. Masaka has been hit particularly hard by HIV, as it was the first place in all of Uganda to have recorded cases of HIV in 1982, now the majority of the area is HIV+. This orphanage houses around 70 children and it was one of the most heart wrenching experiences I have had in Uganda. When we pulled up to the orphanage all 70 children were standing out on the roadside clapping and greeting us with hugs, it was the most beautiful thing ever. 5 mzungus (white people) and 70 kids running all around us giving us hugs and high fives!! It was AWESOME! Jennifer took us all around the small orphanage and showed us what she's been doing and shared with us some dreams she has for the place. Then the kids went for lunch. Lunch is the only meal that the kids get all day, and its this crap porridge that I wouldn't want my dog to eat. That is harsh but it is true. It took everything for me not to cry right then and there, seeing the state of some of these kids truly hurts. I looked at the other volunteers and seeing the look on their faces told me that they felt the same sick feeling that was feeling. Later we all openly stated that we all wanted to cry being there, and leaving there.

 

But there is hope for these kids, and again it is because of support that they will get now that they have had volunteers come. Four of us started a chicken project so now they can start out with 20 chickens that are all their own, so they can eat eggs, and later they can eat the chickens when they start to grow in numbers. So soon the kids will be introduced to better food. And currently I am trying to raise about 400 dollars so I can get school curriculum for the kids, because the orphanage can't afford to send them to school so Jennifer does all the education but doesn't have the materials for it. This isn't an infomercial BUT if you are interested in helping in a very tangible way talk to me and we can do something, getting these kids educated is an awesome thing, which they can REALLY use.

 

School fees are the BIGGEST financial problem in all of Uganda, but yet while the government KNOWS this, they won't allow any FREE education systems to be put up. All children have to pay something they say. And after the pay they still aren't guaranteed a full time teacher. The teachers show up when it's good for them. Its crap. But Lets do the math…14 million children under the age of 14. IF and the prices differ, but if each child has to pay 75USD a year for education and around 8 million children go to school and pay these fees…how much is the government making off their poor civilians? 

    8,000,000

    *          75

600,000,000 I could be wrong; you guys know how bad at math I am… And that is  American Dollars…also the government would rather spend somewhere around 21,900,000 on new cars for their MPs so they can drive than to spend WAAAAY less than half of that fixing the roads around Uganda. Think of how many lives daily would be saved if the roads in Uganda weren't so bad. I wonder where all this money comes from…Some kids pay up to 150 a year…

 

The Ladies that I was working with the past month and a half are all very amazing, and they gave me a HUGE going away party, to say thank you to me, and to my director Leslie, and to the other volunteers. They did traditional Acholi dancing and drumming, and dancing, and fed us sooo much food!! I could never have imagined that I would be so loved here, and that I would feel the same about these people. But it was really neat to be a part of this, and to impact their lives. Little do they know how much they impacted my life and my views. I am so grateful. I could not have asked for a better experience than my last three months, or a better introduction to Africa.

 
FOR PICTURES     click on photos  to donate click on flashing dvd's button. All donations are tax deductible and will be put in Alyssa's account and she will give the donations to the orphanage in Uganda. 
 
I will be honest; when I left the states I didn't have any clue that I would fall so head over heels for Africa – Uganda in particular. But this is the truth and it's the only appropriate way to describe how I feel about Uganda. Yeah, I knew I would like it, but I didn't know that I would become completely enchanted by it. I had no idea when I left that I would want to stay in Uganda any longer than three months, I thought I was going to be begging for home! I've heard people describe this feeling as the African Fever, you get it once and you never, for the rest of your life get cured. The beginning of the world started here, there is so much history, so many different cultures, so many climatic extremes, and so many different landscapes that your mind is continuously blown by Africa. To everyone that knows me, you all know that I want to see every corner of God's Earth, mainly because I have an extreme case of wanderlust and a true love of culture and languages and a craving to find the next level of something so much more. But being in Uganda my wanderlust was almost cured, at least it was for the last three months, I found a place and people that I am completely satisfied with. There were times here in which I cried, felt anger, and hurt, and generally sick of humanity, but then I looked up and outside my personal emotions and saw more love than anything else and with that realization I came to find peace in completely crap moments.

I'm not going to say I saw the worst of the worst because I didn't. There are people all over this earth suffering in ways words can never justify, and pictures can never bring into our reality but here in Uganda/Africa one does see terrible disgusting things that hurt your heart and make you feel utterly helpless. As I've said before telling someone that you know has several children and no husband, and no stable income that they are HIV positive is probably the worst feeling in the world, but to know that (And I'm going to sound very humble right now…) because of people like me (volunteers...etc…) because of people like me, that woman, and those children are going to be better off than they would be without us. Yeah that woman may die early, but we help her live a healthier, longer life, we can empower her to educate to help others worse off with her story, and we give her the knowledge that she will need to set up a better life for her children. And because a volunteer personally becomes interested in that families lives we are going to work hard to make sure those kids are fed, and clothed, and sent to school even if we can't do it all right away its each step that makes it better in the long run. And it's people like her that make flying around the world to a foreign land to find your place to make a small difference in this world completely and totally worth it.

 

Thank You

 

 

 

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