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Helping moms & babies in Uganda

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Helping moms & babies in Uganda
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The Need

Of the 5.2 million children who die around the world each year, 75 per cent die in the first year of life. Babies are at risk of death due to premature birth complications, complications during childbirth, infections, pneumonia and diarrhea. But this is preventable. With training and support, moms in poverty can be empowered to raise healthy and happy babies.

Our Response

Critical care
Your support helps secure access to pre- and postnatal care, skilled birth attendants and medical intervention when necessary.

Home-based care
Mothers are visited in their homes monthly by a Survival specialist, who offers education in prenatal care and early child-rearing as well as one-on-one biblical mentoring.

Group-based learning
At these church-based activities, moms learn skills to earn an income and gain vital knowledge including basic literacy, the importance of breastfeeding and how to prevent malnutrition and disease. These groups combat isolation through a supportive community of mothers who, together, learn about the God who loves them.

Uganda Stats

Average number of children in household 5
Average age of first-time mothers 20
Births attended by skilled health personnel 59
Stunted growth from malnutrition 34

Activities

Counselling: Families received discipleship, counselling and training on building a healthy family and establishing an income-generating activity. In Rutenga, staff provided counselling sessions for families struggling with high alcohol use and domestic violence, resulting in positive change and peace in the home. Fathers were counselled to help provide for their families. Dads at the Kihunda Survival Program met regularly and were encouraged to always pray for their families.

Parenting: Moms and dads were equipped with skills to ensure children’s well-being, reduce preventable deaths, promote education and protect children. This training is expected to improve health, food security, immunization levels and overall child development within the communities. Moms learned the importance of play and enjoyed bringing their babies to the stimulation rooms at the centres to engage their babies in activities to encourage their growth and development.

Health care: Babies’ weight and height were measured regularly to check for signs of malnutrition. Moms and babies received regular medical screenings and treatment as needed. Moms also received pregnancy support. Staff and health professionals taught moms about nutrition, family planning, breastfeeding and how to make oral rehydration solutions. Moms living with HIV were encouraged to breastfeed for up to one year for safe infant feeding practices.

Spiritual nurture: Moms gathered in small groups to praise God through song, share Scripture and encourage each other. Women’s fellowship and discipleship classes have strengthened spiritual understanding and promoted forgiveness and unity. Families are experiencing safer, healthier home environments grounded in biblical principles. Moms also engaged in acts of community service.

Vocational training: Moms in the Kihunda Survival Program participated in tailoring and salon-skills training to support their economic empowerment. Some caregivers have already obtained sewing machines and are earning income by making school uniforms and children’s garments. Other moms are growing pineapple and passion fruit, and moms in the Burema Survival Program each received a piglet to rear. These livelihood opportunities are helping caregivers build financial independence and better support their families.

Home visits: Program staff visited moms at home to offer personalized, targeted support. Moms learned the warning signs to look for in their babies and how to help their children develop their motor, fine motor and cognitive skills. Moms also learned to practise good hygiene and home cleanliness to prevent illness.

Project Stats

This intervention addressed:

Full-term births 12
Illness: Respiratory-Related Illness 2
Illness: Gastrointestinal Diseases 3
Pregnancies 13
Illness: Infections 3
Illness subc: Other 23
Illness subc: Respiratory Tract Infection 3
Breastfeeding Moms 20
Malnourished Babies - Severely Underweight 23
Attended births 14
Premature births 2
Malnourished Babies - Moderately Underweight 20
Normal birth weights 13
Low birth weights 1
Counselling: Families received discipleship, counselling and training on building a healthy family and establishing an income-generating activity. In Rutenga, staff provided counselling sessions for families struggling with high alcohol use and domestic violence, resulting in positive change and peace in the home. Fathers were counselled to help provide for their families. Dads at the Kihunda Survival Program met regularly and were encouraged to always pray for their families.
Counselling: Families received discipleship, counselling and training on building a healthy family and establishing an income-generating activity. In Rutenga, staff provided counselling sessions for families struggling with high alcohol use and domestic violence, resulting in positive change and peace in the home. Fathers were counselled to help provide for their families. Dads at the Kihunda Survival Program met regularly and were encouraged to always pray for their families.
Counselling: Families received discipleship, counselling and training on building a healthy family and establishing an income-generating activity. In Rutenga, staff provided counselling sessions for families struggling with high alcohol use and domestic violence, resulting in positive change and peace in the home. Fathers were counselled to help provide for their families. Dads at the Kihunda Survival Program met regularly and were encouraged to always pray for their families.
Counselling: Families received discipleship, counselling and training on building a healthy family and establishing an income-generating activity. In Rutenga, staff provided counselling sessions for families struggling with high alcohol use and domestic violence, resulting in positive change and peace in the home. Fathers were counselled to help provide for their families. Dads at the Kihunda Survival Program met regularly and were encouraged to always pray for their families.
Parenting: Moms and dads were equipped with skills to ensure children’s well-being, reduce preventable deaths, promote education and protect children. This training is expected to improve health, food security, immunization levels and overall child development within the communities. Moms learned the importance of play and enjoyed bringing their babies to the stimulation rooms at the centres to engage their babies in activities to encourage their growth and development.
Parenting: Moms and dads were equipped with skills to ensure children’s well-being, reduce preventable deaths, promote education and protect children. This training is expected to improve health, food security, immunization levels and overall child development within the communities. Moms learned the importance of play and enjoyed bringing their babies to the stimulation rooms at the centres to engage their babies in activities to encourage their growth and development.
Parenting: Moms and dads were equipped with skills to ensure children’s well-being, reduce preventable deaths, promote education and protect children. This training is expected to improve health, food security, immunization levels and overall child development within the communities. Moms learned the importance of play and enjoyed bringing their babies to the stimulation rooms at the centres to engage their babies in activities to encourage their growth and development.
Parenting: Moms and dads were equipped with skills to ensure children’s well-being, reduce preventable deaths, promote education and protect children. This training is expected to improve health, food security, immunization levels and overall child development within the communities. Moms learned the importance of play and enjoyed bringing their babies to the stimulation rooms at the centres to engage their babies in activities to encourage their growth and development.
Parenting: Moms and dads were equipped with skills to ensure children’s well-being, reduce preventable deaths, promote education and protect children. This training is expected to improve health, food security, immunization levels and overall child development within the communities. Moms learned the importance of play and enjoyed bringing their babies to the stimulation rooms at the centres to engage their babies in activities to encourage their growth and development.
Parenting: Moms and dads were equipped with skills to ensure children’s well-being, reduce preventable deaths, promote education and protect children. This training is expected to improve health, food security, immunization levels and overall child development within the communities. Moms learned the importance of play and enjoyed bringing their babies to the stimulation rooms at the centres to engage their babies in activities to encourage their growth and development.
Parenting: Moms and dads were equipped with skills to ensure children’s well-being, reduce preventable deaths, promote education and protect children. This training is expected to improve health, food security, immunization levels and overall child development within the communities. Moms learned the importance of play and enjoyed bringing their babies to the stimulation rooms at the centres to engage their babies in activities to encourage their growth and development.
Parenting: Moms and dads were equipped with skills to ensure children’s well-being, reduce preventable deaths, promote education and protect children. This training is expected to improve health, food security, immunization levels and overall child development within the communities. Moms learned the importance of play and enjoyed bringing their babies to the stimulation rooms at the centres to engage their babies in activities to encourage their growth and development.
Parenting: Moms and dads were equipped with skills to ensure children’s well-being, reduce preventable deaths, promote education and protect children. This training is expected to improve health, food security, immunization levels and overall child development within the communities. Moms learned the importance of play and enjoyed bringing their babies to the stimulation rooms at the centres to engage their babies in activities to encourage their growth and development.
Parenting: Moms and dads were equipped with skills to ensure children’s well-being, reduce preventable deaths, promote education and protect children. This training is expected to improve health, food security, immunization levels and overall child development within the communities. Moms learned the importance of play and enjoyed bringing their babies to the stimulation rooms at the centres to engage their babies in activities to encourage their growth and development.
Health care: Babies’ weight and height were measured regularly to check for signs of malnutrition. Moms and babies received regular medical screenings and treatment as needed. Moms also received pregnancy support. Staff and health professionals taught moms about nutrition, family planning, breastfeeding and how to make oral rehydration solutions. Moms living with HIV were encouraged to breastfeed for up to one year for safe infant feeding practices.
Health care: Babies’ weight and height were measured regularly to check for signs of malnutrition. Moms and babies received regular medical screenings and treatment as needed. Moms also received pregnancy support. Staff and health professionals taught moms about nutrition, family planning, breastfeeding and how to make oral rehydration solutions. Moms living with HIV were encouraged to breastfeed for up to one year for safe infant feeding practices.
Health care: Babies’ weight and height were measured regularly to check for signs of malnutrition. Moms and babies received regular medical screenings and treatment as needed. Moms also received pregnancy support. Staff and health professionals taught moms about nutrition, family planning, breastfeeding and how to make oral rehydration solutions. Moms living with HIV were encouraged to breastfeed for up to one year for safe infant feeding practices.
Health care: Babies’ weight and height were measured regularly to check for signs of malnutrition. Moms and babies received regular medical screenings and treatment as needed. Moms also received pregnancy support. Staff and health professionals taught moms about nutrition, family planning, breastfeeding and how to make oral rehydration solutions. Moms living with HIV were encouraged to breastfeed for up to one year for safe infant feeding practices.
Health care: Babies’ weight and height were measured regularly to check for signs of malnutrition. Moms and babies received regular medical screenings and treatment as needed. Moms also received pregnancy support. Staff and health professionals taught moms about nutrition, family planning, breastfeeding and how to make oral rehydration solutions. Moms living with HIV were encouraged to breastfeed for up to one year for safe infant feeding practices.
Health care: Babies’ weight and height were measured regularly to check for signs of malnutrition. Moms and babies received regular medical screenings and treatment as needed. Moms also received pregnancy support. Staff and health professionals taught moms about nutrition, family planning, breastfeeding and how to make oral rehydration solutions. Moms living with HIV were encouraged to breastfeed for up to one year for safe infant feeding practices.
Health care: Babies’ weight and height were measured regularly to check for signs of malnutrition. Moms and babies received regular medical screenings and treatment as needed. Moms also received pregnancy support. Staff and health professionals taught moms about nutrition, family planning, breastfeeding and how to make oral rehydration solutions. Moms living with HIV were encouraged to breastfeed for up to one year for safe infant feeding practices.
Health care: Babies’ weight and height were measured regularly to check for signs of malnutrition. Moms and babies received regular medical screenings and treatment as needed. Moms also received pregnancy support. Staff and health professionals taught moms about nutrition, family planning, breastfeeding and how to make oral rehydration solutions. Moms living with HIV were encouraged to breastfeed for up to one year for safe infant feeding practices.
Health care: Babies’ weight and height were measured regularly to check for signs of malnutrition. Moms and babies received regular medical screenings and treatment as needed. Moms also received pregnancy support. Staff and health professionals taught moms about nutrition, family planning, breastfeeding and how to make oral rehydration solutions. Moms living with HIV were encouraged to breastfeed for up to one year for safe infant feeding practices.
Health care: Babies’ weight and height were measured regularly to check for signs of malnutrition. Moms and babies received regular medical screenings and treatment as needed. Moms also received pregnancy support. Staff and health professionals taught moms about nutrition, family planning, breastfeeding and how to make oral rehydration solutions. Moms living with HIV were encouraged to breastfeed for up to one year for safe infant feeding practices.
Health care: Babies’ weight and height were measured regularly to check for signs of malnutrition. Moms and babies received regular medical screenings and treatment as needed. Moms also received pregnancy support. Staff and health professionals taught moms about nutrition, family planning, breastfeeding and how to make oral rehydration solutions. Moms living with HIV were encouraged to breastfeed for up to one year for safe infant feeding practices.
Health care: Babies’ weight and height were measured regularly to check for signs of malnutrition. Moms and babies received regular medical screenings and treatment as needed. Moms also received pregnancy support. Staff and health professionals taught moms about nutrition, family planning, breastfeeding and how to make oral rehydration solutions. Moms living with HIV were encouraged to breastfeed for up to one year for safe infant feeding practices.
Health care: Babies’ weight and height were measured regularly to check for signs of malnutrition. Moms and babies received regular medical screenings and treatment as needed. Moms also received pregnancy support. Staff and health professionals taught moms about nutrition, family planning, breastfeeding and how to make oral rehydration solutions. Moms living with HIV were encouraged to breastfeed for up to one year for safe infant feeding practices.
Health care: Babies’ weight and height were measured regularly to check for signs of malnutrition. Moms and babies received regular medical screenings and treatment as needed. Moms also received pregnancy support. Staff and health professionals taught moms about nutrition, family planning, breastfeeding and how to make oral rehydration solutions. Moms living with HIV were encouraged to breastfeed for up to one year for safe infant feeding practices.
Spiritual nurture: Moms gathered in small groups to praise God through song, share Scripture and encourage each other. Women’s fellowship and discipleship classes have strengthened spiritual understanding and promoted forgiveness and unity. Families are experiencing safer, healthier home environments grounded in biblical principles. Moms also engaged in acts of community service.
Spiritual nurture: Moms gathered in small groups to praise God through song, share Scripture and encourage each other. Women’s fellowship and discipleship classes have strengthened spiritual understanding and promoted forgiveness and unity. Families are experiencing safer, healthier home environments grounded in biblical principles. Moms also engaged in acts of community service.
Spiritual nurture: Moms gathered in small groups to praise God through song, share Scripture and encourage each other. Women’s fellowship and discipleship classes have strengthened spiritual understanding and promoted forgiveness and unity. Families are experiencing safer, healthier home environments grounded in biblical principles. Moms also engaged in acts of community service.
Spiritual nurture: Moms gathered in small groups to praise God through song, share Scripture and encourage each other. Women’s fellowship and discipleship classes have strengthened spiritual understanding and promoted forgiveness and unity. Families are experiencing safer, healthier home environments grounded in biblical principles. Moms also engaged in acts of community service.
Spiritual nurture: Moms gathered in small groups to praise God through song, share Scripture and encourage each other. Women’s fellowship and discipleship classes have strengthened spiritual understanding and promoted forgiveness and unity. Families are experiencing safer, healthier home environments grounded in biblical principles. Moms also engaged in acts of community service.
Spiritual nurture: Moms gathered in small groups to praise God through song, share Scripture and encourage each other. Women’s fellowship and discipleship classes have strengthened spiritual understanding and promoted forgiveness and unity. Families are experiencing safer, healthier home environments grounded in biblical principles. Moms also engaged in acts of community service.
Spiritual nurture: Moms gathered in small groups to praise God through song, share Scripture and encourage each other. Women’s fellowship and discipleship classes have strengthened spiritual understanding and promoted forgiveness and unity. Families are experiencing safer, healthier home environments grounded in biblical principles. Moms also engaged in acts of community service.
Spiritual nurture: Moms gathered in small groups to praise God through song, share Scripture and encourage each other. Women’s fellowship and discipleship classes have strengthened spiritual understanding and promoted forgiveness and unity. Families are experiencing safer, healthier home environments grounded in biblical principles. Moms also engaged in acts of community service.
Spiritual nurture: Moms gathered in small groups to praise God through song, share Scripture and encourage each other. Women’s fellowship and discipleship classes have strengthened spiritual understanding and promoted forgiveness and unity. Families are experiencing safer, healthier home environments grounded in biblical principles. Moms also engaged in acts of community service.
Spiritual nurture: Moms gathered in small groups to praise God through song, share Scripture and encourage each other. Women’s fellowship and discipleship classes have strengthened spiritual understanding and promoted forgiveness and unity. Families are experiencing safer, healthier home environments grounded in biblical principles. Moms also engaged in acts of community service.
Spiritual nurture: Moms gathered in small groups to praise God through song, share Scripture and encourage each other. Women’s fellowship and discipleship classes have strengthened spiritual understanding and promoted forgiveness and unity. Families are experiencing safer, healthier home environments grounded in biblical principles. Moms also engaged in acts of community service.
Spiritual nurture: Moms gathered in small groups to praise God through song, share Scripture and encourage each other. Women’s fellowship and discipleship classes have strengthened spiritual understanding and promoted forgiveness and unity. Families are experiencing safer, healthier home environments grounded in biblical principles. Moms also engaged in acts of community service.
Vocational training: Moms in the Kihunda Survival Program participated in tailoring and salon-skills training to support their economic empowerment. Some caregivers have already obtained sewing machines and are earning income by making school uniforms and children’s garments. Other moms are growing pineapple and passion fruit, and moms in the Burema Survival Program each received a piglet to rear. These livelihood opportunities are helping caregivers build financial independence and better support their families.
Vocational training: Moms in the Kihunda Survival Program participated in tailoring and salon-skills training to support their economic empowerment. Some caregivers have already obtained sewing machines and are earning income by making school uniforms and children’s garments. Other moms are growing pineapple and passion fruit, and moms in the Burema Survival Program each received a piglet to rear. These livelihood opportunities are helping caregivers build financial independence and better support their families.
Vocational training: Moms in the Kihunda Survival Program participated in tailoring and salon-skills training to support their economic empowerment. Some caregivers have already obtained sewing machines and are earning income by making school uniforms and children’s garments. Other moms are growing pineapple and passion fruit, and moms in the Burema Survival Program each received a piglet to rear. These livelihood opportunities are helping caregivers build financial independence and better support their families.
Vocational training: Moms in the Kihunda Survival Program participated in tailoring and salon-skills training to support their economic empowerment. Some caregivers have already obtained sewing machines and are earning income by making school uniforms and children’s garments. Other moms are growing pineapple and passion fruit, and moms in the Burema Survival Program each received a piglet to rear. These livelihood opportunities are helping caregivers build financial independence and better support their families.
Vocational training: Moms in the Kihunda Survival Program participated in tailoring and salon-skills training to support their economic empowerment. Some caregivers have already obtained sewing machines and are earning income by making school uniforms and children’s garments. Other moms are growing pineapple and passion fruit, and moms in the Burema Survival Program each received a piglet to rear. These livelihood opportunities are helping caregivers build financial independence and better support their families.
Vocational training: Moms in the Kihunda Survival Program participated in tailoring and salon-skills training to support their economic empowerment. Some caregivers have already obtained sewing machines and are earning income by making school uniforms and children’s garments. Other moms are growing pineapple and passion fruit, and moms in the Burema Survival Program each received a piglet to rear. These livelihood opportunities are helping caregivers build financial independence and better support their families.
Vocational training: Moms in the Kihunda Survival Program participated in tailoring and salon-skills training to support their economic empowerment. Some caregivers have already obtained sewing machines and are earning income by making school uniforms and children’s garments. Other moms are growing pineapple and passion fruit, and moms in the Burema Survival Program each received a piglet to rear. These livelihood opportunities are helping caregivers build financial independence and better support their families.
Vocational training: Moms in the Kihunda Survival Program participated in tailoring and salon-skills training to support their economic empowerment. Some caregivers have already obtained sewing machines and are earning income by making school uniforms and children’s garments. Other moms are growing pineapple and passion fruit, and moms in the Burema Survival Program each received a piglet to rear. These livelihood opportunities are helping caregivers build financial independence and better support their families.
Vocational training: Moms in the Kihunda Survival Program participated in tailoring and salon-skills training to support their economic empowerment. Some caregivers have already obtained sewing machines and are earning income by making school uniforms and children’s garments. Other moms are growing pineapple and passion fruit, and moms in the Burema Survival Program each received a piglet to rear. These livelihood opportunities are helping caregivers build financial independence and better support their families.
Vocational training: Moms in the Kihunda Survival Program participated in tailoring and salon-skills training to support their economic empowerment. Some caregivers have already obtained sewing machines and are earning income by making school uniforms and children’s garments. Other moms are growing pineapple and passion fruit, and moms in the Burema Survival Program each received a piglet to rear. These livelihood opportunities are helping caregivers build financial independence and better support their families.
Vocational training: Moms in the Kihunda Survival Program participated in tailoring and salon-skills training to support their economic empowerment. Some caregivers have already obtained sewing machines and are earning income by making school uniforms and children’s garments. Other moms are growing pineapple and passion fruit, and moms in the Burema Survival Program each received a piglet to rear. These livelihood opportunities are helping caregivers build financial independence and better support their families.
Vocational training: Moms in the Kihunda Survival Program participated in tailoring and salon-skills training to support their economic empowerment. Some caregivers have already obtained sewing machines and are earning income by making school uniforms and children’s garments. Other moms are growing pineapple and passion fruit, and moms in the Burema Survival Program each received a piglet to rear. These livelihood opportunities are helping caregivers build financial independence and better support their families.
Vocational training: Moms in the Kihunda Survival Program participated in tailoring and salon-skills training to support their economic empowerment. Some caregivers have already obtained sewing machines and are earning income by making school uniforms and children’s garments. Other moms are growing pineapple and passion fruit, and moms in the Burema Survival Program each received a piglet to rear. These livelihood opportunities are helping caregivers build financial independence and better support their families.
Vocational training: Moms in the Kihunda Survival Program participated in tailoring and salon-skills training to support their economic empowerment. Some caregivers have already obtained sewing machines and are earning income by making school uniforms and children’s garments. Other moms are growing pineapple and passion fruit, and moms in the Burema Survival Program each received a piglet to rear. These livelihood opportunities are helping caregivers build financial independence and better support their families.
Home visits: Program staff visited moms at home to offer personalized, targeted support. Moms learned the warning signs to look for in their babies and how to help their children develop their motor, fine motor and cognitive skills. Moms also learned to practise good hygiene and home cleanliness to prevent illness.
Home visits: Program staff visited moms at home to offer personalized, targeted support. Moms learned the warning signs to look for in their babies and how to help their children develop their motor, fine motor and cognitive skills. Moms also learned to practise good hygiene and home cleanliness to prevent illness.
Home visits: Program staff visited moms at home to offer personalized, targeted support. Moms learned the warning signs to look for in their babies and how to help their children develop their motor, fine motor and cognitive skills. Moms also learned to practise good hygiene and home cleanliness to prevent illness.
Home visits: Program staff visited moms at home to offer personalized, targeted support. Moms learned the warning signs to look for in their babies and how to help their children develop their motor, fine motor and cognitive skills. Moms also learned to practise good hygiene and home cleanliness to prevent illness.
Home visits: Program staff visited moms at home to offer personalized, targeted support. Moms learned the warning signs to look for in their babies and how to help their children develop their motor, fine motor and cognitive skills. Moms also learned to practise good hygiene and home cleanliness to prevent illness.
Home visits: Program staff visited moms at home to offer personalized, targeted support. Moms learned the warning signs to look for in their babies and how to help their children develop their motor, fine motor and cognitive skills. Moms also learned to practise good hygiene and home cleanliness to prevent illness.
Home visits: Program staff visited moms at home to offer personalized, targeted support. Moms learned the warning signs to look for in their babies and how to help their children develop their motor, fine motor and cognitive skills. Moms also learned to practise good hygiene and home cleanliness to prevent illness.
Home visits: Program staff visited moms at home to offer personalized, targeted support. Moms learned the warning signs to look for in their babies and how to help their children develop their motor, fine motor and cognitive skills. Moms also learned to practise good hygiene and home cleanliness to prevent illness.
Pastor Kobusingye, UG0578

ReportA message from a pastor

I am Pastor Kobusingye, and I am the overseer of Burema Full Gospel Church, which ministers to the Survival beneficiaries at the Burema Child Development Centre (UG0578). The centre is in the southwestern region of Uganda in Kanungu District, Kanyantorogo Subcounty in Burema Village. It is a rural community comprised of mixed tribes like Bakiga, Banyankole and the Batwa people. The area is also home to different languages and religious denominations, like protestants, Pentecostals, Seventh-day Adventists, Muslims and Roman Catholics.

On behalf of the church community, we are very grateful for your love, care and support that you have always given to us. The Survival mothers thank you very much for the great support that has greatly changed their lives. The centre serves 18 mothers and 20 babies, providing holistic child development.

Your support has revealed God’s love to the broken-hearted and given hope to the hopeless in our community. Through your support, Survival mothers have been impacted spiritually, physically, economically and socially. They have come to know Christ, participate in zonal fellowships and discipleships every month and learned how to pray for their families.

They have been able to receive medical care through the program and this has helped both mothers and babies to improve. Sanitation and hygiene have also improved through health seminars and hygiene promotions every month. Currently, Survival mothers have been able to receive piglets as income-generating activities to sustain their families and support their economic development.

Our church’s vision is to ensure the centre’s community reflects the Creator. Our vision for the beneficiaries is to help them develop in the knowledge of Jesus Christ socially, spiritually, economically and cognitively so as to become reliable vessels of change amidst these challenges.

Thank you for all your support rendered to these Survival beneficiary mothers and babies. We pray that the Almighty continuously blesses you. May the Lord bless the works of your hands, protect and bless you in whatever you do, increase your territories and watch over you all the days of your life.

Yours in Christ,

Pastor Kobusingye, UG0578
Glorious

ReportA message from those your gift helped

My name is Glorious, and I am the caregiver to Adaline, a participant at the Burema Survival Program. I am 29 years old and have been married to my husband, Dan, for six years. We are blessed with two children, and our second-born, Adaline, now 8 months old, is growing healthy and enjoys playing with toys.

I am an active member of the Burema Full Gospel Church. Since 2017, I have been actively serving in the choir and occasionally teaching Sunday school children. As a family, we rely on farming for our livelihood. Although our land is small, we grow crops like pineapples, maize and cassava. After harvesting, we sell these crops to earn money for our household needs.

Adaline and I joined the Survival program in March, shortly after her birth. Since then, the support we have received has been transformative—physically, spiritually, emotionally and economically. We have received supplementary food that has greatly improved our children’s diet, as well as items such as mattresses and children’s clothing, easing the financial burden.

Through income-generating training sessions, we learned how to save and manage resources effectively. One notable blessing was the provision of a piglet to each household, encouraging us to rear and multiply livestock to generate future income.

The program has also equipped me with knowledge on proper child nutrition, family planning methods and improved farming techniques, which contributed to the well-being of my family.

I am deeply grateful for the love, care and support you have extended to us. Your generosity has brought hope and joy into our lives, and we pray that God continues to bless you abundantly.

Yours sincerely,

Glorious
Solomon

ReportA message from a partnership facilitator

Receive greetings in the name of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. I give God all the glory for His unwavering love and protection that continues to sustain us in this ministry of child and youth development.

I am deeply grateful for the love, care and support you have tirelessly extended to UG0578 Burema Child and Youth Development Centre, especially in ministering to the Survival children, mothers and fathers in the community. Your unwavering support has significantly improved their standard of living—not only in terms of physical health but also spiritually, as the love of Christ is now evident in their families and the community at large.

For the past six years, the church has faithfully ministered to both Survival and home-based programming participants. I am thrilled to share that the church currently has 20 Survival and 50 home-based programming participants registered under the program. It is a blessing to witness that many home-based program participants have secured sponsors and are already receiving gifts. This fills my heart with gratitude, as your generosity has become a true reflection of God’s love.

The caregivers are equally thankful and often testify to the transformation they are experiencing through the program. Some have come to confess Christ as their Saviour through fellowships organized by the centre. Others have benefited from the provision of essential medical care—often expensive and difficult to access—along with health seminars and promotions that have significantly improved hygiene and sanitation within their homes. Mothers have acquired valuable skills in tailoring, baking and hairdressing, which empower them economically. Through your support, providing monthly food supplements has greatly contributed to improving the health and well-being of the participants. Furthermore, the functional adult literacy classes have been a life-changing opportunity for those who need to learn how to read and write, giving them a sense of empowerment and dignity.

I am particularly touched by stories of hope and survival. In one case, twins were born prematurely at 1.86 kilograms and 1.4 kilograms. Their parents had little hope for their survival. Through your support, the centre provided supplementary food for six months. Now, these children are thriving and growing well. Another inspiring testimony is of a child who lost her mother at birth and had minimal chances of survival. However, with your intervention through supplementary food and consistent home visits by the centre staff, she is now a healthy and thriving 1-year-and-7-month-old.

I trust that, through your continued support, the mothers will be empowered to overcome daily struggles and find lasting transformation. As you continue to give selflessly, I pray that the Lord will enlarge your territories and build a hedge of protection around you wherever you go. May God richly bless and keep you.

Yours in Christ,

Solomon