Kaihura:
Embrace Uganda grew out of the Hamp’s and Cobin’s love for Jane’s home, for the orphans and other vulnerable children that lived in her village of Kaihura. Since the Fall of 2007, our non-profit, fully volunteer organization has, along with its Ugandan partner, Bringing Hope to the Family, constructed a new home for Home Again Orphanage, finished the existing Dorcas Vocational School, ma
de improvements to a public school in the area, and supported clean water initiatives and self-sustaining agricultural projects. It is now in the process of raising the additional funds to complete the building of the Hope Again Medical Clinic. Bukerere:
While change is coming to Kaihura, the work of Embrace Uganda doesn’t end there. Miles away, just outside the capital of Kampala in the town of Bukerere, another orphanage needed our help. Team members have lived, played, and worked with the children and housemothers of Agape Childrens’ Village. With our other Ugandan partners, African Church Empowerment Ministries and Agape Baptist Church, we have assisted in construction projects to better the community’s school and the grounds of the orphanage. In addition, when we learned that the orphanage would lose its funding, resulting in the “reintegration” of the children into communities that often cannot support them, Embrace Uganda committed to raising the necessary funds to support the orphanage, both from the outside as well as from small economic enterprises that could be developed on site. Koreng:
If you drive the rutted roads east from Bukerere, past Jinja, the source of the Nile River, and on to the plains of the Teso region, you will come to the community of Koreng. The hometown of Michael Okwakol, pastor of Agape Baptist Church and Director of African Church Empowerment Ministries, Koreng is a community with a lack of material resources but no lack of spirit. It lacks electricity, basic health care, easily accessible sources of clean water, and proper sanitation. And yet because of the work of Embrace Uganda, Kadicar Primary School now has clean drinking water, funding for additional teachers, and proper sanitation. We continue to assess how Embrace Uganda can contribute meaningfully to this impoverished area.
