"For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you 
plans to give you a hope and a future"
Raising Godly leaders for a country in need
May 2015 

 

            

 

Greetings in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ!

Meet Prossy. She is such a sweet little girl and she says she loves Jesus so much. She usually has a very bright smile and enjoys being with other people. In this picture she is in AWANA and has been jumping and singing and enjoying the music.

One cannot tell that Prossy has so many problems for such a little girl. I guess at five one overlooks many things. Prossy was a baby when I first met her. She was very undernourished. Her mother and father were both infected with AIDS.   Her father died two years ago and her mother is very sick.

Prossy does not really understand all of this. She knows that her father left the family and later died of an illness.   She is the youngest in the family of seven children from 2 different fathers.   Her mother is very sick now and often leaves for long periods of time, leaving Prossy and her brother, Ronald, with a neighbor. The family lives in a mud hut with their sick mom, and other times in the kitchen of the helping neighbor who has her own kids. They often go without food, except for mangos, which they have to climb a tree to get.

Prossy often suffers from malaria and other such illnesses that are common in Uganda. Still she smiles and loves to come to AWANA and church. She attends Kindergarten at our Genesis Nursery/Primary School.

Prossy's brother, Ronald, is always smiling too. He, however, understands more. He is very bright and looks after his little sister most of the time. He was concerned for her and came to us asking for help for the little girl. We give thanks that both of them are sponsored now.

 

 

 

 Peace is another one of our sponsored kids with a story to tell. She lived in the slums with her mother who was not taking good care of her and her father had been arrested. She was begging for food from neighbors on a regular basis when one of them decided to report the situation to the child welfare officer in charge or the area. Both of her parents, it turns out, are infected with the AIDS viruses and have given up.

Peace was brought by the state to live at the orphanage when she was four years old. She is now seven years old and in the 1st grade at Genesis School. Her life is very different now with a warm bed, plenty to eat and most importantly, love and an opportunity to receive the ultimate love found in Jesus.

 

              

 

 

 

 

I give thanks to the Lord for all of you, and the whole staff prays for you all.   God has made a way for the children we serve through your help.   So many of them have seen their lives changed through the help that you give to them.   They have come to understand the scriptures that tell them that God's plans are good for them and that He has a plan.   They have come to understand that they do not just merely exist in the world with no meaning. Life is no longer without purpose.   They do not have to spend time looking for money to go to school, or looking for food and wearing rags for clothes when they receive help.   They still climb the mango trees because they like mangos, but not because it is a meal. It is so important to them in order to study, to see a future, and more. I know the summer months are coming, but please remember your child or youth that you support, as I assure you they remember you. Thanks so much and God bless you ,
Katherine
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

303-847-9522
P.O. Box 620727,  Littleton, CO 80162
P.O. Box 1402, Mbale, Uganda, East Africa
 
Sponsorship
It Works!

 

You don't have to look far to find someone in need or organizations created to help them. Many have a calling from God and each of them has a different approach to meeting specific needs. When Katherine first visited Uganda nearly 20 years ago she considered the needs and best way in which to address them. God stirred her heart for the many orphans she met and she initially contemplated beginning an orphanage.

 

As Katherine built relationships with children and families in the community of Kamonkoli she found that many orphans had extended families willing to offer care, but unable to do so with financial and health needs of their own. She further found that the desperate circumstances of poverty often caused family breakdown and abandonment of children to extended family and orphanages. Offering support to children and their families in their homes seemed to be the most effective way to minister to these children and end the cycle of poverty for their families.

 

Now that HUM has been ministering to these families for 16 years it is exciting to see most of these children grow up educated, securing life sustaining employment and loving Jesus. Along with our own evidence we see studies of larger, long standing sponsorship programs who serve individual children directly as we do, that demonstrate significant life change for sponsored children. Dr. Bruce Wydick, professor of economics at the University of San Francisco found that over their non-sponsored peers sponsored children are 27%-40% more likely to complete secondary education, 50%-80% more likely to complete a university education, up to 75% more likely to become community leaders and up to 70% more likely to become church leaders. Overall, these children gained hope for a future.

 

We also offer help in a crisis. Many of our sponsored children live with ill parents who need support and many must make arrangements for their children for after they pass away. We have some of these children in our orphanage. Below are two of our newly sponsored sisters who just lost their mother. Please pray for them as they grieve their loss and we determine a permanent living situation for them. They are currently with their very old grandmother who has very limited mobility.

 

   

                      Faith                    

  

          Rebecca 

In addition to meeting educational needs and reaching these children and families for Christ, HUM sponsorship offers medical treatment and nutrition to the many malnourished children that we serve. Medical treatment can save the life of a child who otherwise could have been lost to a treatable illness.     A healthy diet offers significant physical, mental and emotional transforma-tion for a child.

 

Thank you to all of you who sponsor a child and to those who support our different programs and ministry to this community. It is making a difference!