We keep moving..

Life at the Village of Hope continues to grow in many different ways. An expedition to the market brought more new clothes, shoes, scrubbing brushes, underwear, basins and a few other bits and pieces. It has been amazing to see how the children have settled in after a few days. The first day they were unsure about this "new life", they were unsure about the 'mzungus' but now only 4 days later, they are practically jumping on us before we get out of Robert's car. we have even seen little Ibra (the 3 year old boy) smiling and laughing - Praise God. Young Fiona has been somewhat unwell with Malaria, but yesterday she was playing cath with me for nearly half an hour and she was smiling... Today we continue meetings with building relationships with our bank manager and the probation officer. This has been a true plan of God - through registering the children with this probation office, he has actually formalised us and certified us as a CBO - Community Based Organisation in Jinja. This is an important step towards having our organisation endorsed as a NGO. In fact, this guy will recommend us to the NGO Board - this is truly an answer to prayer and not something we thought we could achieve while we were here. There are still a few steps towards NGO but with God in control - it may just be one qiant leap. Our relationship with Pastor George has also yielded fruit of sorts -yes we will be bringing home more necklaces - but we will also be on national radio this evening - we have 15 minutes on what is supposed to be the second largest FM radia station based in Jinja, with coverage in the entire easter region of Uganda and all the way west to Kampala and as far as the northern border. We look forward to coming home and sharing HIStory - I am so thankful and priviledged that God has chosen me and the rest of the HopeBuilders team to be HIS instruments in this particular symphony of life - WOW - can it get any better?

the smiling faces of the kids

joel with the kids!!!!
















kids racing!






























mother agnes with her lovely kids

the kids are getting used to the thier new home!!!

the new kids!!!

The long awaited kids finally moved in a few days ago!

In the timing of the lord, the 18 children are here. finally the village of hope will shine with this little ones. the future of these children will forever be bright, because the cycle of poverty has been broken. we look froward to instilling displine and hope into their brocken lives.

the kids are reallygratefull for what you guys have done for them. A big thank you to rob,johann,damian,andrew,rob van,pastor glenn...and all teams that made this happen. your faithfullness has born friuts. we look forward to your continued support in all areas since the lord has birthed this great vision.

the visit by johann and damian and joel who will be with us for a week , has greatly boosted the village of hope. i must say theyve greatly blessed us and the kids, a riminder that this great vision was born by God.

The Village of Hope - August 14th - with children.

PRAISE GOD - as was said at the end of the last 'Race Across Australia,' "the race is not really over until we see smiling faces in the homes". Well now there are now 18 lovely orphans in the two homes of the Village of Hope. They are cared for by two wonderful matrons - Agnes and Lois (great biblical names). For Damian, Joel and Johann it was an awesome priviledge to see these children and their smiling faces in the Village of Hope 4 hours after they landed in Uganda, after 24 hours of travelling. The site looks great and Robert and Ivan have been doing some great work on behalf of HopeBuilders International. What we are witnessing now is a testament to all the prayers and hard work of many, the board members and the three teams that have already invested much in this work. We look forward to the future teams and the ability to complete more homes so that more of these wonderful orphans can be part of the campaign to "Break the Cycle of Poverty".

painting of the houses!!

Ms bageze a widow who joined the team very busy painting.















painter florence,busy





















a lady busy at work
















part of the wall of house b that was painted

Armed with the wall paper glue that we had and the instructions for mixing the paint, w

e emabarked on mixing the glue and the chalk, surely we werent betrayed, we had a good paint, we showed the ladies how to paint. since then,they've done an amazing job! they are quick learners. The paint is compatible with the walls,something that is good. house B is soon being completed.

i know how you are anxious to see the children and the mothers in the homes,this will happen very soon, thanks for your prayers and help. we apreciate all the prayers and support you give us. the inspector will come and go around the houses. already almost all things are now ready.

the village of hope

this is the new look of the houses, next week the ladies will work on painting the intnernal walls of the houses. what is unique abotu the paint is that we are using wall paper glue mixed with chalk and water.
The good thing with this paint is
-the paint is free from solvents
-improves with age.
-cost effective
-electrostatically neutral
-the brushes/rollers can be cleaned
-all ingredients like chalk are readilly available.
This produces a very good coat,its envirromentally friendly and its aklso one of the ways the widows wuill earn an extra income since they will be painting.

the houses-pavements

The site has been busy with the setting up of pavements for the houses. with this finished in a few days we shall then buy things to go into the houses for the kids. then the kids shall come in.
pray that all goes well, thanks for keeping us in your prayers.. The pavements are still in process of being done.