Burned Bricks and a Hearty Garden Thanks to the Rainy Season

Picking Passion Fruits from the garden 

behind their house, but in front of where the 

orphanage will be.

My first look at the garden  They try so hard to
provide for themselves.

  

The Passion Fruit and even the seeds
are so good!

More vegetables growing in the gardens.

                                            Robert showed me the pile of burnt bricks ready
                                            to be used.  See the holes under the pile?  And
                                            there is hay on then very top.  These are the places
                                            the fire if started to burn the bricks.

More green vegetables, growing extremely well due

to all the rains!!

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The Importance of An Orphanage To House Our Orphans - Part 2

  

Robert, NTonio, & I took a tour the area where they will build the orphanage and between the back if the house and the orphanage site.  In-between the house and site is their larger garden

area with delicious Passion Fruit (that is soooooo tasty), and other green vegetables that they are growing and are training other villages to grow to help with healthier eating choices.  

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The Importance of An Orphanage To House Our Orphans - Part 1

I cannot tell you the importance of the need for an orphanage to house our orphans who are now spread from home to home around our village.  One here, two there...not enough food for their own families, let alone extras, but thank God some loving people have agreed to put roofs over their heads, and an indoor place to lie their weary heads at nights.  

Robert showing me the end of the bricks

that are fully built and ready to be 

burned to keep hardened.

Do you know how much work goes into building an orphanage? Especially when you have to literally build (make it by hand) each brick, one by one?  And then consider building 50,000 of them.  They have completed almost 10,000 bricks, but only two men working on our project, as we can only afford to pay these two men at this time.  So I can say that I have personally been to the building site of the orphanage, and have seen how the process is done.  It is so hard to know that they work out in the heat, long days, long hours, and can only be paid so little.  And as coming from the US myself (Kelly), and knowing the difference between Uganda Schillings and US Dollars now, the cost of building this orphanage, I have calculated, it is $17,000.00 US dollars.  In shillings, it looks like three times more!!  But I cannot see how it is unrealistic to pray that if one, or even a few bigger companies, could pull together to pay for this as a tax right off, as it is a non-profit 501 (c)(3).  What a blessing this could be, not only to a group of children in desperate need, but a benefit to those when it comes to tax time.  😊      

Robert has taken me to see where

the bricks are being made, and

where the orphanage will be. 

A row of almost 10,000 bricks.

A fresh layer of handmade bricks

built that day. They will then be

covered with straw to dry. 

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Cooking Brings Hard Work and Obstacles

When you cook in a village with no electricity, it can be challenging.  When you need to cook, and it's for a whole school of 74 children, and 6 teachers, and anyone who comes to visit in the meantime, or a celebration, then that makes for an even bigger job!!  We have no ovens in our village of Musita.  The individual families meals even have its own challenges.

Our cookstove ready to cook supper.

Eating from our mini cook stoves at our home.This is the ONLY way we have to cook all outside.  

Our cook uses these extra large pots and wood for fires large 

enough to cook the meals for the school. 

Keeping food hot by wrapping it in these
leaves.

                             

When expecting company, the wonderful women in the village
are quick to be willing to help out and work together.

One of the village women hard at preparing
a large meal for guests we will have...elderly
widows and orphans.

Our wonderful cook serving the children.

Very large pots of beans, posho
and rice.

             The elderly and widows line up for dinner.             

A widow & sweet teen
girl from a near by village visiting
Aunt Kelly.
                                                                                                                   

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My African Family - My Second Home

This is Robert and Harriet (Watulo) Talugende, my family

(Harriet on the right, and (from the left...Marka, Haggai, Esther Robert, Elijah, Harriet, and David.  I love them more than I will ever be able to explain!!  They let me stay in their home, gave me my own room, cooked for me, did my laundry and treated me as true family and with unconditional love for a month!!  Next summer I pray that I can go back and stay longer!!! 

A new printer for the school to go along with their computer donated by family friends.  Praise the Lord!!!

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Fun Times Thanks to Giving Friends

When mail comes and it's anything larger than a regular envelope, the excitement is UNBELIEVABLE!!  This gift was of great excitement!  And I mean the small package on the left in the top picture...😊 

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Our Oldest Children's Classroom NEEDED Desperately Redone

We are desperately needing our 5th schoolroom to be made into an "official" schoolroom.  What we are now using is a "temporary" schoolroom, made of wood half up for walls, and tarps for a roof.  In order to keep our school open for the 74 children we have this far, we need to have the 5th classroom done, so the gov't. won't have any reason to close us down.  In answer to what you may be thinking, no, the gov't. is of no help to us whatsoever as we are a free orphanage school, as even all public schools here are not free and cost monies for everyone, however, they do set rules for any and all schools.  So, we must get this done immediately.  Any and all help for us to complete this would be GREATLY appreciated!!

  To the left are the 2 brick schoolrooms, where you see the tarped roof, is the classroom that needs completed.

Here is a closeup of the room that needs done for our 

oldest children's classroom, that needs built of brick and a metal roof.  Walking inside for a visit is Rev. Fredrick and myself.

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