Water Under Way

Success! On behalf of our community here in Ndejje, Mollie and I want to thank everyone who participated in this years Global Ties Christmas Ornament Project. The members of Kamba made over three hundred ornaments and within just a few days of them arriving into the hands of our diligent representative, Karen David, they were all purchased. We are still waiting for the grand total of this years event, but we are somewhere in the range of $2000!!! This is beyond our expectations, and we feel so blessed to be able to use these donations, these gifts to improve the sanitary and health situation for Hope Primary's 160 children.

So we have sparred no time upon arriving back to the city. We want your contributions to put hands to work so that those hands can be cleaned with our very own running water. After relaying the profound success of Jacques and his teams efforts on the ornaments, we quickly made arraignments to head to the Water Department to put our deposit down. We gave $250 to the Project Manager who assured us that we would have running water by today. I went yesterday to inspect the progress and found 4 young boys digging the trench who also assured me that they would be laying the pipes today. Everyone is beside themselves that Hope is actually going to start the new school year with running water.

On a personal note, Mollie and I came to Uganda, to Africa, because we knew that God had called us to be a part of a struggle that was not our own, so that we could learn more about this world we share and perhaps pay forward the many blessings we have been afforded in our very short lives. It has been our privilege to share this experience with all of you, and it has been an even bigger privilege to see the compassion and generosity that you have all shown to this community and to our ideas. We hope that one day we can personally thank each and every one of you for giving us the opportunity to pursue this calling. Thank you.