One Village at a time! (Jerusalem)
Welcome to our ‘One Village at a time!’ series. We will keep you updated on what’s happening in the different villages we are journeying with in the Pearl of Africa. Our desire is for you to get to know the villages that have been empowered by the principles of our Paradigm Shift Training on proactivity, future and other mindedness, setting valuable priorities, unity and investing in personal development. This poverty stricken community embraced the FAITH (Food Always In The Home) gardening initiative leading to remarkable progress.
Jerusalem was the first village in Western Uganda that TCI worked in. Our friend Pastor Moses connected us to Pastor Lauben who had a vision to see his village come to life by establishing a small primary school that fostered Christian education in his church building. TCI came alongside him and the villagers with the Paradigm Shift training.
By God’s grace leading to your continued support, we were also able to build a permanent block on the school premises. This significantly increased school enrollment; parents were also drawn to the safe and modern facilities. However, the aging temporary mud structures pose a risk to learners and after one building wall cracked significantly, the school inspectors demanded its demolition. This has led many of the students to transfer to government schools. The school urgently needs a new, suitable brick structure; similar to a recently completed project in Kanara Village (see video below); the estimated budget is $13,000.
We are very grateful for the way you continue to journey with us and are inviting you to impact these young lives by prayer and contributing any amount towards this project.
We know that this is a poor community! The picture on the far right shows that many, perhaps half of the children are barefoot because they do not have shoes.
“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:......Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe them?”
_ by Gloria Nderitu