On Monday September 19th, i left for Modesto. Bill and Shirley gave me a ride. I was scheduled to spend the first three days with Pastor Tracy and Mary and the then spend the rest with Ben and family.
It was great to meet all my friends in Modesto. It is amazing how God connects people and how we are reminded again and again that this is a small world.
Pastor Tracy and Mary with some people from Brethren Community Fellowship had been going to Uganda since 2003. They partner with Kabale Trinity college. As God would have it, in 2008, while on their trip to Uganda, Tracy and Mary felt like going to Google and find out more about what is going on in Kabale, Uganda, there they found Kabale House of Hope and wanted to know more. They eventually got in touch with me and together with Chad and Maria came to visit Kabale House of Hope.Since then the relationship between Kabale House of Hope and Modesto has grown from year to year with more people in Modesto picking interest to at least sponsor a child at House of Hope. It is interesting that most of the children sponsored by Modesto friends go to Kabale Trinity college!
I had a good time with most of my friends here and it was good to make new connections and friends. Our main objective as part of the short term goal for House of Hope is to start projects that will help House of Hope be self sustaining. The priority will be on purchasing sweater weaving machines at least two to begin with. These will help us to generate funds from selling the sweaters. With most school being friends with us since we send there our students, we have ready market. Not only will these machines generate funds to help run the operational costs of House of Hope but they will help teach a skill to our children in the orphanage which can help them to make a living. Each machine costs $5000.
We also plan to purchase land on which we can grow our own food. Available land will cost $4000 per acre, at the moment, we need three acres to four acres of land where we can plant maize (corn), beans, Matoke (banana plantation) and vegetables.
If you want to know how you can help, please let us know. You can write to me at: jbakashaba@gmail.com or call Ben Miller at 209-499-8903
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