A phone call with Evas

In a phone call with Project Manager Evas, here Trustee Sue shares the latest news.

Chilli
The Team have just returned from a ‘chilli safari’ - they have been visiting all the little local centres and buying up chilli.

Selling Village
This week the Team are making final arrangements to buy a piece of land on which they plan to build what we are dubbing a ‘selling village’. This was an idea of Pat Gilmer’s. The plan is to build a couple of homes with shop fronts where some of the older disabled children who have graduated from school will be able to set up small businesses.

Measuring some plots

Architect's drawing of homes with shop fronts

Special School
Also this week the Education office, church and community are having meetings to discuss the possibility of opening a new unit for multiply disabled children near to Rukungiri. It is still early days but this would be a truly wonderful thing as the vast majority of children with disabilities are unable to access any education at present.

Carpenter Training
Evas has arranged for the carpenter from Rukungiri to go to Kampala for training in making special chairs for the disabled. He has been doing this for some time, but we now have the funding (only £100 as it turns out) for him to have a week’s training.

‘Urology children’
Evas is also trying to make arrangements for a group of children with severe debilitating bladder disorders to be assessed by a Urologist in Kampala in December as there is a chance that they may be offered free operations by an American organisation which was set up to train local Paediatric Urologists in developing countries. This may not be until 2013 but we would really value your prayers for these children.

Heart children
Two of the children who were assessed recently by a cardiologist in Kampala are still very poorly (these two have multiple holes in the heart and are not expected to live). Please continue to pray for them. Evas is obviously very moved and saddened by their situation.

 Evas at a life skills clinic

This is just some of the news from the Project, no doubt we will have more details on some of these new ventures as time goes on.