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We need a short, appealing story about the activities of BEHOD in Jinja Central. It needs to contain a description of this project as well.

Make it an appealing, nice to read, 'sexy' leaflet.
Paul will provide pictures :-D

Project: Help set up ICT training for the disabled and orphans
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We had another syndrom that affected us so much the ophans due to wars that has continued in Uganda for over thirty years and the HIV/AIDS has created the influx of orphans to increase daily in our contry which has brought all the children from the villages to come in town and become sexworkers which has increased the spread of the deadly virus. Jinja was once an industrial town which colapesed and all the male ended not employed so people turned to stealing, idle which created many criminals. Our prisons in Jinja Central alone has always a lock up of between 1300-1500 daily due to lack of employment. In 2003 as i was ministering in prison and handicapped i got friends. Some ex-prisoners and handicapped we shared our needs and we came up with a solution to see how we can help one another to come out of this situation. We did not have any support though we had the ideas: we started with hand crafts, like one brother crippled Robert Mukama he used to make crafts out of banana fibres which i used to take to the capital city (Kampala) for market and one Joseph Gamubaka (Handicapped) had the knowledge of tailoring so we started training people in tailoring and knitting. Trying to break the dependence it crippled for we never had enough support to cater for the needs. In 2005 we had a visting team that came from America and in that Groupe God being a loving Father, He never gave up with us. This lady our dear FRIEND decided to stand with us in prayer and in physical support she started supporting us. We started with helping the handicapped with movement: three got wheel chairs and took back. Three others went to training tailoring. Our activities We go out to prisons preach the Gospel to the people counsil them, show them their former mistakes, train them to start working. We do help those who are handicapped with skills that can help them to be self reliant. We have a saying "Disability is not away of not able to help yourself" so we are trying to see that they can not be failure in life but able. We are trying to help orphans go to school those who are still school going age. In the time we were going through we came to know about Nabuur.com where we met new friends who have come along side willing to Help Jinja Central get started. They are helping us to start an ICT centre so as to help our community go through. We are hoping that if we get any support, or the if the ICT centre takes off we start getting income, we will be able to help many and we see that we can reduce the influx of non-employement. We have 43 members and of those the registered members are 19: Paul Bulenzi Aaron Mawanda Joseph Gamubaaka Juliet Naiga Gidion Gabula Lamech Lubwama Lilian Kanyiginya Rhoda Bulenzi Rebecca Mawanda Samuel Mulekwa Paul Mukisa Robert Isabirye Ester Namusobya Richard Manda Robert Mukama Simon Kakaire Frolence Kyebambe Ziria Namunana Suzan Mulekwa For more imformation you will still contact me. Love Paul [/quote] Additional information (from a chat with Paul): - so far 6 people have been trained in tailoring & knitting. 3 others will complete training soon. - BEHOD has bought 4 sewing machines, to enable these 9 to produce dresses, shirts, shorts which can be sold in the local market & surrounding villages. - 13 disabled & orphans sleep in BEHOD's premises. The others are taken care of by other wellwishers in the area. 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Pelle Aardema
Write a pamphlet for Jinja that can be used for promotion
Tue, 2007/04/24 - 12:02

Dear all,

I've received an email from Paul describing the foundation of BEHOD and their work so far. I'll post it here:

Quote:

The foundation of this organisation was started on a christan background after seeing the needs of different areas among the society we are in.

The needs of the people were genuine; we had a big problem that here in our culture people who are born handicapped were looked at as a bad omen in the family so they ended up not going to school and their life of living became had many ended up in town for the green pusture where they can come on street to beg by passers.

We had another syndrom that affected us so much the ophans due to wars that has continued in Uganda for over thirty years and the HIV/AIDS has created the influx of orphans to increase daily in our contry which has brought all the children from the villages to come in town and become sexworkers which has increased the spread of the deadly virus.

Jinja was once an industrial town which colapesed and all the male ended not employed so people turned to stealing, idle which created many criminals. Our prisons in Jinja Central alone has always a lock up of between 1300-1500 daily due to lack of employment.

In 2003 as i was ministering in prison and handicapped i got friends. Some ex-prisoners and handicapped we shared our needs and we came up with a solution to see how we can help one another to come out of this situation. We did not have any support though we had the ideas: we started with hand crafts, like one brother crippled Robert Mukama he used to make crafts out of banana fibres which i used to take to the capital city (Kampala) for market and one Joseph Gamubaka (Handicapped) had the knowledge of tailoring so we started training people in tailoring and knitting.

Trying to break the dependence it crippled for we never had enough support to cater for the needs.
In 2005 we had a visting team that came from America and in that Groupe God being a loving Father, He never gave up with us. This lady our dear FRIEND decided to stand with us in prayer and in physical support she started supporting us. We started with helping the handicapped with movement: three got wheel chairs and took back. Three others went to training tailoring.

Our activities
We go out to prisons preach the Gospel to the people counsil them, show them their former mistakes, train them to start working.

We do help those who are handicapped with skills that can help them to be self reliant. We have a saying "Disability is not away of not able to help yourself" so we are trying to see that they can not be failure in life but able.

We are trying to help orphans go to school those who are still school going age.

In the time we were going through we came to know about Nabuur.com where we met new friends who have come along side willing to Help Jinja Central get started. They are helping us to start an ICT centre so as to help our community go through.

We are hoping that if we get any support, or the if the ICT centre takes off we start getting income, we will be able to help many and we see that we can reduce the influx of non-employement.

We have 43 members and of those the registered members are 19:
Paul Bulenzi
Aaron Mawanda
Joseph Gamubaaka
Juliet Naiga
Gidion Gabula
Lamech Lubwama
Lilian Kanyiginya
Rhoda Bulenzi
Rebecca Mawanda
Samuel Mulekwa
Paul Mukisa
Robert Isabirye
Ester Namusobya
Richard Manda
Robert Mukama
Simon Kakaire
Frolence Kyebambe
Ziria Namunana
Suzan Mulekwa

For more imformation you will still contact me.
Love Paul

Additional information (from a chat with Paul):
- so far 6 people have been trained in tailoring & knitting. 3 others will complete training soon.
- BEHOD has bought 4 sewing machines, to enable these 9 to produce dresses, shirts, shorts which can be sold in the local market & surrounding villages.
- 13 disabled & orphans sleep in BEHOD's premises. The others are taken care of by other wellwishers in the area.

Pelle

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Paul Bulenzi
Re: Write a pamphlet for Jinja that can be used for promotion
Sat, 2007/10/06 - 09:40

Hallo Neighbours,
Am grateful with all that you are doing with all the contributions i do request that you put also here.

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The Owen Falls Dam, provided abundant hydroelectric power, for the many Asian-owned factories, in the industrial town of Jinja. Sadly, however, the infamous military dictator Iddi Amin's murderous tyranny, during which the country's Asian population was expelled from Uganda en masse, ruined this East African paradise. And it hit the low point, when it became one of the epicentres, of the African HIV/AIDS pandemic. Over the years, as its current leader, President Yoweri Museveni, has brought stability to the country, Uganda has made an astonishing economic recovery - and it has tackled its HIV/AIDS problem head on: by acknowledging it openly, and through extensive education, has succeeded in bringing down the once-high infection rates, to one of the lowest on the African continent. And from the new Uganda , comes a wonderful story of hope, in which online volunteers from the online volunteer website www.nabuur.com are helping Jinja Central's HIV/AIDS orphans and physically-challenged, to learn vocational skills, such as: ... , ,.... , ...... , and IT skills, in a small community-run project. The online volunteers were able to get a Dutch college....... to donate computers - which are on the high seas en route to Uganda! The Jinja Central project, developed initially, out of the prison missionionary work, of local lay preacher Paul..... [quote] Pelle Aardema wrote: Dear all, I've received an email from Paul describing the foundation of BEHOD and their work so far. I'll post it here: [quote] The foundation of this organisation was started on a christan background after seeing the needs of different areas among the society we are in. The needs of the people were genuine; we had a big problem that here in our culture people who are born handicapped were looked at as a bad omen in the family so they ended up not going to school and their life of living became had many ended up in town for the green pusture where they can come on street to beg by passers. We had another syndrom that affected us so much the ophans due to wars that has continued in Uganda for over thirty years and the HIV/AIDS has created the influx of orphans to increase daily in our contry which has brought all the children from the villages to come in town and become sexworkers which has increased the spread of the deadly virus. Jinja was once an industrial town which colapesed and all the male ended not employed so people turned to stealing, idle which created many criminals. Our prisons in Jinja Central alone has always a lock up of between 1300-1500 daily due to lack of employment. In 2003 as i was ministering in prison and handicapped i got friends. Some ex-prisoners and handicapped we shared our needs and we came up with a solution to see how we can help one another to come out of this situation. We did not have any support though we had the ideas: we started with hand crafts, like one brother crippled Robert Mukama he used to make crafts out of banana fibres which i used to take to the capital city (Kampala) for market and one Joseph Gamubaka (Handicapped) had the knowledge of tailoring so we started training people in tailoring and knitting. Trying to break the dependence it crippled for we never had enough support to cater for the needs. In 2005 we had a visting team that came from America and in that Groupe God being a loving Father, He never gave up with us. This lady our dear FRIEND decided to stand with us in prayer and in physical support she started supporting us. We started with helping the handicapped with movement: three got wheel chairs and took back. Three others went to training tailoring. Our activities We go out to prisons preach the Gospel to the people counsil them, show them their former mistakes, train them to start working. We do help those who are handicapped with skills that can help them to be self reliant. We have a saying "Disability is not away of not able to help yourself" so we are trying to see that they can not be failure in life but able. We are trying to help orphans go to school those who are still school going age. In the time we were going through we came to know about Nabuur.com where we met new friends who have come along side willing to Help Jinja Central get started. They are helping us to start an ICT centre so as to help our community go through. We are hoping that if we get any support, or the if the ICT centre takes off we start getting income, we will be able to help many and we see that we can reduce the influx of non-employement. We have 43 members and of those the registered members are 19: Paul Bulenzi Aaron Mawanda Joseph Gamubaaka Juliet Naiga Gidion Gabula Lamech Lubwama Lilian Kanyiginya Rhoda Bulenzi Rebecca Mawanda Samuel Mulekwa Paul Mukisa Robert Isabirye Ester Namusobya Richard Manda Robert Mukama Simon Kakaire Frolence Kyebambe Ziria Namunana Suzan Mulekwa For more imformation you will still contact me. Love Paul [/quote] Additional information (from a chat with Paul): - so far 6 people have been trained in tailoring & knitting. 3 others will complete training soon. - BEHOD has bought 4 sewing machines, to enable these 9 to produce dresses, shirts, shorts which can be sold in the local market & surrounding villages. - 13 disabled & orphans sleep in BEHOD's premises. 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Kofi Thompson
Re: Write a pamphlet for Jinja that can be used for promotion
Sat, 2007/10/06 - 19:57

Quote:

Kofi Thompson wrote: Hello Pelle and Paul, this is a draft. Before I continue, please let me know what you think of the begining. I will incorporate your suggestions - as well as that of the other neighbours. Please feel free to add or subtract to it - it is our joint effort!:

ONLINE VOLUNTEERS BRING HOPE TO UGANDAN TOWN'S PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED!

When Britain's Second World War Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill described Uganda as the "Pearl of Africa", the East African nation was then a prosperous country, that was a tourist mecca, popular with Europe's middle classes, as an African wildlife safari destination.

The Owen Falls Dam, provided abundant hydroelectric power, for the many Asian-owned factories, in the industrial town of Jinja. Sadly, however, the infamous military dictator Iddi Amin's murderous tyranny, during which the country's Asian population was expelled from Uganda en masse, ruined this East African paradise. And it hit the low point, when it became one of the epicentres, of the African HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Over the years, as its current leader, President Yoweri Museveni, has brought stability to the country, Uganda has made an astonishing economic recovery - and it has tackled its HIV/AIDS problem head on: by acknowledging it openly, and through extensive education, has succeeded in bringing down the once-high infection rates, to one of the lowest on the African continent.

And from the new Uganda , comes a wonderful story of hope, in which online volunteers from the online volunteer website www.nabuur.com are helping Jinja Central's HIV/AIDS orphans and physically-challenged, to learn vocational skills, such as: ... , ,.... , ...... , and IT skills, in a small community-run project. The online volunteers were able to get a Dutch college....... to donate computers - which are on the high seas en route to Uganda!

The Jinja Central project, developed initially, out of the prison missionionary work, of local lay preacher Paul.....

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Pelle Aardema wrote:
Dear all,

I've received an email from Paul describing the foundation of BEHOD and their work so far. I'll post it here:

Quote:

The foundation of this organisation was started on a christan background after seeing the needs of different areas among the society we are in.

The needs of the people were genuine; we had a big problem that here in our culture people who are born handicapped were looked at as a bad omen in the family so they ended up not going to school and their life of living became had many ended up in town for the green pusture where they can come on street to beg by passers.

We had another syndrom that affected us so much the ophans due to wars that has continued in Uganda for over thirty years and the HIV/AIDS has created the influx of orphans to increase daily in our contry which has brought all the children from the villages to come in town and become sexworkers which has increased the spread of the deadly virus.

Jinja was once an industrial town which colapesed and all the male ended not employed so people turned to stealing, idle which created many criminals. Our prisons in Jinja Central alone has always a lock up of between 1300-1500 daily due to lack of employment.

In 2003 as i was ministering in prison and handicapped i got friends. Some ex-prisoners and handicapped we shared our needs and we came up with a solution to see how we can help one another to come out of this situation. We did not have any support though we had the ideas: we started with hand crafts, like one brother crippled Robert Mukama he used to make crafts out of banana fibres which i used to take to the capital city (Kampala) for market and one Joseph Gamubaka (Handicapped) had the knowledge of tailoring so we started training people in tailoring and knitting.

Trying to break the dependence it crippled for we never had enough support to cater for the needs.
In 2005 we had a visting team that came from America and in that Groupe God being a loving Father, He never gave up with us. This lady our dear FRIEND decided to stand with us in prayer and in physical support she started supporting us. We started with helping the handicapped with movement: three got wheel chairs and took back. Three others went to training tailoring.

Our activities
We go out to prisons preach the Gospel to the people counsil them, show them their former mistakes, train them to start working.

We do help those who are handicapped with skills that can help them to be self reliant. We have a saying "Disability is not away of not able to help yourself" so we are trying to see that they can not be failure in life but able.

We are trying to help orphans go to school those who are still school going age.

In the time we were going through we came to know about Nabuur.com where we met new friends who have come along side willing to Help Jinja Central get started. They are helping us to start an ICT centre so as to help our community go through.

We are hoping that if we get any support, or the if the ICT centre takes off we start getting income, we will be able to help many and we see that we can reduce the influx of non-employement.

We have 43 members and of those the registered members are 19:
Paul Bulenzi
Aaron Mawanda
Joseph Gamubaaka
Juliet Naiga
Gidion Gabula
Lamech Lubwama
Lilian Kanyiginya
Rhoda Bulenzi
Rebecca Mawanda
Samuel Mulekwa
Paul Mukisa
Robert Isabirye
Ester Namusobya
Richard Manda
Robert Mukama
Simon Kakaire
Frolence Kyebambe
Ziria Namunana
Suzan Mulekwa

For more imformation you will still contact me.
Love Paul

Additional information (from a chat with Paul):
- so far 6 people have been trained in tailoring & knitting. 3 others will complete training soon.
- BEHOD has bought 4 sewing machines, to enable these 9 to produce dresses, shirts, shorts which can be sold in the local market & surrounding villages.
- 13 disabled & orphans sleep in BEHOD's premises. The others are taken care of by other wellwishers in the area.

Pelle

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Kofi Thompson
Re: Write a pamphlet for Jinja that can be used for promotion
Sun, 2007/10/07 - 09:23

Hello Pelle,

I seem to have succeeded in giving the world the impression that that posting of yours above this one, was from me - when it is not. Do remove my picture - so that it does not give people the wrong impression! It was my fumbling and lack of IT skills, that led to it.

And have you got in touch with African Orphanaid, yet? Please do - it might make a huge difference to Paul and his colleagues' work in Jinja!

I will put writing the pamphlet on hold and wait for other neighbours to comment on the introduction, and add or remove stuff they are not comfortable with. It might very well be that some of my fellow Africans, may not like references to those who once occupied our continent - in which case I apologise to them: and they are free to remove the offending parts! Regards to all at Jinja Central.

Best wishes,
Kofi

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Dennis Argall
Re: Write a pamphlet for Jinja that can be used for promotion
Sun, 2007/10/07 - 13:40

I have only a moment to write before being away from computer for a week. Can I urge that text be simple and clear and perhaps be drawn from blog writing? You have to get people's attention swiftly and immediately.

best wishes

Dennis

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Kofi Thompson
Re: Write a pamphlet for Jinja that can be used for promotion
Sun, 2007/10/07 - 15:35

Hello Dennis,

Hope I catch you before you disappear for a week. Its not meant for the blog - its for a pamphlet. But when you say "blog writing", is that a specialised kind of writing? Where does one get taught this specialised skill, on the web?

And if you still think it needs to set a different tone, right from the start, even if its meant for a pamphlet, let me have an example of what would grab your attention, please.

Going away for a family break? If yes, enjoy your well-deserved break, Dennis!

Best wishes,

Kofi.

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Sonny Nyeko J.
Re: Write a pamphlet for Jinja that can be used for promotion
Tue, 2007/10/09 - 23:30

Dear Kofi and colleagues,
Thanks you the initiative for the pamphlet. It's a brilliant idea. However, I will be grateful if you clarified on the target group for this pamphlet. Besides, its good to know history or the past events but remember when it comes to development all stakeholders have to be on board and involved without offending any part. Perhaps it could also desirable to know that Uganda is at the moment undergoing some peace reconciliatory consultations in some parts of the cpuntry.

Kofi, I thought the first draft was good only that its too lengthy. What I considered of more value to this project was your ending remarks. Otherwise I comment the Directors for starting with the proposed courses in their menu.

God bless you.

Sonny

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Sonny Nyeko J.
Re: Write a pamphlet for Jinja that can be used for promotion
Tue, 2007/10/09 - 23:40

Pelle and Paul,

Your initiatives have been marvelous so far. Actually, perhaps about to say a success story. However, my concern is sustainability. Do we have any contigency plans in place? What about maintenance? If I am lacking some information may be its another issue. But that should be clear for the continuity of the project as we move forward to improve it further with growing interest in it and the ever increasing changes in technology.

Sonny

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Pelle Aardema
Re: Write a pamphlet for Jinja that can be used for promotion
Tue, 2007/10/09 - 23:56

Dear all,

sorry for taking some time to reply.
the last few days have been quite busy (running, working, making a video :-D )

Will be back on track in a few days!
Thanks for all the ideas, work and enthusiasm!!

Pelle :-D

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Kofi Thompson
Re: Write a pamphlet for Jinja that can be used for promotion
Wed, 2007/10/10 - 08:31

Hello Soony, its a joint effort so incorporate your ideas in it! Best wishes to you!

Quote:

Sonny Nyeko J. wrote:
Dear Kofi and colleagues,
Thanks you the initiative for the pamphlet. It's a brilliant idea. However, I will be grateful if you clarified on the target group for this pamphlet. Besides, its good to know history or the past events but remember when it comes to development all stakeholders have to be on board and involved without offending any part. Perhaps it could also desirable to know that Uganda is at the moment undergoing some peace reconciliatory consultations in some parts of the cpuntry.

Kofi, I thought the first draft was good only that its too lengthy. What I considered of more value to this project was your ending remarks. Otherwise I comment the Directors for starting with the proposed courses in their menu.

God bless you.

Sonny

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Kofi Thompson
Re: Write a pamphlet for Jinja that can be used for promotion
Wed, 2007/10/10 - 21:15

Quote:

Kofi Thompson wrote:
Hello Sonny, its a joint effort so incorporate your ideas in it! Best wishes to you!
Quote:

Sonny Nyeko J. wrote:
Dear Kofi and colleagues,
Thanks you the initiative for the pamphlet. It's a brilliant idea. However, I will be grateful if you clarified on the target group for this pamphlet. Besides, its good to know history or the past events but remember when it comes to development all stakeholders have to be on board and involved without offending any part. Perhaps it could also desirable to know that Uganda is at the moment undergoing some peace reconciliatory consultations in some parts of the cpuntry.

Kofi, I thought the first draft was good only that its too lengthy. What I considered of more value to this project was your ending remarks. Otherwise I comment the Directors for starting with the proposed courses in their menu.

God bless you.

Sonny

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Sonny Nyeko J.
Re: Write a pamphlet for Jinja that can be used for promotion
Wed, 2007/10/17 - 21:05

Hello Kofi

Expect my draft for incorporation soon, perhaps by Sunday evening. Thank you for your effort.
Sonny

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Pelle Aardema
Re: Write a pamphlet for Jinja that can be used for promotion
Wed, 2007/10/17 - 21:44

Thanks Sonny,

I'm looking forward to see your contribution, as is Kofi, I think.

You've also asked about the sustainability of this project. You can find more about that subject in the discussion about the business plan. Paul and the BEHOD board have taken all the ideas provided there and are working on a new business plan now. I expect to see a first draft this weekend.

To Kofi:
Thanks for the first try. I know it's most difficult to start writing, commenting is easier :). I must agree with Sonny, that the document seems a bit lengthy. On the other hand, the information about Uganda's history can provide valuable background for those who don't know about Uganda or Africa at all.

In the meantime, Nabuur text writer Jessica, has also written a story about Jinja, which is currently featured on the homepage (link))

Lots of ideas... if only I could choose.

:-D

Pelle

discussion about the business plan
link)
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Kofi Thompson
Re: Write a pamphlet for Jinja that can be used for promotion
Wed, 2007/10/17 - 23:04

Thanks to all of you for the invaluable suggestions, you have made, thus far. I will take them all on board and hopefully, if I go to the countryside this weekend, work them into the final draft.

And it was very refreshing hearing you on Skype today, Sonny. I am sold on its value for Nabuur.com village projects - we must make use of such IT 'platforms', to brainstorm and move our projects forward faster! If any one else wants to share their Nabuur.com experiences, my Skype ID is: kofi.thompson - and I'd be delighted to hear from you!

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Kofi Thompson
Re: Write a pamphlet for Jinja that can be used for promotion
Wed, 2007/10/17 - 23:17

Well, Pelle, you have a genius in residence, in Jessica! And now you will not have to worry about grumpy old Kofi Thompson walking away in a huff, because busy people don't respond immediately to him - you have got Jessica: whose piece is perfect!

I vote that we accept her work for the pamphlet - it really is very very good! So, sadly, there will be no excuse for me to shirk work on the farm this weekend, by saying: "I have a deadline to meet, for submitting an article to an organisation abroad" - which is always guaranteed to get me out of work, entailing walking for miles on end, in the forest: when I'd rather put my feet up, and have fascinating conversations with my dear dogs! Congratulations, Jessica - its a brilliant piece!

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