To ensure the survival of the young disabled children and young adults of Jinja, Uganda it is vital that we support the programs that enforce and support the efforts of those ensuring their future. Without the necessaruy skills to continue any given career and the skills necessary to their daily lives these young people would surely perish. It is our intention to provide life skills and a means of self-suffincy for every orphan and disabled young child and young adult in the region. Without our program their means of survival would be non existant or a pittance at best. It is our intention to provide exceptional qualities of self-reliance,friendship formation,independence,critical thinking skills, self-respect and above all the ability to contribute to the community's in which they live.

     Currently, there are 15 children recieving education in agriculture and farming. The support for this has come from Innovation Children's Center in the United States and has been ongoing for a year. At this time the center is ready to graduate two of the children on the 27 of April , 2007. with spacialized skills in tailoring and handicrafts. They will require sewing machines to be able to support themselves with the skill sets that they have learned, It is our intention to provide them with such.

     There are many children with disabilities and as such we intend to aim our focus at current technology trends in the field of ICT. This path will enable the orphans to persue careers in many diffrent areas and allow them to be competetive in any job market.

 

More info from Paul's email: 

The needs of the people are genuine; we have a big problem here in our culture, people who are born disabled are viewed as a bad omen to their family's. The associated stigma resulted in abscence from school and many difficulties with survival. Many ended up in town for the possible oppertunities however, became beggers for their own survival.   Another syndrom that affected the orphans as a direct result of war and conflict in the region is HIV/AIDS. It has continued in Uganda for over thirty years and has created an influx of orphans which has increased daily. This has brought all the children from the villages to come to town and are victoms of sexual exploitation.The sex trade of these children has increased the spread of the deadly virus.   Jinja was once an industrial town which collapsed and all the men became unemployed so people turned to crime. Idleness created many criminals. Our prisons in Jinja Central alone has a population  between 1300-1500 daily due to lack of employment.   In 2003 during prison ministry and ministry to the disabled I made many friends.  Ex-prisoners and disabled shared similar needs and came up with a solutions to help one another. Without support,  the ideas were realistic and feaseable: we started with hand crafts, like one disabled gentlemen Robert Mukama used to make crafts out of banana fibres which were taken to the capital city (Kampala) for market. One Joseph Gamubaka (Disabled) had the skill of tailoring so we began training people in tailoring and knitting.   We started with helping the disabled with movement: three got wheel chairs and took back. Three others began training in tailoring.   We go out to prisons preach the gospel to the people, counsel them, show them their former mistakes, and 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 helping orphans attend school, those who are still  of school age and this effort will improve their oppertunities in life.   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 center to help our community grow.   We are hoping that when we get the support needed, or when the ICT center does takes off we will establish a regular income, this will enable us to help many and we can reduce the influx of our current unemployed homeless population.   For more imformation you will still contact me.  Love Paul