Today I spoke with Sara Sebyala, director of the TOUCH program in Uganda. Sara has just finished a series of home visits throughout the Kitintale area of Kampala. The slum of Kitintale is home to over 17,000 people.
Families in Kitintale have typically only been able to afford one meal a day. Some of the children at Calvary Temple School there have told us that meal was often only a cup of tea.
Now, because the cost of food has continued to rise, families are cutting back to just one meal every two days. Can you imagine eating just one meager meal every two days? And that so-called meal is just a cup of tea, or thin porridge.
Even the school has had to cut back. Where students once had two meals each day, now there is only enough money to provide a lunch of posho and beans.
Sara's desire is to provide that second meal again, but she can't do it without your help! Can you skip one meal a month - or how about skipping a gourmet coffee now and then? We need people to commit to monthly gifts - any amount will help! You can make a monthly recurring gift from our main site - www.friendsoftouch.org.
You can also make a one-time gift to feed children here:
Friday, June 5, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Call for Volunteers
We need 5 -10 volunteers to help as Sara Sebyala comes in June. Sara will be bringing about 200 fresh child profiles, but before we can find sponsors for these kids, we need to process the profiles and get them into our system.
We also need people to PRAY with us - as we process the profiles, we pray for each child by name. If typing isn't your thing, and you want to help - this is a powerful way to do that!
Location & Time:
The Friends of TOUCH office at Lighthouse Worship Center
4299 George Washington Memorial Hwy., Hayes, VA 23072
Wednesday, June 10 & Thursday, June 11, from 9am - 4pm
You wouldn't have to be there the whole time - but please do call me as soon as you can to let me know your availability: 757-272-0979
Some of the work will be via online forms, but because of privacy concerns we need the data to stay in our offices. We have three computers available, so if you have a laptop, bring it.
We want to get several people working on this each day. That way we can rotate through the process, and give folks a break. Reading the children's stories takes an emotional toll, and we need a team of people who will work diligently and prayerfully over this two-day period to give us the profiles we need to get these children sponsored.
Sponsorship funds pay for tuition, and provide food at the school. Inflation has caused the price of pasho - the staple food at school - to double since January. What that means is that the school has reduced meals from two to just one meal a day. If we can get an additional 200 children sponsored, food will not be an issue. The children will be more likely to stay healthy, they will attend school more frequently, and they will perform better in school. Some of the TOUCH kids are HIV positive, and proper nutrition is a life or death issue for them. They can't keep their medicines down without food. By helping us prepare these profiles, you will literally be saving lives.
Skills needed:
An eye for detail, patience, good typing skills, ability to take information and write a clear, concise, and compelling story. DETAIL oriented people needed. Use MS Word, fill out forms accurately, experience with database needed for some tasks. Did I mention we need attention to detail?
- Type child details into the computer
- Write public narratives
- Process Photos & match with profiles
- Create a profile for each child
- Enter each profile into Bento database
- Print profiles
- Print tracking sheet for each child
Thank you for helping!
-Kay
We also need people to PRAY with us - as we process the profiles, we pray for each child by name. If typing isn't your thing, and you want to help - this is a powerful way to do that!
Location & Time:
The Friends of TOUCH office at Lighthouse Worship Center
4299 George Washington Memorial Hwy., Hayes, VA 23072
Wednesday, June 10 & Thursday, June 11, from 9am - 4pm
You wouldn't have to be there the whole time - but please do call me as soon as you can to let me know your availability: 757-272-0979
Some of the work will be via online forms, but because of privacy concerns we need the data to stay in our offices. We have three computers available, so if you have a laptop, bring it.
We want to get several people working on this each day. That way we can rotate through the process, and give folks a break. Reading the children's stories takes an emotional toll, and we need a team of people who will work diligently and prayerfully over this two-day period to give us the profiles we need to get these children sponsored.
Sponsorship funds pay for tuition, and provide food at the school. Inflation has caused the price of pasho - the staple food at school - to double since January. What that means is that the school has reduced meals from two to just one meal a day. If we can get an additional 200 children sponsored, food will not be an issue. The children will be more likely to stay healthy, they will attend school more frequently, and they will perform better in school. Some of the TOUCH kids are HIV positive, and proper nutrition is a life or death issue for them. They can't keep their medicines down without food. By helping us prepare these profiles, you will literally be saving lives.
Skills needed:
An eye for detail, patience, good typing skills, ability to take information and write a clear, concise, and compelling story. DETAIL oriented people needed. Use MS Word, fill out forms accurately, experience with database needed for some tasks. Did I mention we need attention to detail?
- Type child details into the computer
- Write public narratives
- Process Photos & match with profiles
- Create a profile for each child
- Enter each profile into Bento database
- Print profiles
- Print tracking sheet for each child
Thank you for helping!
-Kay
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