find out more at: www.missiondirect.org/uganda


What you will be doing You will be helping to build one of these orphan homes. And you will pay a visit to one that is already completed, to see the children flourishing in their new families. Another group you will be serving is the HIV/AIDS community. Whole families suffer from the virus. Their grass-thatched homes are often close to collapse, as they lack the money or strength to have them repaired. You will be bringing these communities much needed gifts of food and moral support.


The gift of a new family


Kumi in North East Uganda has a whole ‘orphan generation’: thousands of children that it struggles to cope with. Again and again the population in this area has been decimated: by wars and conflict, Idi Amin’s brutal misrule and then, most recently, HIV/AIDS.


You will be building new community homes for some of these children - giving them the best possible gift you could give to anybody: a new family.


The Project:


Kumi orphanages The charity COHAD, Children of Hope and Dignity, is planning to build forty homes for the orphaned children. Each one houses eight or more children and is tended to by a local widow who acts as ‘house mother’. COHAD also provides food, education and healthcare. These are more like real homes than institutions; they are the chance to offer these children the love and nurture they have been denied.


Panoramic Africa You will visit the spectacular Murchison Falls Game Park, going on a short safari and climbing a mountain in the spectacular Elgon range. These are the sort of views you see in films like Out of Africa, so make sure you bring your camera.


Trip dates


23 June to


8 July 2012


14 July to


29 July 2012


19 Aug £1,595*


4 Aug to


29 Sept to


13 Oct MEDICAL


Contribution £1,495 (*Except £1,595 due to travel costs)


Trip contribution is requested to cover all expenses. All further money you raise goes directly to the project.


UGANDA - KUMI


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