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Rock Projects Uganda 2024 News Letter

 

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GRADUATION FOR REBECCA AND PHYLLIS KASOZI - OCTOBER 2021



EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH MAGOR and KITETIKKA
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS, KAMPALA, UGANDA

  Following the first visit of Rev Peter and Rose Kasozi to Magor in 2005, we have developed   a  significant  programme to sponsor some of the needy children at the school they run in   Uganda – many of them being orphans. A small team from Magor visited the school in summer 2007 and were very impressed with all the  improvements to the school and orphanage facilities. Also we came away confident that all the money given was  being put to very good use, and in such a sensitive way that did not discriminate against those children not receiving sponsorship. Currently about 40 children are receiving sponsorship in this way, although during the last 18 years over 150 children and young people have benefited from our sponsorship. A specific child can be sponsored for £20 a month (worth £25 with Gift Aid) and a school report will be received each term. There are also opportunities to support some of the older students who can go on to University studies, the first of whom graduated in January 2011.
 
At Christmas 2006 over £4,000 was raised to help provide bicycles for some of the children who had to walk long distances to the school each day. So much money was given that in the end a bigger coach was also able to be purchased, to replace the smaller minibus used to transport some of the younger children. In 2007/08 the focus was on raising funds to replace the old boys’ dormitory (part of the orphanage) which was housed in very primitive conditions. In just six months over £16,000 was raised that enabled the new building for 72 boys to be opened at the beginning of February 2008. Sadly a fire damaged a substantial part of the building in 2016 which has had to be rebuilt with new equipment, but no one was hurt. In 2009 help was given to complete a science laboratory for the high school, both financial and practical, when three members of our congregation visited Uganda.

The Kitetikka project also owns some 50 acres of farmland about 30 miles away which was largely bush until 2007. Clearing this very fertile land (capable of two crops a year) has enabled staple food crops of maize, sweet potatoes, beans and cassava to be harvested, greatly improving the health of the children. Owing to the high price of food in Uganda, the farm harvest has proved a very valuable boost to the school and orphanage. In time milk and meat production could also be an added benefit to the whole community. They have had a tractor and plough, but need lots of labour to keep the ground cultivated. In recent years a church, schools (Primary and Secondary), dormitories and a medical centre have been built on the farm site, where facilities in the local villages are very primitive. The latest project nearing completion is a big church and community centre capable of seating over 1,000 people.
 
As well as the schools, orphanage and farm, other churches have been established in the area around Kitetikka. Various members of the Kasozi family are now involved in the different aspects of ministry. The total amount of money raised by Magor Baptist church for our partner ministry in Uganda reached over £200,000 by December 2022. It has been  a great joy to see Peter and Rose again when they paid visits to the UK, including Magor, in December 2018, October 2019 and again in November 2022 (with daughters Phyllis and Rebecca) and May 2024.




Kitetikka primary school children.

 

Primary classroom

 

Scripture Union ‘Big Day’