Here is a new video introducing the YES Uganda programs. You can watch it by clicking on this new video update!

With seeds and training by the HALISK–Welthungerhelf project that partnered with us these two ladies are going to be able to earn money to support their families. Cabbage and onions sell well here. The lady with the onions is physically challenged but it has not discouraged her. Many others also are learning how to farm […]

The original thoughts for a vocational school grew out of the need for a direction for the older kids who age out of the Rescue Home in Kasusu. We are finding that the kids leave the structured environment of the home with only a minimum of scholastic education. They return to their home area and […]

Hello everyone, It has been a very long time since I last blogged. I had surgery on June 8th with two discs being removed in my neck and replaced with plastic and then two flat bars were screwed between C 5 to C7. It has been a remarkable surgery and I am now much stronger […]

Our rainy season has been strong and our program to help families get stronger with better agriculture has been in full swing. We work with a German organization, Whelthungerhilfe, that has been a huge contributor towards the agricultural part of our program. We are helping over 300 families who are given seeds and gardening tools […]

These are the shots of our new recreation/study building. It is almost completed with only the benches around the outside that will double as lockers for kid’s things to be finished. We hope that soon we will have a grand opening and blessing of our building. We will keep all informed.

The rescue home recreation building is coming along beautifully. The children took me on a tour to see what was being done. I love this children so much!

We are saddened to share that on the morning of the 21st of January 2013 our young man Patrick Magume has died. He is the boy we wrote about with the sad face and later with a smile. We have been working so hard to save him. We gave him anything he wanted to eat […]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all, I am very happy with the progress on the new study/school building. The walls have started to go up as well as the roof, and we should have photos for the grand opening soon! Here are a few more photos of the progress:

The rains have been huge so things have been progressing a bit slowly. The square woodbeams in the photos are cement forms and so are the columns. The one on top is called a ring beam and the wooden poles that seem like a wall are just for support while the cement dries. The walls […]