Veggies

Lettuce, lettuce and more lettuce, three kinds of it!! We need to eat it everyday for lunch and dinner to keep up with how much is growing!! Beans, sunflowers, carrots are all coming along well and cucumbers are being planted this weekend. Success!!

Little Helpers

Mazzy and her friends, Ayana and Moses (Wiebe, their family is visiting Kibaale for 2 weeks), are helping out on laundry day! Maybe not a huge help, but they had a lot of fun!!

 

Baby Immunizations

Last month I had the chance to join our clinic staff on Baby Immunizations. Over a hundred little babies!!! 

Three times a month our staff go into a neighboring village to weigh, immunize and give vitamins to the babies, and also vitamins to all the children that come. It's somehow still surprising to me how often you see such young children carrying and caring for babies! I was happy to see that they were being cared for too.

This traveling clinic is a huge blessing to the families in the 3 villages that we rotate going to, since it would take them hours to walk into Kibaale. For me, seeing how much our staff also love this program was my favorite part. They were so happy to be going and so helpful to the overwhelming amount of people, and this is all after a full day’s work!! We love our staff!!

Seeds

Due to the very long dry season (May-October!!) the number of people coming to our Community Services office for famine relief, which is about a month’s supply of staple food, has increased.

Two of our staff members came up with the idea of our Community Services department running a seed bank program.

The idea is that families will come now for seeds to grow during the rainy season, making it a much larger crop for their family to store and eat in the next dry season. After the harvest, they give extra seeds back to the bank.

The interest from the community was very high; it was great coming out and seeing everyone very excited!!

Our boys - October '09

Finn - it's more than a mischievous 'glimmer' in his eye! Lucky for him, he's pretty adorable!!!

 

Joel - our very responsible oldest child was trying to live on the wild side and grow his hair long. He gave in though and cut it this weekend, we think he's pretty cute either way!

Frogs & Puppies

Yesterday our kids went to the farm and saw that there were hundreds of frogs around our new fish pond. Of course Avin and Finn each chose one to play with for the rest of the day. They named them (Sparky & Cassy), made houses for them, caught bugs for them to eat, fed them water and handled them A LOT!!! They put them safely in their homes for the night and excitedly ran out first thing this morning to find them still alive, we were pretty surprised!! They again played with them all day until around 3pm when we said they had to set them free.

Cassy

Sparky

At 4pm the kids walk in with a puppy!!! Who they have apparently named Joey. Our guard dog had puppies a few weeks ago and the kids often walk to the shed to check on them and play with them for a few minutes. This is the first time one has come home, I guess they were missing the frogs!! They said the guard said they could keep it overnight, but I think we'll walk the sweet little puppy back home and see what tomorrow brings!

Avin - October '09

Adorable little lady, inside and out!!

Special Gifts

One of the things we love about Kibaale's sponsorship program is Special Gifts. These are huge blessings to our students and theirs families; gift baskets (food and supplies that lasts 2 months), bicycles, shoes, clothing, water collectors and even kitchens, latrines or homes!! 

Jamie & Renée at their sponsor child, Grace's home.

Jamie & Renée had their family and friends donate money towards "Where Most Needed" special gifts. Our staff who visit our student's homes regularly know where the highest needs are and give the gifts accordingly. This was a huge blessing to so many students!! 

Kibaale's CHRISTMAS SPECIAL GIFT List

Gift Basket	$27.50
Double Gift Basket	$55.00
Bed Set (mattress, blanket, 2 sheets)	$55.00
Water Collector	$80.00
Goat	$35.00
Cow	$250.00
Primary shoes and clothes	$30.00
Secondary shoes and clothes	$40.00
2 Mosquito Nets	$15.00
Bicycle	$90.00
2000L Water Tank	$640.00
Shoes	$20.00
Reusable Feminine Products	$50.00
Secondary Textbooks	$50.00
Antibiotics (for 10 children)	$30.00
Housing (house, kitchen, latrine)	Approx 2-$5,000

You can also see this list online at www.kibaale.net, or email Jenny Nel (jnel@papcs.com) if you have any questions about donating a special gift to your sponsor child, or a "Where Most Needed" gift.