- Food Distribution
- Through sponsorship from the Lion’s Club, Durbanville, we received over ten tons of rice, samp (cornmeal mush), beans, and split peas to distribute. Volunteers helped unload this massive amount of food and piled it high on 16 palettes.
- Kigo Women's Prison
- We have been supporting the efforts of one of our long-term Ugandan colleagues by soliciting donations and counseling for the women in Kigo Prison.
- HIV Positive Widows and Orphans
- Over the years we have donated substantial quantities of income-generating goods to the Akutwala Ekiro Women's group, which cares for over 400 widows and orphans in Mbuya.
- More on Vocation Development Initiatives
- Many graduates from the Family Care vocational training courses have gone on to open their own small businesses, or have pursued additional studies in the subject, some at university level.
- IT Computer Training Center Lagos
- This month Family Care started construction on the IT/Computer/Vocational Training Center for underprivileged youths, teenagers, and women in Lagos State, Nigeria.
- IT Training Center
- When the construction of Abuja began thirty 30 ago, thousands of people seeking employment made up the labor force that built this city. In Nyanya, FCT (Federal Capital Territory), a labor camp was built to shelter these workers and their families.
- Life Caring Orphanage
- Recently we began working with the “Life Caring Orphanage”, which cares for orphans from babyhood until they are grown and able to care for themselves. We’ve recently delivered 13 brand new mattresses for the orphans and donated a freezer, and other food items.
- Mother and Baby Support Group Highlights
- Micro Businesses Bring Economic Empowerment
We received sponsorship to initiate micro businesses for the members of our Mother’s Club for HIV positive women and their babies. We supplied the women with products of their choice to the value of R1,000 each.
- Mother and Baby Support Group
- Through this project we support a total of 19 HIV-positive mothers and their babies.
- OML58 Free Medical Project
- The project itself was short and powerful, but it was the end result of weeks of many long hours of intense preparation. To start with, US$60,000 needed to be raised.
- More on Free Healthcare
- While a typical free healthcare project runs for a week, our large scale projects are the result of months of planning, administration, logistics, volunteer recruitment, and a tremendous amount of coordination.
- Changing Lives
- We met Michael and his brother, Stephen, seven years ago in Mombassa. They came to our door after they had received a call from the Lord to start a work with children in one of the local slums.
- "12 Foundation Stones" Training Courses
- Since the beginning of 2004, The Family International in Port Harcourt has been running the 12 Foundation Stones Bible study course.
- More on Bible Courses
- So far, volunteers have taught 123 classes to the 475 people enrolled in the course.Student reactions to Bible courses:
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Many thanks for the Bible courses! They are all well received.
- HIV/AIDS Education
- Our school programme for HIV/AIDS education is a big hit with the children. We mix information with drama and music in a dynamic, fast-moving programme, which involves a lot of interaction with the students.
- The Three Desert Team
- A team of some of our teenagers and young volunteers embarked on a trip through the arid landscape of three deserts: the Karoo, the Namib, and the Kalahari, with a mission to make a difference in the lives of other young people.
- Limpopo––Reaching Out in the Rural Areas
- We took a trip to the northern province of Limpopo as we had been receiving requests for our programme of HIV/AIDS education from the schools there. One of our part-time volunteers comes from Limpopo, so he was very enthusiastic that we visit his own community.
- Ruth Speaks Out about Gwako School
- My name is Ruth and my husband is Joshua Abu. We both come from Ado and Apa local government, Benue state, Nigeria. I got married when I was 19 and my husband was 36. Both my parents and my husband's parents are very poor. My husband was married before with two children. His first wife passed away.
- More on Gwako School
- In the year 2001, our organization sent a team to survey Gwako village and other surrounding villages in Abuja. We discovered that many of the people living in these villages were Gwari farmers, who were systematically losing their farmlands to development.
- Clinic Update 2008
- Through the generous sponsorship of Small World and GOLF we have expanded the equipment at the Family Care Ikota Clinic in order to increase and improve the medical services provided for the community. We now have a complete dental unit, greatly increasing the dental procedures we’re now capable of.
- Ikota Community Clinic
- Family project Family Care Association sponsored construction, equipping, and commencing operations of a model free/subsidized healthcare clinic in Ikota community in Lagos state. We are working toward a plan to replicate this initiative in all six geopolitical zones of the country.
- Family Care Ikota Clinic and Pharmacy - April 2008
- Family Care Ikota Clinic and Pharmacy have been open for just over a year now and it has had a tremendous impact on the lives of the Ikota community as well as many others who have reached its doorstep.
- More on Enugu State Training Centre
- Over the years, Family project Family Care Association has developed a range of capacity-building initiatives that contribute to sustainable development. These initiatives teach business skills, research, and communications.
- Radio: Reflections
- We are also providing radio stations with an inspirational radio spot called Reflections, which has become very popular here in Uganda. Reflections contains a wealth of true stories, anecdotes, wit, wisdom, and interesting incidents in the lives of the famous, as well as the unknown.
- Radio: The NuBeat Show
- Each week for the last eight years, we have been broadcasting a free, syndicated, public service youth programme called NuBeat from seven major upcountry FM stations.
- Radio: Night Light
- Our late-night radio programme Night Light has been on air nightly for three years now. We have built up a regular listening audience from a wide cross section of Ugandan society—from students and business people to government officials. The show airs at a convenient time; between 9:30 and 11 P.M.
- Ibadan HIV/AIDS Women Empowerment Program - June 2008
- Our recent trip to Ibadan was a monumental turning point in our Women’s Empowerment Program. Through our generous sponsors we have set up and opened four new shops for our HIV/AIDS Women Empowerment program.
This program originally started with Mrs.
- Project Hope
- Project Hope currently administers the following programmes:
HIV/AIDS counseling
Bible-based education that promotes lifestyle changes that help in HIV/AIDS infection prevention
HIV/AIDS awareness seminars
Counseling
Conflict resolution
Collecting and distributing nutritional
- Incentive Programme for Mothers with HIV/AIDS
- Once an expecting mother is diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, she is taken for registration, which starts her on the necessary course of treatment to prevent transmission to the child.
- The Ik: A marginalized tribe in northeast Uganda
- We were contacted by former missionaries to the Ik to see if we would be able to help by recording Bible stories in the Icetot (pronounced i-che-tot) language for a marginalized tribe, the Ik, who live on the peaks of mountains on the Kenyan/Ugandan border escarpment.
- More on Steps to Education
- Our Steps to Education project started in 2006. Steps to Education addresses the urgent need in our modern society to reinforce positive values in children, helping educators and parents to take education beyond just academics, providing moral and character-building material for their training.
- Help for the refugees of xenophobia – June 2008
- During the recent xenophobic attacks, our Sunday Club grew as children joined us from the refugee tents, which were not far from our site.
- Love in Action versus Xenophobia – No competition!
- Instant Playground and Fun Day at the Refugee Camp
A refugee camp was set up in our area to house the victims of the xenophobia attacks that were happening here, and we were first on the scene to help. Surrounded by thick and high barbed wire, the camp is somewhat depressing.
- Thousands of Easter Chicks, Johannesburg
- Easter was suddenly upon us. We had no chocolate eggs to give out, as we usually do, to the children of the township where we work. We have used the eggs to illustrate and help the children to understand and celebrate Easter.
- Sport Against Crime
- Limpopo––Reaching Out in the Rural Areas
On a recent visit to Limpopo we were able to spend time with some of the members of the Sport Against Crime youth group. There are 120 teenagers in the group, and they have been managing with only one football between them for several months!
- More on Oyo and Kaduna Dental Projects
- A team of six medical and coordinating volunteers set off to give free dental care to the awaiting beneficiaries.
- Ibadan Dental Project
- We recently carried out another small-scale healthcare initiative in Ibadan, Oyo State.
- Zaria update – Completion of VVF building and renovation of old VVF ward
- The VVF Vocational Training Center and Recovery Ward that we began building in October 2006 is now completed and up and running. Two of our volunteers spent a week in Zaria, where we completed the final touches on the building itself, as well as on the adjacent kitchen and bathroom.
- Personal Testimony from Suwaida
- My name is Suwaida Abubukar. I come from a small village called Jardarji, very close to Daura in Katsina state, Nigeria. Female education was not emphasized when I was growing up, so I got very little or no education. When I was 16 years of age, I got married to a man almost twice my age.
- VVF Patient Support
- Vesico-Vagina Fistula (VVF) is a terribly dehumanizing condition caused by an obstructed labor. Many women with VVF are from poor backgrounds. Causes include early marriage, negligence, lack of antenatal care during pregnancy, and ignorance.
