Uganda Missions Trip 2010
Six from Westview are planning a service project in Uganda for two weeks early in 2010 (Jan. 30-Feb. 13). The group, headed by Arlene Fjellman, will be working with Juna Amagara Ministries where Arlene helped to set up The Amagara School of Fashion and Drapery Design in 2003 to give young orphan women the opportunity to learn highly marketable skills at an affordable tuition. (The Rev. Ben Tumuheirwe, founder of Juna Amagara Ministries, spoke at Westview October 6, 2009.)
The group will be spending a week in the mountains at The Amagara Children’s Home. where there are 28 children ranging in age from eight to eighteen who have found a loving, nurturing and safe environment in which to grow. The group will spend time with the children, reading to them, helping with homework, eating with them and helping out around the orphanage.
From there, the six proceed to a village in the mountains to help with ongoing construction on the Kishanje Learning Advancement Center where the secondary school has completed its first full year with 90 students and the primary school with 150 children. The Community Center, used heavily in its first six months is currently being expanded while a cistern for rain water catchment has been installed. In addition, the vocational school there graduated its first 15 students with two-year diplomas.
Members of the group are: Arlene Fjellman, Margaret Stone, Melissa Stimple, Connie Hoogeveen, Chad Hatting, and Scott Rhone
The Pancake Breakfast on Sunday, December 13 after the Children’s Christmas program will be a fundraiser for the group. The Westview mission fund has contributed $500 to each of them to help with their expenses of upwards of $2500: airfare ($1500), room and board ($800), passport ($100), and vaccinations (approx. $150). Donation checks may be made out to Westview Church and placed in an envelope marked Uganda.
