The Story So Far
This photograph was taken on the first visit to Kyehimba school. The classroom was a wooden structure with corrugated iron roof. It had dirt floors and barely any facilities.
This photograph was taken on a trip in 2018. The classroom at Kyehimba now has brick and plastered walls, windows, concrete floors and desks. Thanks to folk who have faithfully supported the work of this school.
This is written by Nigel Whitaker - the joint founder of the project.
In 2007 our daughter went on a mission trip to Uganda where she was exposed to several ministries. One of these was Parental Care Ministries. The leader of this ministry visited N Wales in 2008 and invited us to take a team. After taking the second team out to Uganda in 2010 we realised that we needed to either leave it at that or seriously commit to the ministry in Uganda for the long haul. We saw the amazing work being done in providing needy children from impoverished backgrounds with a good quality education albeit with extremely limited resources. Seeing the potential motivated us to establish PCM UK under the charity umbrella of Emmanuel Church, Llandudno and the recruiting of supporters. We adopted two of the primary schools on which to focus our support and it has been a privilege and delight to see these schools developing as a result. The ministry grew with teams going out each year until the death of my wife, Marian in 2018. Around this time Emmanuel Church expressed the desire for the ministry to become a separate entity with its own charitable status. At the same time concerns about the management of the ministry in Uganda were growing which we were unable to properly resolve. These changes, both in Africa and here in the UK, led me to see that a management team was needed here in the UK. Several mature and committed ex team members offered their services which led to the formation of the new charity, Christian Hope Uganda (UK).
Some of the achievements through UK funding over the last decade:
Classrooms, dormitories, toilet blocks and equipment have been funded.
Water harvesting has been enabled.
Teachers' pay has been subsidised.
Self sustainability projects have been developed - piggeries, woodlands, livestock.
Relationships have been forged.
We have also supported a ministry reaching out to the grown-up children of pastors who have sometimes been disadvantaged due to the work of their parents, leading to many going off the rails. It has been thrilling to hear stories of restoration as these young people are given a space to talk and training in skills to enable them to earn a living.
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