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Milele Rafiki (Forever Friend) Bangles

http://www.charitygiftmarket.com/milele-rafiki-forever-friend-bangles/

Your purchase of this bracelet st will help buy uniforms for the 31 girls at the Think Humanity Girl's Hostel in Uganda. Domestic uniform includes a t-shirt, skirt and dress.

These colorful bangle bracelets are called "Milele Rafiki" because you can buy one for yourself and one for your rafiki (friend.) Pronounced: Mah-lay-lay Rah-fee-kee. Included in the bangles are mixtures of different types of beads. Beads are made from recycled paper, bone, painted clay, different seeds, glass and some have charms. All bangles have a Think Humanity paper bead to identify who you are supporting. There are small silver metal beads between the larger beads. The beads are all strung on strong elastic.

Try to specify whether you have small, medium or large wrists. Anklet size is also available. All donations from sales of the Milele Rafiki bangles will go towards the purchase of domestic uniforms for the 31 girls at the Think Humanity Girls’ Hostel in Hoima, Uganda. We need to sell 24 sets to purchase the uniforms.

Please visit Charity Gift Market at

http://www.charitygiftmarket.com/think-humanity/?sort=newest 

Think Humanity Girls' Hostel in Hoima Uganda



Water is Life in Uganda- Think Humanity

Well Update and  possibilities for future wells. June 30, 2012

Think Humanity Clean Water Project

Thanks John Bagisha, Water and Sanitation for Think Humanity. We have kept you busy!

Great news in Kanenakumbe:
Kats Construction have gone down 15 meters and found lots of water! They will continue down to about 20 meters. They use a generator to pump water out of the hole so that they can continue to go deeper.

This well was tested to provide 3,000 liters of water an hour (3.7 liters in a gallon) That’s excellent!

John said that this well is so productive that people could fetch water all day, however they will give this well a resting period (on a time table) each day. The reason is that they want to make sure it’s well taken care of and not overused.

The location is perfect. It’s will serve many that live nearby and also the Chairman lives nearby. He’s an old and respected man who will monitor the well. They will have a “Water Source Committee.” This will serve a community of 2,000 to 3,000 people.

Tomorrow or Sunday they will dig deeper. Then Monday, June 1 – Wednesday they will finish up with the cement, pump, etc. Should be done next week before we arrive.

The plaque in memory of the donors is already finished and will be laid in the cement.

There's a possibility that these donors will donate towards a well in Karwabuhire.
There are 5 to 6 boreholes in Nalweyo that need repaired. One is near an orphanage but will also serve a community. I have the photo of that broken borehole.(see below) I’m very interested in that borehole near the orphanage – can be fixed for around $900. That repaired borehole would also service 2,000 people plus children at nearby schools. We hope to visit on our next trip.

We have a list of three additional wells that will need constructed.
1) Buhimbe on the road from Hoima to Kyangwali. (will visit)
2) Butanja before you arrive to Hoima on the Kampala Rd. (will visit)
3) Near the Girls’ Hostel. The one at the bottom of the pathway. (last photo below)

We can repair all five boreholes in Nalweyo for around $4,500 total and other wells will be around $3,500 each to construct.

Water source in Buhanika before the latest well was constructed

The new well was completed in June 2012 and is located near the Moonlight Primary School in Buhanika. It will serve as many as 2,000 people from that village.

New well in Buhanika near Moonlight Primary School

Dean and Brenda Rice recently donated towards a new well in a village called Kanenakumbe. It's near Hoima Town in Uganda.

Here is the water source before the new well

The well is not completed yet but should be in a couple of weeks. The donors have provided this well in memory of Raymond and Rita Weishaar of Kansas.

The Kanenakumbe well is progressing and should be completed by mid-July

If the donors are pleased with the above well, they will donate towards a second well in Karwabuhire.

Karwabuhire location. Present water source.

This is a borehole that I am passionate about getting repaired. We can get this repaired for $900. This well serves children at the Pelagia Orphanage in Nalweyo, Kibala District western Uganda. It will help other children at nearby schools and 2,000 village people. Please help us fund this repair!

Lastly, we would like to construct a well near the Think Humanity Girls' Hostel. This child was collecting water the day I walked up the road to visit our girls.

"Let anyone who thirsts come to me and drink."  John 7:37 

Think Humanity has constructed 2 wells in Kyangwali Refugee Camp, 3 wells in Kyaka II Refugee Camp, a well near the Morning Star Christian School in Hoima, a well in Buhanika, a repaired borehole in Nalweyo and now the well in Kanenakumbe which is nearly finished. Please help us provide a safe and accessible water source (pump wells) to those in need.

Beth Heckel

LIFE WITH TK: Back to Africa

WELCOME TERRI TO UGANDA!
LIFE WITH TK: Back to Africa: Well, I'm off to Africa again...  I'm taking off this evening for another trip to Ethiopia, and then heading to Uganda (for the first time) ...

The food situation in western Uganda right now:


"The situation is so terrible. We are soon burying people because of hunger. There's no money and the place is dry. Even our crops are dying. Sincerely, there is no maize. Very soon we will stop taking lunch because there's no means so we are living for God's Will." --Samuel, a Congolese living in the UNHCR Kyaka II Refugee Camp Uganda.

Truthfully it's easy for us to ignore this and go about our day, have a great lunch, enjoy a Starbucks and go back to work or to our homes, turn on the TV and then have a nice dinner. Later that night we crawl into bed and we feel no hunger. Yes, most of us have been blessed; however there are children in our world that go to bed extremely hungry every night. (See 2012 world hunger stats on bottom link)

I know you care about others so here is how you can help.

Feed Just One has a goal to make it as easy as possible for you to feed a child. You might not be able to feed every hungry child in the world, but you can feed one.

Every time you buy a T-shirt from Feed Just One they donate 30 meals. At the beginning of every month they send your donation to Think Humanity and we send it to Uganda to our education manager. He then goes shopping for food with the girls that are living at our hostel.

Pictured are some of our girls purchasing food at the marketplace in Hoima, Uganda

If Feed Just One sells 90 T-shirts every month, then it should be enough to feed all 30 girls for 30 days. See there! With each T-shirt you purchase, you provided a whole month's worth of meals to one of our children. Thirty girls might not sound like a lot, but FJO has committed to providing 32,850 meals a year!

Visit the Feed Just One website to learn more at http://www.feedjustone.com/

For the price of one inexpensive meal here, you can feed a whole classroom full of children (in this case a hostel full of girls).

Mother Teresa once said, "If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."

Who we are feeding and why: Think Humanity brought these children together to live in a hostel so that they can receive a secondary school education within the town of Hoima. Our girls come from South Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, northern Uganda and poor rural villages in Uganda. These children have been victims of war or displacement and most have been orphaned. Learn more about the Think Humanity Girls' Hostel.

"Let God help us. Last weekend the hospital was full of people sick from hunger and malnutrition." - Andrew, Refugee from the UNHCR Kyangwali Refugee Camp Uganda. "It is true famine is very tough now here. That is why all children came to school without food." Amani, UNHCR Kyangwali Refugee Camp Uganda.

Learn more about the 2012 World Child Hunger Facts/Hunger and Poverty Facts and Statistics. The main cause of child hunger (malnutrition) is extreme poverty. Conflict (war) and climate changes also contribute to starvation.

The photo above was taken last April when money from T-shirt sales helped provide our children with eggs, bananas, pineapple, rice, potatoes and cabbage.

You can also contribute to Think Humanity at this link: Donate

"To help save lives and provide hope for refugees and underdeveloped communities in Africa by improving provisions for healthcare, clean water, education and socio-economic development."

Beth Heckel, Executive Director

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DRC refugees in Uganda face humanitarian crisis CCTV News - CNTV English

DRC refugees in Uganda face humanitarian crisis CCTV News - CNTV English

World Malaria Day April 25, 2012



April 25, 2012 Foundations Church Middle School

Think Humanity's, Beth Heckel spoke on Wednesday April 25, 2012 to the youth at Foundations Church. Some volunteers held up the bed net while a child laid inside to demonstrate how to be protected from mosquitoes. A child under the age of 5 years will die every 30 seconds from malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, but malaria is preventable and treatable.
A $10 insecticide-treated long-lasting bed net can help saves lives.

To learn more about Think Humanity and how to help fight malaria visit this link. Think Humanity.

WHAT IS MALARIA?

Malaria is a disease of the blood that is transmitted to people by an infected female mosquito. Malaria infects and destroys red blood cells (anemia) and clogs the capillaries that carry blood to the brain (cerebral malaria) or to the vital organs.

World Malaria Day April 25 2012

MaNdate 12 Bed Net Distribution in Uganda

My bona fide life: Feed Just One

My bona fide life: Feed Just One