Isaac's House Newsletter - March 2018

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Our lovely Gloria who is studying Cambridge also received her IGCSE results and scored 3 A’s, 1 B and 4 C’s. She was delighted with this result and in Uganda’s education system this is considered the highest grade. We are so proud of Gloria as she puts so much hard work and efforts into her academic studies. Gloria has always wanted to be a lawyer and still has this interest in the future, however over the school holidays, following work experience at an Medical Centre and helping with Medical Community Outreaches, she now wants to pursue a career in Nursing. Great news too for our Simon who excelled in his end of Primary examinations and scored such a brilliant grade he has now joined one of the top Secondary schools in Uganda! Well done Simon. Thank you from Florence… Thank you to everyone who kindly donated to support Florence. Florence sadly lost her husband when thieves broke into their family home and she too was badly injured, losing her arm. Florence wanted to be able to work and support her 4 children herself. With your donations and support we were able to help Florence finish constructing her new home, and set up a small business. Our lovely Pappa Charles took time out recently to go and visit Florence in her new home, in her village, around 3 hours away from Kampala. He was very happy for Florence and also extends his thanks to the charity for being able to help. 2017 Review… Our lovely Jjajja… Our lovely Jjajja is retiring and moving back to her village. Jjajja is a wonderful lady, who we first met when we began helping educate her Granddaugher Livius. Jjajja became our Crafts teacher and grew a close bond with all our children. Sadly as she is getting older her eyesight and knees cause her pain and discomfort. Jjajja owns land in her village and has more support from her family there. She wants to be able to live a peaceful life and will be able to eat what she grows. Thank you to everyone who donated to help Jjajja with her retirement and all the lovely messages she received via Facebook. As a charity we are committeed to continuing to support Livius with her education and she will be visiting her lovely Grandmother during the school holidays. 2017 was a brilliant year for Isaac’s House, and marks 10 years since Paul Howells first visited Uganda and where Isaac’s House all began.
2017 Review… In 2017 we had two volunteer trips to Uganda led by Paul himself, and a Weightmans staff trip in May thanks to organiser and trustee Hayley Gilroy. As a charity we really promote these trips as they allow our supporters to see for themselves the good work of the charity and what a beautiful country Uganda is, along with meeting all the wonderful children and families we support. Thank you to everyone who attended our fundraising events in 2017; the Curry Night in Formby and Haloween Party in Liverpool. An incredible amount of money was raised and will help us continue our good work in the community and running Isaac’s House children’s home. All the children continue to be happy, healthy and making us so proud! Thank you from the children at Isaac’s House! As a small charity, we really appreciate those who organise fundraising or sponsorship events themselves. We understand the effort and time that goes into fundraising and we are so thankful to you all for choosing Isaac’s House. A huge well done and thank you too for Victoria Bell who swam Lake Windermere to help raise funds for our beautiful children and Victoria’s family and friends who sponsored. Victoria herself has never been to Uganda but still chose to support us and we hope knowing that 100% of the money she raised goes directly to helping the children we support helped make the swim all the more worthwhile. In 2017 we also began selling Christmas cards made by the children, this was a huge success and we hope to repeat again this year. Christmas in Uganda is very different to Christmas in the UK. With no snow, Santa, or presents, the day is focused on spending time with family, eating lots of food and attending Church. Our children at Helping in the Community As we have previously mentioned, education in Uganda is fee-paying. This causes many parents to be unable to send their children to school, or for children to have periods where they are out of education. The staff at Isaac’s House came up with a wonderful idea on another way to give back to the community and opened up James Dunn House of Hope in the afternoons to children who sadly are not currently in school. Thanks to our donators we have a good selection of books and education material, and with most of our children grown up the staff had some free time to sit with the children, reading and teaching. We understand this does not replace a good quality education, but we hope to at least be able to give the children some routine and keep their brains and minds active. When we first started last year we had a family of 5 siblings; their father worked on a stone quarry and had become badily injured and unable to work for 6 months, and therefore unable to pay school fees. However, we are deighted the children are now back in school, and did not need to re-sit the school year thanks to our help and support during this time. This is just one example of a family who have really benefited from this set up and we continue to help those in the community. This video show the children at the end of last year performing songs and dances to show their appreciation.
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