November 2008 mission to Kenya and Uganda - leaving soon!

African Action assists single parent families and homeless children with accommodation, food, clean drinking water, medical aid and education. Our visiting teams bring instruction regarding hygiene, nutrition, crafts and micro business development. We also develop programs to train pastors and leaders from outlying areas who then return to the village to share with the people in their communities.

Our mission in November 2008 to Africa will include;

Visiting prisons, we are hoping for funds to buy blankets for prisoners who have none and bibles or bible portions. Opening our new Medical clinic for serving the local community. Ministering in local churches and working with youth and widows to teach crafts (doll making and saleable items) at our project in Magere, a village 20kms from the capital city Kampala. The second week of our mission we will be travelling for five hours to the Masindi district where will we will be visiting the poor, families and churches, holding a conference for the leaders and their wives and families, taking medical aid if funds are available.

We will be visiting a school in Bweyale for 500 children rescued from the ‘rebel army’ in Northern Uganda who kidnapped them years before. These children need much help. We hope to inspire and assist them with English tuition, art therapy and games and to share stories and the gospel message in a creative way. We then fly to Kenya and work for two weeks in Mercy Orphanage for forty children who were orphaned or abandoned. Much help is needed there and we will be teaching the children and reaching out to the poor widows and families nearby.

We ask for your prayers and if you are willing to be part of our outreach by donating please contact Jean from the African Action website.

Safe way Clinic

The Clinic will be managed by Betty, the wife of Pastor Sula, Betty is a well qualified nurse, having spent a number of years working in the Adjumani goverment at a hospital in Northern Uganda. Betty has now completed her Advanced Nursing diploma with distinction and is keen to have the clinic open for business. The clinic has been built and supported exclusively by African Action International, Australia. The aim of the Clinic is to provide nutritional products and medical drugs to treat the many illnesses suffered by the people such as Typhoid, Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Sickle Cell Anemia, Viral and Bacterial illnesses thereby reducing the death rate in the community. They have to incorporate a Diagnostic Laboratory in order to test for Malaria and typhoid. People often fail to get help because they cannot afford this testing process or the medication and therefore suffer and die needlessly. Support and teaching for women during pregnancy, birthing and child care will be another focus of this clinic. We also want to provide nutritonal supplements for malnourished people. Betty and Pastor Sula have a vision to also reach out to people suffering from terminal illnesses in the Magere community, to medicate, counsel and share the gospel of Christ Jesus with them. This is a great vision and is worthy of our support! The clinic has received funding and hopes to provide medicines and staff for the first 12 months. It is hoped that in the future a mobile clinic will operate from the Magere Clinic to reach remote areas.

Mercy Children's Home

The Mercy Children’s Home is located in Uriri, South Nyanza, Kenya. This home for orphaned and abandoned children was started in 1998 by Consolate A Muga. The boy’s wing was completed in May 2007. It is now home for ten boys who were sleeping in a portion of the tin shed which is used for the Mercy Nursery School and Church. A cow-shed has been built for the cow provided by a Victorian church and a calf was born in December 2007. The children now enjoy fresh milk every day. The cow is hand fed with a special long grass that is especially grown for animals. It has to be cut and chopped each day to feed the cow. All cows are raised in the ‘zero grazing’ method because of the danger to cattle of tropical diseases. A new kitchen and storeroom has been built.

A second extension for the thirty girls is currently underway. The trenches for the new girl’s wing have been dug, the traditional ‘huge rocks’ were placed into the trenches and the concrete poured. Mercy Home was originally ten girls, now Mercy Home has thirty six children, a third boys and two thirds girls. An upper slab is being poured to allow another storey to be added later. We urgently need funds to complete this building. It is a large building and it is eventually to be two or even three storeys high to be able to accommodate staff, a baby section and other facilities such as offices. At present people are sleeping on the floor on mattresses as there is just not room for everyone. Fifteen to twenty thousand dollars is needed to complete the upper slab on top of the ground floor.

We continue to believe God for the completion of this building.