Vicki and I are preparing for a trip to Jinja, Uganda in November to work with Fount of Mercy.  Jinja is where Vicki’s sister, Vanessa, has lived for the past five or six years and Fount of Mercy is an organization that Vanessa helped develop.  Fount of Mercy builds indigenous African organization’s capacity to provide educational and vocational opportunities for the orphans, vulnerable children and caregivers in their communities.  Fount builds said capacity through technical support, resource mobilization and grant making in the following four program areas:  educational development, vocational development, health education and organization development.  To learn more about Fount of Mercy, you can visit their website at fountofmercy.org.

Goals of our trip:

* Assist Fount of Mercy’s Community Health Initiative Director, Vanessa Crowley, with the operation of a Youth Life Skills Training Camp
* Assist with Fount of Mercy’s Vocational Education program by teaching business and vocational skills to widows
* Share the Good News with the Ugandas we will encounter while assisting Fount of Mercy
* Gain a better understanding of the culture of Uganda
* Establish relationships with missionaries residing in Jinja

James 1:27 “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

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