Christian Victory Ministries
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Director: John Kaazi, Ndejje, Uganda
Years of partnership with AHI: 5
Progress and Achievements
John Kaazi now leads this organisation and works hard to oversee the project in far away Kibogo deep village via Kamwenge in Western Uganda. 200 children from this poverty stricken village now attend our unfinished school, mostly seated in temporary mud classrooms while waiting for the roof to go on our new permanent structure.
As our HOPE team visited this year, again we were pleased to see the lift in children’s health due to the food and support the children get at the HOPE Project Nursery and Primary School, Kibogo.
The bright blue uniforms that have invaded the village are an inspiration, with most children never taking them off except Saturdays to wash! We were special guests at a building progress celebration and 400 came from the gardens for miles around to enjoy the day at the new school site. LC1, 3 and 5 government officials attended, a highlight being when the children sang their national anthem, and our HOPE team sang the Australian anthem in return. The excitement here is great and people are amazed that we would help their village advance in such needed areas for their children and community.
Teachers in the school are from the village and while young, they capably teach their region’s children with confidence and pride. Gaye and Graham Stoodley from Mt. Gambier in S.A. head up a HOPE Chapter there and funds raised from their hard work pay the teacher’s salaries and will get concrete floors down which frees up our support to continue construction of the much needed extra classrooms.
Land for this project was donated by the church pastor whose children forfeited their inheritance of this land parcel to let the school project commence. It has become the new village centre of interest and excitement for the future. Our goal for this school is 10 classrooms, a library, main hall and teacher’s quarters. On completion, 1000 children will be attending. A clinic is also planned for the community here as well as a water bore to relieve the children of carrying heavy daily water supplies from the river 3 kilometres away.