Our main house is well under way. This is the foundation of our children's village. It will house our family and allow us to bring in even more children into our family. Our goal is to move into our home in December of this year. We need your help. Be a part of our 50 day challenge! Our goal is to raise $50,000. This is a huge amount but if everyone comes together it will happen.

We need 1000 people to each donate $50.00 before June 1.

Please select 'How you can help' and make a onetime donation of $50.00. Please help our dream become a reality.together it will happen. Starting today for the next 50 days until June 1st we need 1000 people to donate $50.00 (That's $1 a day) Please go to We are now in Day 3 of our 50 Day Challenge, and from support from friends on facebook we have so far raised $800.00. We now need 984 more people to donate $50.00 before June 1.

Main house construction is underway

We are growing an abundance of maize and sweet potato that will soon be ready to harvest. The grandmother and her grandchildren are doing well and enjoying their new family home. We still need to raise funds to bring in a truck to drill for water as the workers kept digging into boulders resulting in no water. We have fundraised enough money to construct half the main house. Kelowna Gives to Grandmothers and my Grandparents Denis and Jen Travers each donated $10,000 towards the main house. Just before I left Canada the owner of the Canadian Touring Company, ElderTreks, contacted me. In honour of his company's 25th Anniversary he has chosen to donate $25,000 towards the main house. They will also be adding us to their tour of Uganda to help us build more awareness of our project and show the support we've been given from ElderTreks. We are very excited about this partnership! We will start laying down the foundation for the new house in early February. Depending on funding, we hope to be living in the main house by September 2012.

 

Thank you, Canada!

We were so overwhelmed by the amazing support we had when we came to Canada. It all started with the silent auction where $22,000 was raised! We had 15 extremely successful Ugandan craft parties that we hosted at numerous donors' homes. We were fortunate enough to receive two laptops and a sewing machine to bring back to Uganda with us. I also had the chance to be in our local paper and on CBC radio to share our story. We received donations from Girl Guides from White Rock and also support from the Coquitlam Rotary. An amazing total of over $100,000 was raised on this trip to Canada. There are no words to describe how appreciative we are of everyone's part in raising up our children and our future plans! Thank you so much.

Satellite House
    

We are proud to say our first satellite house is now up – and we couldn't have done it without our many amazing supporters. Kelowna Gifts to Grandmothers provided the funds for construction and materials while a group of dedicated supporters from Canada helped build the main structure.

This first satellite house will be a model for the nine additional houses planned for the future and consists of 2 children's bedrooms, 1 'Auntie' and 'Grandmother' bedroom, a storage room and a sitting room. We have Grandma and her grandchildren already moved in. With the main water storage tank dug and the well construction complete, we will be able to pump water up near the satellite houses and it in the construction of the main house and other future projects.

The construction of this house is a very big step for us and we look forward to building the main house very soon in order to move our family there and start enjoying the land.