Volume 1, Issue 1

PROJECT SHALOM UGANDA

NEWLETTER EDITION

PROJECT SHALOM UGANDA

Special points of interest:

Who we are at Project Shalom

Word from the Director

Capacity building programs

Community fostering programs

– social work

The Home Sphere

Welfare/Intercession

The Children’s world

The Eden of Shalom

Way forward & the future.

Inside Story 1

Inside Story 2

Inside Story 3

Inside Story 4

Inside Story 5

Inside Story 6

Inside Story 7

Inside this issue:

Project Shalom Uganda, formally Sha-

lom Ministries, is a “Child/Widows care

ministry”, a charity that is dedicated to

see a Uganda that has the interests of

Children at heart. The charity also of-

fers comfort to destitute widows to help

them find hope & the meaning of life in

their loneliness.

We are committed to the care of Chil-

dren at risk to see that they attain the

basic necessities of life such as educa-

tion, shelter, food, clothing, care and

love in order to achieve their full poten-

tial.

Our empathy is derived from the book of

James 1:27

This organization is comprised of

two boards of Trustees, one in the

U.K and the other in UGANDA that

oversee the smooth running of the

project.

We are a registered UK charity

no.1136019 & Non-Governmental

Organisation (NGO) no. 901015-

5314/9477 situated in Jinja in the

east of Uganda.

The organization has a personnel that

is highly motivated and equipped

with the necessary skills to make a

positive contribution in the life of the

Ugandan Child. The Centre gives

young people immediate care to

help them recover from any trauma

they have suffered and to regain

control of their lives and help give

them a normal childhood as well as

help them grow to become responsi-

ble people. Many of the orphans are

brought in traumatised and malnour-

ished and sometimes with AIDS,

malaria, yellow fever and various

infections so Shalom comes in to

give medical care, education and

training.

“Who we are at Project Shalom” News Letter: Date June 2013

“Word from the Director & special thanks”

Welcome to our first newsletter and we hope it will be insightful. Project

Shalom was founded in 2002 by Juliet Nasuuna to transform the lives of

orphans and vulnerable children. Juliet herself was orphaned, but was later

fostered by Christian relatives and this experience inspired her to start this

project to care for other orphans & vulnerable children. This project is fully

supported by people who have a heart for children to ensure that they attain

the best out of life. With all humility special thanks to all our UK support-

ers: to mention but a few: Marlow Community Church, Church of the Liv-

ing God (CLOG), schools plus the entire Church and the UK community

who continue to open their doors when we knock on them for support. May

God richly bless you all. We embrace anyone who wants to be a part of this

transformation.

Truly: God’s everlasting

arms will sustain us!

PROJECT SHALOM UGANDA

Life at the start (2004)

Life with Shalom by 2013

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Capacity Building workshops/ seminars In our drive to empower our partnership, we

initiated & implemented capacity building

strategies, which we saw as suitable to bene-

fit all foster parents & staff members, by

holding “healthy parenting” Workshops.

The very first of this kind took place last

year in 2012 & participants included all staff

members & prospective identified foster par-

ents at that time. Workshops are held in

three phases following the months

of April, August and finally November

each year & certificates are awarded

upon completion. For these work-

shops, facilitators with different par-

enting skills & educational knowledge

are sourced mainly from the

“Education for Transformation”

scheme which has a YWAM back-

ground to ensure that quality skills &

biblical based knowledge are offered to

us and our foster parents. Topics cov-

ered include: “Child growth & devel-

opment”, “The Father heart of God”

and “World view & the value of chil-

dren”. On 3rd-5th April 2013, a similar

workshop took place for the same pur-

pose as before to another group of se-

lected foster parents under this theme.

At the end of these workshop sessions,

one parent remarked that

“These workshops have been an eye

opener”. She added “This has helped

me to understand the difference be-

tween child parenting and child up-

bringing and the need to respect our

children”. With this, we are glad to

know that we are breaking ground &

working towards having the foster

parents informed and educated.

Community Fostering Program– Social work

This program is being empowered and

developed in order to continue settling

more children into foster homes. Espe-

cially for those children currently resid-

ing at Shalom house, who have received

thorough psychological therapy having

suffered different traumas ranging from

the death of their parents, abuse, neglect

& other factors.

Since the start of this programme, out of

the 24 resident children, 6 children have

so far been placed back into foster fam-

ilies. During this process, we prepare

them psychologically

to ensure the transition of changing from the

Shalom house care environment into the

community. This helps them to cope with

the dynamics of the world outside of Shalom

and the feeling of being part of a

smaller family, yet becoming part of a

wider community which helps them to

relate well with others in the communi-

ty & prepares them to become more

independent as they develop into adult-

hood.

Out of the 63 beneficiaries who receive

support from Shalom, we currently offer

a home environment to 14 children plus

meals to 4 young adults who reside out-

side the house but who are still acquir-

ing educational skills in institutions of

higher educational learning plus univer-

sity dissertations and internships.

Therefore a total of 18 are still being fed

at Shalom house. The reasons for us to

keep doing this include; the need to re-

habilitate traumatized children, provide

shelter & protection to children who

have no

place to stay as a result of abandon-

ment by family relatives, in cases of

death of biological parents or close

responsible relatives. At Shalom

house, we have capable house par-

ents who give appropriate care &

love to these children & help to

guide them in aspects that are cen-

tral to their wellbeing. The home

offers a real homely environment

whereby children learn different

home chores ranging from cleanli-

ness, making their beds & any rele-

vant skills as seen suitable.

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Welfare/ Intercession

2 Chronicles 7:14 says “if my peo-

ple who are called by my name

shall humble themselves & pray &

seek my face & turn from their

wicked ways, then shall I hear from

heaven, forgive their sins,&

heal their land...” Project

Shalom Uganda is a Christian

charity. We believe the bible

as God’s inspired word & our

final authority in all our ac-

tivities. We believe that God

holds the past, present & fu-

ture of Shalom, so we seek

God on a weekly basis

through prayers at the start of

each week. All staff commit

to this valuable time as we

seek God’s guidance. We

aspire to grow in the knowledge of

God’s word and his manifold wis-

dom to strengthen our faith amidst

all the trials & challenges we face

in all our services to him.

We believe that God speaks in various ways

& so we seek him through intercessory pray-

ers, praise & worship & sometimes with fast-

ing. We have taken a further

We have taken a further step to reach out to

the community we serve by teaching families

to know God as their creator,

provider & our present help in times

of need. We strongly believe that we

exist to worship God in all that we

do.

Community foster parents trusts in God

Our Children’s World In the month of April, we initiated a writ-

ing competition that saw the involvement

and participation of the home children.

The articles ranged from a number of

themes such at Shalom we value Educa-

tion, the significance of prayer & the fight

against HIV/AIDS among others. Howev-

er after careful scrutiny, we had to come

up with the best. Here is the poem by

Leah Kyomuhendo.

Politics

“Oh dear politicians, our leaders; There is need

to look beyond yourselves and attend to nation-

al issues. To address rampant youth unemploy-

ment, high illiteracy levels, child sacrifice,

child labor, early marriages and the existence

of street children not forgetting child soldering.

We need to build a unified platform and fight

against these injustices in Uganda”.

Leah : The prize winner

“The Eden of Shalom” In 2012 we acquired a 3 acre piece of

land through the generosity of

our friends Laura &

Adrienne. We are extremely

grateful and thank you for re-

sponding to our need. We are

also grateful to God who grant-

ed us our desire to have land in

the vicinity of Jinja. Since

Uganda is mainly an agricultur-

al country, we started to culti-

vate the land & we grow a sta-

ple supply of grains, potatoes,

bananas, fruits &vegetables to

improve the children’s diet.

The Children also benefit by

learning gardening skills to

prepare them for a productive

adulthood . For most of the children,

It’s a terrific experience to participate in the gardening,

they have so much fun plus the joy of owning what

they grow and they can pick fresh food as they like.

Children & staff on lunch break at the farm– From clearing

season, planting weeding & nearing harvest time.. On the ex-

treme right is our grains left with 3 weeks to harvest time.

PROJECT SHALOM UGAND A

P.O.BOX 1019

JINJA (U)

LOCATION: Muziransa Rd. Bugembe

Uganda Phone contacts

PHONE: +256434-124142/ +256783761367

EMAIL: projectshalom@hotmail.co.uk, julienassy@gmail.com

UK Contacts:

Cell +447710259358/ 7549947942/ 7999751504

Website: www.projectshalom.com

Facebook: Project Shalom Uganda

Blog: http://www.shalomchildrenblog.blogspot.co.uk

To donate: Please Contact UK Treasurer David Rogers

(44)7710259358 or 01628299335

Our Vision is

“The transformation of orphans, vulnerable children and other dis-

possessed young people into responsible, upright and God loving

citizens through Christ’s practical love and care.”

Mission:

“To foster and care for orphans and vulnerable children.”

Core values:

“Each beneficiary in our care is of inestimable worth, being created

in the image of God; they are always loved, nurtured and protected.

This means:

Their needs for feeding, clothing, health, education, career guid-

ance, moral, social and spiritual development are at the forefront

of all we do.

We are protective of their safety and guard against inappropriate

behaviour that is harmful or deprives children from enjoying

their rights.

Our values and ethos are Christian and derived from the Bible.

This means:

We look to Jesus in all matters of conduct, speech and attitude of

heart.

We model Him in our dealings with those we care for and one

another.

We seek to educate children to follow our example and to be

Christ’s disciples.

We do what we say and say what we do.

We value and encourage grace, truth, faith, righteousness, jus-

tice, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, thankful-

ness, self-control, humility and service.

For More Information: reach us on the address on the left.

Way forward & future for Project Shalom

We would like to share our hopes for the near fu-

ture.

Continuous promotion tour by the Director

We hope to celebrate our 10th Anniversary

this year (subject to availability of resources.)

We hope to continue integrating more chil-

dren into well trained foster families in order

to help them achieve the best out of life.

Long Term:

Farm development: We look at self-reliance in

terms of reduced donor dependence. Therefore

our intention is to develop:

The land on a wider scale by not only grow-

ing produce for consumption, but also for in-

come generation by adding animal husbandry

& poultry projects on the land.

The land will also serve as a model scheme

for foster parents to acquire modern skills for

subsistent farming.

Research shows that factors such as HIV/AIDS,

maternal deaths & poverty are the leading causes

of child- headed households plus escalating rates

in orphans & vulnerable children in Uganda and

Africa as a whole.

Therefore as Project Shalom, we

believe that the wellbeing and de-

velopment of any nation starts

with children who need care and

love to enable them to grow into

responsible citizens. We believe

that God’s everlasting arms will

sustain us.

Amen!

SHALOM CALENDER.

Parenting workshops.

Continual placement of children in foster fami-lies.

Contentious promotion-al programs.

Shalom Anniversary.

Christmas party.