KYONGERA FARM

About Kyongera Farm

Kyongera Farm is another Bringing Hope to the Family Project.

This small 20 hectare block of land is located 8 kilometers from the main village of Kaihura, providing food and education to the Home Again orphans and staff.

Pineapple plantation at Kyongera farm

The boys at Kyongera were serving themselves with
 lunch which is green  banana grown at the farm

The main purpose of the farm is to produce quality fruit and vegetables for the Home Again Orphanage.  With anywhere from 40 to 80 children being feed three meals a day, the food costs for the Orphanage are always high, and nutrition is very important for growing children.  The usual diet for a Ugandan family is Posho and beans.  By growing a variety of different fruits and vegetables it is possible to increase the nutritional value of the food served to the children.  Currently the farm has vegetable crops of cassava, carrots, cabbages, green beans, tomatoes, egg plants, onions and maize.  As well as tropical fruits such as guava, green and yellow bananas, pineapples, oranges and papaya.

The secondary purpose of the farm is to educate young people and also the surrounding community members with agricultural knowledge and practical skills. Most of these students have not performed well in formal education and are suited better to practical learning.  During the school term the students stay at the farm together in a dormitory.  The skills learned at the farm enable the students to return to their village and establish their own income generating activities.  

Dormitory for the students at the farm

Carpentry workshop at the farm

Recently a large plantation of coffee bean trees has been planted, which when matured in 3 to 4 years will provide an income to the project.  In the future there are plans to expand the buildings and the overall size of the farm to include the Dorcas Vocational school.

Prossy

Hello this is Prossy, a new communication officer in Bringing Hope to the Family.I am one of the orphans whom the organisation has brought up and now I am through with my studies. I am happy that now I am serving our organisation. Expect much from me, thank you.

First Quarter Staff Appreciation

On behalf of the entire BHTF team, I am humbled to take this opportunity to thank you all for your great support (BHTF and the donors)!!!!!! Without each of you we would not have progressed as easily as we have in this 1st quarter 2012. We are very greatful to our Community in Kaihura and the surroundings Kyenjojo District that have entrusted us to provide Love, Hope, Medical Care&Treatment and Other services for them. Their appreciation to our Organisation and the services has not been merely good but also encouraging to our staff.
All of BHTF staff is overjoyed with the 100% sustainability mark that we have hit this quarter performance since the year began. It has been such an exciting time as for all our staff since they have learnt of the excellent and commendable accomplishement.Great and thank God all our children are back from school for 1st term holidays with awesome performance.As we had sports day on the closing of the schools.Well be back.
Thank you for support

Providing Social Support in the Community

The Social Support Program comprises of the services that mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS service on clients and their care givers/families.The OVC package includes Formal Education,Vocational training at Dorcus and Village Art Salon and facilitation for start up Income Generating Activities(IGA's) with support from Inter-Religious Council of Uganda(IRCU) and Bantwana Intiatives among others to the community.Big thanks to our partners for the contuined support to the communities of Kaihura and Kyenjojo District as whole.
Bringing Hope to the Family staff trained community leaders and their households in IGA's of their choice for sustainable livelihoods.They are then given inputs,equipments and seed grants to start IGA's.Emphasis is put on clients group formation to access and pool resources for their Projects.

Increasing quality in service delivery

Bringing Hope to the Family together with Hope Again Medical Centre recently selected a team of 10 members from the Community with an aim of increasing Community Participation who will be acting as Health Unit Management Committee to Coordinate the Medical Centre and meet our desired mission and goal of providing care and support, restoring hope and improving the quality of life of families and communities affected by HIV/AIDS, poverty and disaster through sensitization, advocay, monitoring and evaluation of the activities and giving feedback from the community.

The team had an orientation meeting that kicked off with tour at new site and members thanked the Organisation for the good work done in education,sustainable livelihood and provision  of the medical care to the widows,orphans and vulnerable children especially our partners(Embrace Uganda) that has put in alot and we can't await to shift to the new site therefore friends join us in prayers so that it may come to pass and make a difference in peoples' lives. Thank you all for the support.

School time Again

Its' coming to 3weeks now since students and pupils started School both Primary and Secondary School. Joy filled ours hearts and the Children seeing most of our Children successfully passed their Exams with flying colours in the year 2011 for Primary and Secondary after their results were released a week ago.The most interesting part of it is that six Children from Home Again got vacancies from Nyakasura Secondary School in Fort Portal town and today they were all happy setting off for School and ready to join Senior One.
We want to say thank you all, the partners and sponsors of some of the children, for all the prayers and support given to us and the children. On the same  note as an organisation, its our felt desire and ask all friends and partners for prayer requests to the children who do not have sponsors and due to the financial/global crisis we have been struggling all through and we really thank God for his grace and mercy that he has seen us up to this point.

Leadership Training

The whole of this week as an Organisation we have been blessed with visitors and friends from different corners of the world. We had fellowship with them, some from Polland led by Peter, a team from Global Support Mission (GSM) led by Travis on Monday morning.We really thank God for the families and our children from Home Again for the successful Court ruling that was done on Tuesday in Fort portal and were granted Legal Guardianship from God fearing and Loving parents. Please, prayer requests goes to the remaining Children, the home needs and Staff for Gods' direction and guidance.

On Wednesday, we had an exiting and fun day from from Sasser's place where Management staff under went a half day Leadership Training that was led by one of the Volunteers called Tammey and big thanks to our partners GSM for the support and capacity building to the Organisation.The training was good, skillful and everybody enjoyed and we hope we could have it so often since it focused of good and Servant Leadreship. It was really awesome and just at the right time and we hope to put it in practice and build on what we have already. The first of its' kind entitled ''SERVE''.God bless..........