Managing Director’s trip in January 2014
Empowering Kids is extremely lucky to have an amazing team on the ground in Uganda. There are three dedicated board members and an invaluable staff member ensuring the children are healthy, happy and successful. Being based out of Canada, it is an amazing relief to know and trust that everything is being run properly in your absence. Empowering Kids in Uganda Society would not
Photos from January 2014
A Family Home Drawings on the side of a hut The bike EKU uses for fieldwork An example of the paths driven by motorbike to reach family homes A family home Women walking Children listening at a family meeting People returning from church Empowering Kids Family Meeting
EKU is a Registered Charity!
Empowering Kids in Uganda is now a registered charity in Canada. This means that all donations over $25 qualify for tax receipts. With every donation make sure that you follow the steps on pay pal and a PDF tax receipt will be emailed to you by the organization. Our business number is 852321843RR0001. Happy Holidays
A Testament to Resilience
This week, myself, Erin, Kilara and her family travelled to Kampala for an MRI and Bone Biopsy. Surprisingly despite its complexity, it went off without a hitch. Before, we left for Kampala, myself and Kilara went to meet with Erin’s extended family. The meeting consisted of the extended family, the Local Councillors and the Local Child Representative. The point of the meeting was to draft
A Happy Day for Daisy
A week after Daisy underwent the skin grafting surgery, the bandages were removed for reassessment of the wound. Unfortunately, the skin grafting did not take fully and she was required to stay in the hospital for further cleaning in preparation for a second skin graft. After a few more days in the hospital, Daisy decided that she didn’t want to undergo a second skin
More Medical Tests for Erin
After the CT Scan, we took the results to a paediatrician for a second opinion. The doctor suggested we do additional investigation into her thyroid function and begin growth charting. The results showed that she was too small in all categories: weight, height and body mass index. Despite being 10yrs old, she is the size of an average 6-7yr old. At the doctor’s suggestion, we
Senior School and Shopping Excitement
In addition to the children we empower in primary school, Empowering Kids is assisting with the sponsorship and empowerment of two girls in secondary school. Cara and Nicole are beginning Senior 1 this year and will be attending a boarding school. Admission in secondary school is dependent on a child’s scores on their primary exit exams. This is one reason why it is important for children
Bullet Wounds and Skin Grafting
At the beginning of January I developed a partnership with an NGO that offers medical services to victims of Torture. All women and children formerly abducted by the LRA qualify for their services and EKU planned to take two of our children there for treatment of injuries sustained during their time in captivity. At the same time, I heard that a Child Mother, Daisy,
$20 Standing between Mother and Child
This week I got to partake in another amazing and humbling experience. A number of women are returning from captivity with the Lord’s Resistance Army and as a result, some of the children that returned previously as Unaccompanied Minors are now able to be reunited with their birth mothers. This is what happened this week… On Monday, I was hanging out at GUSCO when a
With Time an Egg will Walk
The title of this post, is one of my favorite school mottos in Gulu, Uganda. There is something very peculiar yet true about the statement. I often pass the school and have a little giggle to myself and so I decided to use it as the title of this post. I began on Monday by meeting all of the kids around Gulu at their