News Flash: Trip to UNYAMA A SUCCESS
A note from my contact in Gulu about his journey to Unyama to distribute donations made by friends and loved ones. THANK YOU!! I wanted to share below the email I received from Joseph about his time at Unyama...please continue to pray. Pray in addition for the people living in the camps, for good health for Joseph, for the start of this Community Based Organization which is now in the works and which Joseph will head (with my support in the States)...and please pray for peace in Northern Uganda - restoration, peace and hope for those whose lives have been shattered by the war.
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Hello Sue!
Sorry for keeping you waiting for long for so long without informing you informing you about our journey to Unyama. Well, i was in Unyama on the 28th Jan. Sunday with the donations and handed them over to the camp leader, but i made sure i saw the whole distributing exercise. The people present were: Daniel Otto, Kinyera Alfred, Aciro Jennifer, Adong .R., Akello Margret, Ayoo Doroteya Ayoo Margret and finally the camp chairman. I hope the names are the ones you have.
We took group photos -that will be sent to you as soon as they are ready. The people were very happy and really appreciated what you did. However, the wife of the camp chairman said , you had promised them some money to start-up petty businesses, she enquired whether i had some knowledge of it.My reply was: i don't know anything about it , but promised to remind you if you could have said it but forgot.
Otherwise it was a very interesting day for me and the beneficiaries.
About opening an organisation to work in the camps, i think I'll inform you soon, but another because we are still making some consultations and other important things that the foundation of the organisation will be laid upon. But, on an informatory note, i would love to keep you well informed that, the future of the organisation will majorly be out of your efforts, in that we shall ask you to help us knock doors of potential donors. We are looking into possible ways of including you in the organisation structure so that we can have some of your visions - as a person who has been on the ground and disapproved all the sugar coated facts about the situations in the whole of Acholi sub-region. For real, we count on you.
It's a pity that you laboured to pull a large sum of money to send donations this way. I know what it means to get money, especially when i reflect how we stress ourselves to get money for our tuition when the University authority threatens to lock us out of the examinations room if we don't pay the semester fees of 300 dollars. And now if i compare with your situations where you have to meet your study expenses and to afford the high cost of living in the US, sincerely it becomes difficult. So we shall look into possible ways to make things easier.
I hope to communicate to you soon about the organisation, but you can have a say even before i E-mail you.
Thanks
Joseph
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Hello Sue!
Sorry for keeping you waiting for long for so long without informing you informing you about our journey to Unyama. Well, i was in Unyama on the 28th Jan. Sunday with the donations and handed them over to the camp leader, but i made sure i saw the whole distributing exercise. The people present were: Daniel Otto, Kinyera Alfred, Aciro Jennifer, Adong .R., Akello Margret, Ayoo Doroteya Ayoo Margret and finally the camp chairman. I hope the names are the ones you have.
We took group photos -that will be sent to you as soon as they are ready. The people were very happy and really appreciated what you did. However, the wife of the camp chairman said , you had promised them some money to start-up petty businesses, she enquired whether i had some knowledge of it.My reply was: i don't know anything about it , but promised to remind you if you could have said it but forgot.
Otherwise it was a very interesting day for me and the beneficiaries.
About opening an organisation to work in the camps, i think I'll inform you soon, but another because we are still making some consultations and other important things that the foundation of the organisation will be laid upon. But, on an informatory note, i would love to keep you well informed that, the future of the organisation will majorly be out of your efforts, in that we shall ask you to help us knock doors of potential donors. We are looking into possible ways of including you in the organisation structure so that we can have some of your visions - as a person who has been on the ground and disapproved all the sugar coated facts about the situations in the whole of Acholi sub-region. For real, we count on you.
It's a pity that you laboured to pull a large sum of money to send donations this way. I know what it means to get money, especially when i reflect how we stress ourselves to get money for our tuition when the University authority threatens to lock us out of the examinations room if we don't pay the semester fees of 300 dollars. And now if i compare with your situations where you have to meet your study expenses and to afford the high cost of living in the US, sincerely it becomes difficult. So we shall look into possible ways to make things easier.
I hope to communicate to you soon about the organisation, but you can have a say even before i E-mail you.
Thanks
Joseph
posted by Sue Nahm at 2:46 PM
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