Women and Girls Education & Empowerment in Uganda

The Angel Projects is very saddened to have to report that Caroline, one of the members of our Elderly Project, has passed away.  However, Caroline's final years of life were filled with dignity, health, companionship, and happiness. She is now at peace, and her love and legacy live on. Thank you to everyone who has supported our Elderly Project and provided life-changing services for Caroline and the other members of the ministry. 

We are very happy to report that Faith, one of the first members of the Saving Grace Project and a sponsored student, is recovering from her health scare and is back at school. She recently visited the Angel Projects Uganda compound and spent an afternoon making bracelets to sell in order to help pay for her tuition. These bracelets will soon be available for purchase on our website. We are so glad that Faith is back to her regular life, and we are truly grateful to all our sponsors who answered the call and helped us get her the medical care she so desperately needed.

Another wonderful update is that last week our Ugandan staff members held their first computer class as the teachers!  Their first student is named Linata, and she's a young woman who is passionate about technology and eager to learn as much as she can before heading to college.  Our hope is that this basic computer knowledge will help her in her studies and future career and will give her an advantage once she finishes secondary school. We are so grateful to our sponsors who helped us purchase a new laptop and Internet access for our computer classes. You are truly lifechangers! 

During this Thanksgiving season, we at The Angel Projects appreciate the love and support of our sponsors as well as the hard work and dedication of our staff and the members of our various projects. We have a lot to be grateful for!  Have a blessed Thanksgiving!

At The Angel Projects, it is always our policy to listen to the voices of the local community members who we serve and allow them to tell us what they need.  We then problem-solve to find solutions to meet their needs. We never want to come into a place as foreigners and tell the local people what we think they need; we believe that method is ethnocentric and ineffective.

Our Elderly Project was birthed out of a need brought to us by community members in Rubuguri, Uganda, who saw that many of the elderly in their area were suffering due to a lack of support.  These were people who had gotten too old to work and support themselves, and they either had no family or at least no family members in the area.  In Uganda, there are no governmental or societal supports for the elderly; so, essentially these people were on their own with no resources.  In response to this need, we started our Elderly Project through which we're able to provide these people with food and other essentials, healthcare, assistance with cleaning and bathing, and companionship. Basically, our staff members who work for our Elderly Project give these valued community members back their dignity and bring them hope.

Recently, we were made aware of a sad situation taking place in our own backyard.  Lois, a student in our scholarship program, was missing a lot of school, and her grades were slipping. One of our staff members visited Lois at home to investigate why this was happening and whether there was anything we could do to help. It turns out that Lois lives with her grandmother, and she was missing school because she was taking care of her grandmother and working in order to provide food for her. There was no one else in the family who could help them. To us, the solution was obvious: we enrolled Lois' grandmother in our Elderly Project so that our staff members could take care of her and provide food; this meant that Lois was able to return to school and to be fully present while she's there, not worrying about her grandmother back at home. In this situation, we were able to bring hope not only to Lois' grandmother but to Lois as well, who is actually a very talented student with big dreams for her future. 

In every situation and in every project we start, we have found that listening to the locals and strategizing together is the key to success and change. We are meeting their actual needs, rather than what we imagine their needs to be, and we're providing them with a chance to have ownership in the projects. Our mission and goals mean more to the community when they're involved in the process of creating them, and they become more invested in seeing growth and in helping to make the projects successful. We want to thank all of our generous donors who support our projects; we know that without you, we would never be able to make these incredible changes in this community.