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Recently I had an amazing opportunity to travel to Africa with a group of 25 like-minded but very diversely talented individuals.
We where invited by Evelyn Komuntale, Founder and Director of Outreach to Africa, to come and help her with her work in Fort Portal. Fort Portal is located 311 km west of Kampala and according to Wikipedia, has a population of approximately 45,000. Once we where there you quickly realize that the population numbers that Wikipedia has are greatly lower than the actual numbers. Fort Portal and surrounding area probably has at least twice that number.
The group I traveled with, (Streams of Hope), had been raising monies towards the building of recreation/sports center for a school that was to be the main project that we would be working on once we arrived. Our goal is to raise $30,000 and we had approximately $18,000 of that before leaving for this trip, which would have been more than enough to help start the project. The thing about mission trips that you have to be very flexible.
Once we arrived and got to talk with Evelyn directly, she told us that she had run into problems with the workers that where suppose to have started the foundation of the building. The workers had wanted to just lay the foundation of building right at ground level, but being in an earthquake area the actual footings had to be dug out and placed approximately 7 feet deep. Evelyn had to fire these workers and the footings where not in place when we arrived so building of the recreation center couldn’t be started.
But as with any good director, she had other projects lined up for us to work on. The school that she had built was almost ready to open but there will still a few things that needed to be done before opening day. A kitchen had to be finished and temporary showers had to be installed so that she would be allowed to run the school as a boarding school. So instead of building a recreation center (which is still in the plans to be done), our work crew immediately began working on finishing her kitchen and getting the showers installed. I know that it sounds elaborate but I have added some pictures so that you can see that their quality of life standards by no means meets what we have here in Canada.
Starting the kitchen
Adding kitchen bricks
Kitchen trusses finally up
Pouring the kitchen floor
Shower install completed
So while the work crew was working on getting the necessary things done so that Evelyn could open her school, the other team members had equally important things to do. In our team, there where 4 pastors that travelled to the local villages and ran ministry training programs with the local pastors and how to live a moral life and better serve the local people. We also had a few nurses on our team that traveled around running a medical clinic where they would perform first aid and AIDS testing as well. And lastly (but probably the most exciting) we had our children’s ministry team, which I was part of, that traveled to 12 different schools and ministered to over 10,000 children.
X-Ray Viewer
Clinic Room
Clinic Lab
Pastor Mark at a school
Nathan at a school
I found the trip to be a very inspiring experience that has added to my personal life and has motivated me to be a better person.
Below I have also added a video of some photos and video that I put together from the trip so that you can experience a little of what we had. If you would like to help out in any way with either Streams of Hope or Outreach to Africa please feel free to leave a comment on this site or contact me through Streams of Hope. info@desertstream.net
Tel: 613.968.5348
