MUSDAA visits COBURWAS Hoima hostels
From 9th to 11th October 2009, 29 students from Makerere University Seventh Days Adventist Association (MUSDAA) visited the COBURWAS Hoima in Hoima town. Students with different professions such Medical Doctors, lawyers, social workers, etc.
Items worth about 1 million UgX were donated, which included tanks of waters, saucepan, clothes, exercise books, some pairs of shoes, black boards, energy savers, padlocks etc.
COBURWAS family would like to say thank to MUSDAA for the great and valuable contribution towards Hoima Hostel. May the almighty God bless you all abundantly!!.
Doshi Hardware of Kampala visit Girls’ Hostel
On Tuesday October 6, Visitors from Doshi Hardware of Kampala, Uganda brought each of the girls five school notebooks. Thank you Doshi Hardware for your great partnership and care for our 65 girls. This school year they have donated pens, back-packs and notebooks. Thank you Mr. Asheet Soni, CEO and Priya Raval, Manager.
On August 29, Rabecca died after complications caused by the AIDS virus.
We at Think Humanity were heartbroken over the death of Ntamashakiro Rabecca, student at the COBURWAS Learning Centre in Kyangwali.
On August 29, Rabecca died after complications caused by the AIDS virus.
However, even in our grief we can find some joy, because Rabecca received six months of wonderful care, food, education and love at the CLC. Rabecca's last months were probably the best in her life because of the opening of the CLC February 2009.
Think Humanity would like to thank the Think Humanity managers, leaders of COBURWAS Club and teachers in Kyangwali for giving Rabecca so much love and care. We also thank Linda Kirscht, Rabecca’s sponsor through Think Humanity. We decided to donate the $100 sponsorship fee to the family members left behind. Her brother Seti, age four, is a student at the CLC.
Rabecca was a product of rape; her mother was raped by rebels in the Congo, and they gave her AIDS. Rabecca contracted AIDS from her mother’s breast milk and her mother later died from AIDS. Rabecca had been sickly most of her five years. Anti-retroviral (ARVs) are not available in Kyangwali. ARVs would have helped suppress the disease and given her the boost needed to her immune system, possibly giving her many more years of life. We are trying to find a way to provide ARVs in the future.
Thank you to all that donated on her behalf and that sent your sympathies and prayers. Thank you Program Manager/executive director of Coburwas Club-Ciyota, Wereje Benson for you idea of building a safe place for these orphans and refugee children where they can get a quality education. Thank you Amani Jean-Paul for all your work as project manager of the CLC, Daniel Muhwezi, Emmanuel Nsabimana, Kanizius Nsabimana and James Kazini for your love and volunteerism. Thank you teachers Lucy, Hariette, Adrine and Damien. Best Regards, Beth Heckel, Think Humanity