Events
Potters Village Trip 2010
In September 2009 a group of 4 people went out to South-West Uganda to help one of our mission partners in her work with HIV-AIDS orphans. Potters Village has been set up to help orphaned children to find a home, a family and future.
The Potter’s Village is a caring Christian community providing support and nurture for three categories of vulnerable children:
- Abandoned babies
- Babies whose families cannot provide for them or who need support to care for them
- Pregnant teenage girls and their babies
The Potter’s Village is a caring Christian community providing support and nurture for three categories of vulnerable children:
- Abandoned babies
- Babies whose families cannot provide for them or who need support to care for them
- Pregnant teenage girls and their babies
The story
Jenny Green, a youth pastor for the Church of Uganda in Kisoro, has a vision to reach out to destitute children in Christian love, within a Christian community. Many years of work and service for children, as well as experience gained from adopting two Ugandan babies, have combined with vision and inspirational leadership to bring this project into being.
Kisoro, Uganda
Kisoro, Uganda
In Kisoro there is a great struggle with poverty, AIDS, and wars in neighbouring areas, particularly in the Congo. While there is a strong Ugandan tradition to care for the wider family, there are many street children and young destitute families.
A recent visitor’s comment is a typical response to the very evident need:
“It was hard seeing the street kids at the youth camp trying to get food and it broke my heart when they were turned away.”
Long term forms of support for children that will take them out of the cycle of poverty and begging are desperately needed.
This project is a community-based organisation that the local Church oversees. The Church of Uganda has many and varied connections with the children and youth of the area, and so Jenny Green and her team are very well placed to understand and seek to provide for their needs in the best possible ways. Jenny is coordinator of children’s ministries in the diocese of Muhabara. The chief administrator of the Potter’s Village, Ezra, is a local man who has worked for Compassion previously.
The Potter’s Village aims to provide care and support for vulnerable children regardless of their race or creed. Care of each child is holistic and tending to all their needs. The Village aims to develop and maintain a family environment which is healthy and secure, giving needy children the optimum opportunity to thrive, develop and discover their full potential.
Support includes:
- Remedial nutrition
- Health and psychological care
- Education
- Family support
- Spiritual and social care
Parents, guardians and family members will be given support and training to enable them to provide for the children in their care; children will be placed with foster parents or rehabilitated with their families where possible.
The Village aims to be self-sufficient in basic needs, with its own cows, vegetable garden and trees for firewood.