Uganda LI-V update

What the Uganda team has been doing since they started in May!!

Our very own Charles is the co-director of the Uganda LI-V team! The director is Pastor Magezi who is Charles’ brother-in-law. Pastor Magezi and his wife and family recently lost their beautiful son at 10-years old. Charles is the child sponsorship coordinator for my Uganda ministry, His Love and SONshine, which partners with a locally run school in Uganda named Gateway Nursery and Primary School. The team did an event at Gateway Nursery and Primary School, the school I have a ministry for in Uganda. I will be sharing about the Gateway event soon so be on the lookout for the blog. 🙂

The first video is a summary of the first ever 40 Days for Life pro-life conference which then brought about the LI-V team!

The second video and pictures are of some of the LI-V team meeting Robert who is the Director of International Campaigns for 40 Days for Life! After the team met with Robert, Charles Byaruhanga took the LI-V Uganda team to Gateway Nursery and Primary School to meet the director of the school who is named Pastor Ernest and to meet Mama Catherine!! The LI-V team talked about their desire to educate the older children about pro-life at Gateway!!

Also, the LI-V Uganda team was able to do an amazing amazing out reach at the hospital in Uganda giving 20 Mama-kits!!! See the pictures below!!

The Gateway Nursery and Primary School event will be shared about in a future News post.

Charles Byaruhanga, who is the Co-director of LI-V Uganda, shared about the incredible time they all had at the hospital!

Charles shared about, “THE LI-V (LIFE INITIATIVE VALUE UGANDA) OUTREACH TO KASANGATI HEALTH CENTER 4 ON TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2024″

“We reached out to Kasangati Health Centre 4, a government hospital in the outskirts of Kampala, that serves on average of 400-500 patients daily. The hospital also registers a high number of pregnant women that include quite a big bunch of teenagers. On Tuesday June 18th, we were given an opportunity that we have long been striving and hoping to get, to talk to the pregnant woman who had visited this facility and to offer “Mama-kits” (a set of necessities used by the midwives when helping the woman giving birth at that moment of delivery) To our great astonishment, the number of pregnant women present was in excess of 100 and that caused the midwife in charge to devise a means of identifying the pregnant teenage girls whom she set apart so that we could talk to them and give them the Mama-kits we had brought without making the other women feel ignored. The trick looked good but even then, the numbers of the teenage girls also was in the excess of 40 and that still meant that not all of them received the Mama-kits however they all received very powerful pieces of verbal encouragement to keep their babies and not get persuaded or coerced by any situation to abort. We offered open hands to anyone of them to reach us for help whenever they face a situation that potentially leads them to carry out abortion.”

“There was a great sense of gratitude and joy in the faces of all the young women we talked to. Especially those that also received the Mama-kits on top of the general counseling session we were able to give. As we were about to leave the facility, boom… another big door fell open for us to keep visiting the facility to speak to the youths who usually visit the facility on Mondays and Fridays to receive youth friendly services. The hospital in charge, having been blown away by our session with the women, felt compelled to give several sessions to speak to the young people on how and why it is important to stand for the lives of the unborn children. In general the outreach was so successful and it simply exceeded our expectations. We would like to thank Rachel Mary and Suzanne for the support rendered in getting the Mama-kits and for the overall encouragement.”