Kyengera Well Project
Location of the Project: Mpigi, Mpigi District in Central Uganda We are in the process of having surveys completed to determine if we can drill to the water table at the Kyengera Church Home. We believe this to be extremely important since there is no access to water (outside of trucking it in at great expense and storing it in tanks) and, in addition to the home, there is a Primary School on the site. Pastor Muhamed Rogers dreams of expanding the school to include Secondary classrooms as well as a central playground area with a net ball court, so water is very necessary.
UPDATE!
Kyengera now has piped running water from the city thanks to generous donors! What joy! Thank you!
Bukasa-Buloba Well Project
Location of the project: Wakiso District in central Uganda Marissa's House Project was HONORED to have funded ($8,000) another fresh water well for the Bukasa-Buloba Church Home in Uganda. The project included surveys, drilling and installation of a borehole (well), on the grounds of the Church Home.
Something so basic and so simple that we take for granted can mean EVERYTHING to children in Africa.
Marissa’s dream of blessing the children of Africa continues!
Welenchity Class Rooms Building Completion Project
Location of the project: - Oromiya Administrative region, Welenchity, Ethiopia
The Welenchity Emmanuel United Church is serving their community not only in spiritual ways but also socially by trying to fulfill the needs of community. Due to the high percentage of poverty in the village many children do not go to school, and many of them drop out from school at an early age because the available school is very far from their village. To solve this problem the church opened a school a few years ago to teach academics as well as offer spiritual and moral education.
The school teaches more than 500 children from nursery up to grade 1. But the need of child education in the community was beyond their capacity and there were not enough classrooms. Marissa's House Projects was awarded a $3,500.00 Grant from the MDRT Foundation Worldwide Grant to fund the completion of 6 classrooms that were already under construction.
Wonjishowa School Textbook Project
Location of the project: Oromiya Administrative region, Wonjishowa Town, Ethiopia The Wonjishowa School project started almost 9 years ago. There are approximately 900 students attending the school from Kindergarten up to Grade 8. At the beginning of the 2015/2016 education season, about 80 students transferred to Grade 9, creating an immediate need for the school to provide textbooks for these students. This is one of the requirements of the Ethiopian government that must be fulfilled in order to obtain a permit license to be able to offer Grade 9 within the school compound. If Grade 9 was not offered, these students would not be able to continue their high school education. As a result of continuing education for these children, the eventuality of living in abject poverty is lessened and the hope is that they will continue to grow into productive, participating citizens who are able to provide for themselves and their families. Marissa's House Projects was able to fund the purchase of 80 sets of Grade 9 textbooks in the following subjects: Mathematics English Amharic (the native language of Ethiopia) Physics Chemistry Biology Civic Education Geography History
