christmas time

its christmas time

The kids had serious diarhorea and dysentry and they also have fungal infections but thanks to stao givers for there support and there immediate response toward this!!!!!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU STAO GIVERS

Thanks you stao givers for being a voice for the voice less, and for making the kids live a happy life may God bless you

The new toilet

stao now has new toilet its really clean en good to have it will put some pics soon
the kids are all okey the senior fours are doing there final exams en the primary sevens are doing there finals starting on the first of november.......

some of the pics that show were some people or families get water from..
its really not healthy but thats the wat they have so they get sick very fast because of the water...... other pics are of some of the families that stao helps out we always visit them take wat we have atleast to keep them surviving and all that me bente kristine kari hollines simon went there en took salt,sugar en soap and there was also asick boy solomon who had aterrible wound it couldnt cure so we took him to hospital en yes we thank bente en kristine who funded his treatment en we thank God who healed him............

COMING SOON

when you are in your house en you ask for a glass of water just think of some children and some vulnerable people drinking water from rivers,lakes swamps en from dirty places? think about children who are sleeping on mats en have no blankets
will bring you pics of some of the families stao has recognised and they really need a hand.......

vacation

its vacation the kids are having a short vacation en they are all happy..
they got there reports and they performed well....
last week kari bente thomas en kristine left for norwey but we all miss them so very much en cant wait to see them them some time...........

vacation

EXAMINATION TIME

All kids are doing there exams and am doing the typing of exams for agape integrated nursery primary school and the teachers are doing the rest........
the kids are almost getting there vacation and getting ready for there final term in one months time...............0thers will be doing there primary seven final exams that will promote them to secondary, and others will be doing there senior four{ o'level) final exams and so on so all are eager for next term were they will move to the next step!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today it has been yet a wonderful day we went to the village were one widow is en we built her house which had been swept away by the rain and she had no were to stay but we tried our level best en soon she will have a shelter over her head........
bente.Kristina,Kari,Thomas,Sharon{me],holiness,Johnson ,Simon and some of the boys from the orphanage helped us too en that was katambula,i bra,Robert en Elijah we were all part of it it is really a good experience soon i will be an expert en am happy for that!!!!!!!!!!!!!
while there Kristina said she is too proud of helping out en she spoke this from her heart i felt it it really feels good en am proud toooooo for lending a helping hand in all that i do en i thank God yeah we are all proud...
we all came back full of mud en tired but it feels good after knowing that someone has some where to stay after a struggle and you were part of it!!!!!!!!!!!
will soon upload some pics so can see wat it looks like just keep on this link!!!!!!!!!!

W e have been doing lots of things en we thank God who has granted us his mercies en grace to do what we do with all our hearts and passion........
Kristina,Kari Thomas en bent e are really part of us in all that we do we are doing our best serving the kids,community en the widows we love it.......
we have visited families and we have helped them in a way we can and the rest to God...
this week we have worked on some profiles me and Kristine and then gone out for needs assessment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! more is to come soon will keep you updated

yeah we are all happy we have our family from norwey.
kristina,bente,kari and timothy we have started working already will update you soon on all our activities

The new kitchen is so great and wonderfully constructed,
it has tiled stoves and saves firewood its really agreat thing that God has given unto us so we send our thanks to the stao givers who funded the construction......some of the pics are there........
yet another achievement is the matatu{taxi} its also here we are really blessed!!!!!!!!!!

THE NEW KITCHEN

COMING SOON

IS STORIES OF SOME OF THE KIDS WERE THEY CAME FROM,AND WHAT THEY WENT THROUGH BEFORE COMING TO STAO,AND THEN HOW THEY ARE RIGHT NOW.........................

hey am so happy we have akool kitchen here at the orphanage
no more worries about the rain!!!!!!!!!!

Hey back again the kids are all fine  thats the best ican say

pastor bought for them school requirements like brooms,manila papers and toilet paper rolls

so they went back to school happy!!!!!!!!!!!! no more go back home for requiremnets may be school fees..........

Today is the 24th of may its the day the kids are supposed to resume school
for the second term.
we thank God that we had books.that megan,clain and candance had bought and also christina,alexandra and christian bought more books,calculators,rulers and pencils.we are happy though school fees hasn't been paid in but we pray that God makes away were they seem to be no way.
All kids woke up at 5:30am to do the cleaning like make there beds,sweep the compound and lay there beds,bath and prepare for school since its the first day they don't send them away for school fees,they are now back for lunch and then back to school.
they are happy to be in school and we really do appreciate all the help that comes in mostly form our donors be blessed will keep you updated.....................

It wasnt asimple game though we were supposed to walk on crates of soda assuming we are crossing a river.we were four and they were three crates of soda,without stepping down yet we ahad to reach our destination and also one of us goes back to pick the rest.christian had his group,diana and me we also had our groups it was achallenging game but it was fun...........and educative i learnt how to hundle difficult situations and also team work and all the kids learnt which is very good...

during the leisure time

christian from norwey with some of the kids
during the supper time.......oops he had finished his food aleady
and so he started posing for pics since everybody was serious
on there delicious meals.christian and kachamu were too satisfied to stand

one of the widows bathroom in the village

candance megan and the kids during there stay at the orphanage
they enjoyed there stay here candance is agood dancer

during one of the examination peace the teacher and clain helping out to write the kids names

on our way to the haome assessments me,mark,clain,manuel
going to visit homes,

some of the kids with megan happy moments
all smiling and happy to be afamily

during the home visits giving out stuff like soap en salt to the widows
and to foster homes with some of the volunteers.

from ahospital visitation with the voluteers from  usa thats megan,candance,clain and pastor johnmark okile just standing right outside the hospital

shanita serving some of the guests on her birthday and all the others were just looking on will try to upload some more pics soon of the party it was held in the church hall and everyone had fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!hahahahahahahahahahahaha patricia wanted more cake.....................
Shanita blowing candles on her cake after making a wish.
she was with Elvis,Patricia,patience, Alvin, and Tracy who are almost in the same age group with her.she was so happy behind shanita is our cook who baked the cake it was yummy!!!!!!!!!
BITHDAY PARTY
Today has been shanita's birthday one of the kids at the orphanage.
we had awonderful time with all the kids we ate and took lots of drinks it was fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
all the kids were so happy en excited to party along.we had bubbles that christina,alexzandra and christian brought for us so he had to use them during the cutting of the cake.our cook(jaaja carol)she is judith though made us abig yammy cake lol is was delicious ooh my God i thank God shanita is four years now en i pray GOD keeps that cute smile on her forever......................AMEN.
pastor peter prayed for her and johnmark okile and joy babirye still one of the kids at the orpahnage were the mc's it was so funny that joy was just shying away and the kids were reffering to her as "katala"meaning someone who is like acoward.
the whole party was wow thanks to God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
pastor nelson missed it out because he had atight schedule........but next birthday party i pray he attends in person........gosh am so tired today!!!!!!!!!!!

Sharon and Merethe shopping

sharon doing shopping with merethe

an african drum,bag en Jesus on the cross statue from the african craft shops in uganda

from there we went to the market with simon to buy fo the kids clothes we had awonderful time

merethe did not want to stop shopping lol we also bought underwears for the boys en gals.there is ibra,emmanuel en elijah posing with them on there heads as though they were head gears hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Photos of the children

The kids love to play with ballons :-D MERETHE AND GEORGE CAME ALONG WITH THE BALOONS 














Pastor Nelson and the children











SAM AND ALVIN CHILLING 














Welcome to STAO! THE KIDS ALL HAPPY TO SEE VISITORS THEY ARE ALL WELCOMING

Do you want to taste our food? ITS SO TASTY AND YAMMY PLIZ COME JOIN US 

MUTESI,SOFIE EN SHAMMY HAVING THERE LUNCH ON THE VEROUNDER OF THERE DOMITORY

Who are you, taking a photo of me?

SARAH IS A SERIOUS CHILD

Read my t-shirt! I BE FOR JESUS WHO YOU BE FOR

SHE HAS ACOOL,LOVING SMILE

I am happy to get a new shirt! BRIAN SO SMART EN EXCITED

Honest interview

We are having fun together ;-)

Photos from STAO

DAY 2 OF MA BLOG

just have alittle cold but will be fine.....its so amazinng to have ablog
i just did one or two things en it has been bright so bright ohh my GOD...THE KIDS WITH SMILES ON THEIR FACES...will soon upload pics so you can check out ma pics,the kids,my sisters,ma father,and many of ma friends,so many more.

SHARON ANDSAVE THE AIDS ORPHANS

SAVE the AIDS ORPHANS IS an orphanage that helps the orphans who are victims due to HIV Aids,widows and those who are vulnerable.its so good here and to work with kids its a blessing for me and getting stay with many kids in the same environment i love it here its been long while Ive been working with stao here in Uganda

New experiences,challenges the way to handle cases its really amazing am so glad to serve God in such away of helping kids with what i can........

Save the aids orphans does lots of things.widows empowerment,HIV/AIDS awareness and so many i will keep you updated

Save the aids orphans is a christian based organization which was started by pastor Nelson lufafa who is the director so its fun here!!!!!!!!!!!!!