{"id":2708,"date":"2012-08-23T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/redletters\/?p=2708"},"modified":"2012-08-23T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T13:41:00","slug":"a-week-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2012\/08\/a-week-in-uganda.html","title":{"rendered":"A Week in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2710\" title=\"100_0155\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/104\/2012\/08\/100_0155-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>This week, a group of volunteers from &#8220;The Orphans of Teso&#8221; are visiting their two CarePoints in Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>To get a glimpse of what they&#8217;re doing, their leaders are posting a day-by-day journal of activities. Here are some highlights:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The New Well is Now Flowing:\u00a0<\/strong>Americans and Ugandans celebrated the new well, which included the formation of the &#8220;well committee.&#8221; That committee is made up entirely of Ugandans who will set small but fair usage rates for the community. Funds generated by the well go into a maintenance fund to keep the well in working order.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Hope for Widows, Orphans and Vulnerable Children:\u00a0<\/strong>They visited children in their homes, checking in on their progress since their last visit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Pictures for Sponsors.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Over 4 hours were spent taking pictures of kids at the CarePoint for sponsors and sponsors-to-be.<\/p>\n<p>Reading through their <a href=\"http:\/\/ramblingalien.blogspot.com\/\">blog posts<\/a> will give you much more detail, photo, and video of their trip. Please check out their trip blog, and consider how you can <a href=\"http:\/\/ramblingalien.blogspot.com\/\">sponsor one of the children at the Bukedea CarePoint<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, a group of volunteers from &#8220;The Orphans of Teso&#8221; are visiting their two CarePoints in Uganda. To get a glimpse of what they&#8217;re doing, their leaders are posting a day-by-day journal of activities. 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