Greetings from Nakaale! June 3, 2013

Dear friends,

Many thanks to those who hosted us when we were in the States last year - and greetings to those we haven't seen in awhile!

We've added our new newsletter to our KEO website. Please take a look! We hope you enjoy it. Please feel free to forward this to anyone you think might be interested in our work.

We've been working toward starting the Karamoja Education Outreach for years now and are really ecstatic that it's getting off the ground. If you'd like more information about it, check the site and also befriend us on Facebook! If you have ideas, suggestions, or want to be involved, please also let me know.

We'd love to hear what all is going on with you, too, since we're not able to visit everyone in person as often as we'd like.

Blessings,
Martha

Martha Wagar Wright, Ph.D.
marthakaramoja@gmail.com

KEO (Karamoja Education Outreach)

For more on the preschool go to the website: Karamoja Education Outreach. Please continue to pray and contribute if you can!!

Karamoja Education Outreach

We are in the beginning stages of a new venture for our mission. We are starting a school! Check out this website to find out more. We need your prayers and financial assistance. Please spread the word! If you have any questions, please e-mail Martha Wright: marthakaramoja@gmail.com. Thank you!!

Karamoja Education Outreach

Movies and Photos

Videos and photos from Uganda!

Mick/Muddy Trip including Pastor Mick Knierim, who was the stand-in for Bob while we were on furlough.  In several pictures he's leading morning staff devotions.

In the picture with me & Leila Shelburne & Leah Hopp - that's when we arrived in Mbale after 8 1/2 hours on the road (to go 110 km!).  Leila was Rachel's good friend growing up here, from the Church of Christ Mission in Mbale - currently she attends Harding University & this summer was doing a research project in linguistics & anthropology.

The Friesens & Derek picture is of our friend Derek Johnson, the Director of Cure Children's Hospital in Mbale, who is a fantastic support to all our mission & a wonderful friend.  The Friesens are his wife Julie's parents, who were doing Marriage & Family seminars while they were here.  They have done counseling & teaching for decades and are some of the loveliest people we've met!

After one of our long trips there was a rainbow over Nakaale.  We're still digging around for that pot of gold...

September 2012

 A look back at September, 2012

We had to wait for days for our teammates the Tuiningas' container to clear.  We were there with our teacher, Emily, Phil, from Rochester NY (RP).  We visited a number of schools while we were waiting to be called into action, all in the Mbale area - first a nursery school at Bungokho Rural Development Center.  We've been friends with those folks for years - it's run by the Church Missionary Society out of the UK, the same org. as sent Miss. David Livingstone so long ago!  We were also interested in seeing their rabbit project, as that could be something very good for the Karimojong, too.

We went to the Namatala slum in Mbale where many K'jong live.  We were happy to see their standard of living was much higher than we had expected, and that some folks have begun an excellent primary school.  Many children were shocked to hear us greet them in their own language, Karimojong!

Another nursery school is run by a Korean missionary, Deborah, who has also been a good friend to our mission in Mbale.  One of our Mbale OPCU pastors even sends his twins there.  There are at least 30 Korean missionary families in Uganda, from one denomination alone, and many more throughout East Africa.

We also went to the pool one day with the Tuiningas.  We were tired of waiting for the container!  We also went out to lunch, went to the internet cafe in town & had some awesome coffee!!! 

You can see some of the process of bringing in the Tuiningas' container.  All was well in the end!