Fight For The Children Celebrates Its First Year

A group of seven including, founder Brad Berg and project coordinator, Kathryn Morgan, were in Kabale Uganda on July 21, 2007, as Fight For The Children celebrated its 1st year. The team was received by Ambassador Browning at the US Embassy upon their arrival in Kampala and met with the Hon. Sseguje Batte, Ugandan Minister of Rural Development. During these talks, they started an official collaboration with the Ugandan government to begin the groundwork for a clinic in the western province of Mbende.

After their time in Kampala, they traveled to Kabale, Uganda, to work on our clinic there. The team spent a week painting, scraping, cleaning, and patching the four buildings which will make up the new "International Children's Medical Center-Kabale, a FFTC sponsored clinic". The interiors of three of the buildings are finished, the outsides of two are completely painted and the grounds are groomed. The center is on track to open on September 1, 2007 with a grand opening planned for the end of October or beginning of November. (We will post pictures of the clinic upon our return.)

The group was also enthusiatically received by the Nyanyomi Secondary School students. They performed traditional African dances and sang amazing harmony at the spur of the moment. The scouts then surprised the team by helping out with the clinic for their entire last day in Kabale - and what hard workers they were! The team sponsored four students from the school, including Tom - he is the scout master, 4th in his class, and has only his mother to support him, Augustine - first in his class with aspirations to be a pediatrician who lost both his parents in a car crash last year and lives with his grandmother, Doreen, and Christopher. Many more students are in need of scholarships and we will post their pictures upon our return. Many of the students sang beautiful hymns while they worked contributing to the perfect anniversary day.

Tomorrow the team travels back to Kampala to meet with Minister Batte once again and then on to Dunga Kenya to set up the clinic there. They will be meeting with K-MET to discuss the feeding program at the school, hiring the staff clinical officer and, of course, more painting.

Thank you to everybody who has believed in us over these last months.  We look forward to growing over the years to come; the need is vast and we are poised to make a significant contribution to the children of this region obtaining healthy, productive lives. Please forward our site to any you think may be interested or in a position to help these wonderful children.

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