News

Since March 2020, due to government COVID-19 restrictions, our Nursery and Primary schools have remained closed. 

It was with a mixture of joy and sadness that earlier this month we welcomed this critically vulnerable newborn baby, our 54th child, into our Bethel Babies Home.  

We are urgently requesting funds to re-surface the only access road to the FOP village and school.  Currently, it is a significant danger to all who attempt to negotiate the road on any sort of vehicle from boda-boda (motorbike) to lorry.

Some of our older Babies' Home children are now ready to move on to a Family Home.  We are working hard to complete this, our 6th house, in spite of COVID and funding challenges. 

Following our news item in March 2020, here is an update on how Covid-19 continues to impact FOP.  Despite challenges, we have been able to assist the local community in providing food aid to a number of schoolchildren's families.

In January/February 2020, we were delighted to take a team of 13 from the UK to spend time at the Fountain of Peace project at Miranga village, Kyenjojo, Western Uganda.

In Uganda, our teams are also making adjustments. We just wanted to fill you in on all we are doing to support our children, our staff, and the wider community in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

As part of our drive towards becoming self-sustainable, we have been able to add 2 silos each capable of holding 6 tons of grain.

We are so grateful to some of our fundraising champions who in the last 6 months raised funds for FOP.

Thanks to the generosity of one of our donors, the Fountain of Peace school (Rwenjaza Hillside Nursery/Primary School) has been able to purchase new school furniture.

One of our supporters in the south of England, Pippa Sands, is training very hard to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in February 2019 on behalf of Fountain of Peace.

May we take this opportunity to wish you all God’s richest blessing over this Christmas period. 

We are so thankful to everyone for supporting the Snowdon climb in September. 

Just back from Uganda and witnessed great joy in result of joint Local Gov and UNICEF inspection of Fountain of Peace Bethel Babies Home 2 weeks ago. 

As we have just recently reached the end of this financial year, it’s good to review just what, through God’s grace, Fountain of Peace Uganda and its partners have been enabled to deliver. 

In February 2018, a team of 15 from the UK spent eight days at the Fountain of Peace project at Miranga village, Kyenjojo, Western Uganda.

Having returned from Uganda just under a week ago, I can honestly say that I’ve been completely blown away by this latest trip.

Having just returned from another very successful week in Kyenjojo, this time for an audit and forward planning visit, we have so much to be thankful to God for.

We were all delighted to acquaint ourselves with the 36 children at the Bethel Babies Home and Conlon House (our 1^st Family Home). 

FOP have recently taken possession of a machine that, God willing, will save a shedload of money for us.

How amazing to know that our great God entrusts to us the responsibility of caring for the little babes that He loves so dearly. 

A team of 8, comprising 3 men & 5 ladies, visited the Project. 

During March 2015 Andrew was privileged to visit the project along with Keith Shortley, who specialises in developing strategic planning for projects such as FOP. 

It’s now 9 months since our 1^st baby arrived at FOP Bethel Babies Home and we currently have 15 babies, cared for by our dedicated staff.

Currently 314 children are registered at the school, who would otherwise have had no schooling.

It was a real joy to have Peace with us for 2 weeks in February.

There are always ongoing maintenance matters to be addressed at the project.

Within the last 24 hours we have been really excited to learn of the arrival of 2 more babies, now making a total of 4.

We were all so thrilled to hear the wonderful news from Peace and Patrick yesterday about the admission of the first baby to Bethel Babies Home.

A refrigerator and a gas cooker were purchased, chest drawers, baby cots and a sofa set ordered and nearing completion. They will all be transported at once to the home in Kyenjojo next week.