News: Archive
Your Gift has transformed 20 Lives in 12 weeks
THANK YOU, because your monthly gifts has made this possible!!
We can now look back to lots of blessings in 2009
Dutch Chairman visits the project
This week our Dutch Chairman; Marrianne Zeldenrust paid a visit to our project in Tororo.
The work continues bit-by-bit as we struggle to keep up with the builders. Most of the waiting is on the 2 tipping-trucks that are hauling all the rocks to fill the rest of the foundation.
The work on the 1st classroom block progresses nicely
The work on the school-block continues
Grace is preparing the donated library books
Happy faces for new shoes!
When someone looks like Santa, you immediately expect gifts. And in this case surely Jakobus has come with gifts
Official Dedication and opening
On the 6th of Feb 2009 it has finally happened! We've had the official dedication & opening of our new mission compound.
It's 1 day to the opening date and some of the guardians came to the orientation day that we organized
The pictures from the Mühlrad - Group
working on the lions-park in Tororo
the visiting team from ICM Canada has helped to face lift the park where the children of Tororo can now play again!
Football tournament in Germany for Heart for Children
Team ECOstyle from The Netherlands
They are taking up the challenge to create the first of the SOLAR REFLECTORS that hopefully will steam up our kitchen here in Osia
This year again like usual, Piet Zeldenrust came over to do some dental work on our children
This year we are also having a team from Roseville (CA) USA over and they are working on the next dormitory.
Weigele & sons active in building the 2nd block of the 2nd dormitory in Osia- Tororo
The Ruess family together with Rudi & Jakobus came in April 2010 to start the work of the second dormitory for the primary school at Osia - Tororo
Here in Uganda we call him Fred as his dutch name is rather difficult to get your tongue around when you are an English speaking African.
Muehlrad group gives a helping hand
The dormitories are taking shape!
Jakobus, Steffen and Traudel have come for a short visit to Osia and decided to help a little with painting some more children's bedrooms.
Rien de Braal, volunteer in Osia, Uganda
Rien is again in Uganda, this time to fix the tiles in the bathroom of the children.
Matthias Weigele plants a palm-tree near the entrance of the Educational Children's Village
the Go-Team has helped to plant the first tree
The soil in Osia is rather difficult for planting a tree but with sweat and blisters we managed to plant a mango tree at the entrance of the mission.
The Dutch Go-Team is helping to make the start!
Bedrooms are now being painted
Bettina, Janine and Giuseppe have come from Germany to help in Osia
Go-Team from Holland visiting Tororo
Term1: 31 Jan -> 22 Apr
Term2: 23 May -> 12 Aug
Term3: 05 Sep -> 02 Dec
This week the builders are pulling up the walls of the classes.
This week we are busy casting the columns.
Project progress School-Block Wk40-2010
The work on the SchoolBlock continues...
Casting the first column for the school
Saturday the 18th of September 2010 we had the pleasure of casting the first bit of the new school building. Prayers were offered by Children & Staff
On Sunday, 11 July 2010, two bombs went of simultaneously in Kampala,killing at least 75 people
While the normal school work is continuing, there is also a lot of work taking place behind the scenes...
This is what the project now looks like from the mountain right behind the highway
The new bore-hole has received it's electric pump!
Today, the electricity company has placed the high voltage (33KV) transformer. Even though we do not have it connected yet, it is very promising.
The first brick on the dormitories
Together with the Dutch Go-Team, Cor & Grace placed the first foundation stone for the dormitories in Osia, Tororo
here is the latest airphoto, taken from the Osia mountain.
Statistics according to the Ugandan Ministry of Gender, Labor and Social Affairs
When we see a miraculous provision like this one, we may assume God is at work.
Roof tiles make our dormitory SHINE!
From a distance the project just started looking so much better with the roof tiles on our fist dormitory block.
In preparation for the expected rain-season we have plated 100 traditional African trees
The installation that will make living in this children's village possible is getting ready soon.
our neighbors are fighting
After some hard work we have selected a new class of children for this years P1 class.
In the photo the children with their guardians.
a letter from the heart from Wandera, one of the children, to Cor & Grace Koelewijn
Looking for 24 new children for P1-2010
Yes, each year we are looking for a whole new class full of 24 children for our Primary One Class.
This year Grace has started early...
Exactly on my birthday, Kimberly Wallace comes with some very nice gifts for the children of Osia. Each child gets a brand new towel and a pair of sports shoes.
This is what our dinner time looks like...
We have placed a brand new page on the site which shows where we are on google maps:
http://www.heart4children.org/en/about-us/where-we-are.htm
Cor celebrated his 50th birthday on the 10th of August
Cor & Grace & Family Back in Uganda
After a tour of 2 months, visiting friends, family and supporters, the Koelewijn family is back in Tororo. Just in time for the beginning of the new school-year.
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NEWS
PHILIP, AND 70 OTHER KIMBILIO CHILDREN ARE HOPING FOR A SPONSOR THIS YEAR
04.01.12 - Hi, my name is Olwenyi Philip.
I have been promoted to the P3 Class but since I came last year I have not yet found a sponsor... [more]
Google Maps
10.11.11 - After a long time google has update Tororo on their maps and we can now be seen from satellite. [more]
Visitors Beryl Voorhoeve & Ilja Witte in Uganda
05.10.11 - Beryl & Ilja have come from the LEG church in Aalsmeer (Netherlands) [more]
