Exciting Times Begin Again!

The team is selected and now we start to get ready for another amazing journey to the Pearl of Africa.

Corey, Karine and I have the pleasure of travelling with 7 new team members to work at the Eva Ruf Resource Center and at the Sanyu Babies' Home. We'll be in Kampala longer this year than last year: a full 2 weeks on the ground with extra days on the front and back for travel.

We hope to get to Jinja, the source of the Nile, to see another orphanage that Karine loves dearly. We will also have the opportunity to visit local markets, visit with Ugandans, eat amazing Chinese food (!) at Fang Fangs, and experience a wonderful wildlife safari with Denis at Dynamik Safaris.

Corey is going to be our photo journalist to take photos and record our adventure in the hopes of creating a calendar, prints and cards to raise money for Niteo upon our return. He also wants to teach teachers how to create websites to promote their schools and hopes this will be possible at the resource center.

So fundraising begins afresh too and again I can offer you a tax receipt for any donation over $20.00. Please make your cheques out to Hope for the Nations and put Niteo on the memo line before you send the cheque to me. Your tax receipt will be mailed to you in January 2010.

You can also donate directly to Corey and I if you want to contribute toward our vaccinations or if you want us to buy something specific for the kids we will be working with. Here are some things that we want to take:

1. LEGO! LEGO! LEGO! We want to take as much as we can; suitcases full if possible!
2. new cloth diapers
3. new clothes for newborns to 3 yr olds
4. toothbrushes and toothpaste (ask your dentist for a donation)
5. chalk brushes for the schools
6. current world maps
7. Science equipment (non-breakable things like magnets, springs, pulleys ...)
8. new games
9. craft supplies like paper, construction paper, pipe cleaners, glue sticks ...
10. books for kids and teachers (however, these may not travel until next year as we are filling another container for shipment in 2010)

Thanks again to those who donated last year. I really appreciate your generosity.

Keep checking back here for my (more frequent than last year!) updates and check out the Niteo website: www.niteoafrica.org to see the great updates that Corey is doing now.