Bridget, Steve and Terry have recently returned from their visit to UWCM and are looking forward to sharing news in the Spring Newsletter which is due out shortly. They were able to spend valuable time with staff as well as visiting some of the projects we support and, as always, came home extremely encouraged by all that UWCM are continuing to achieve despite ongoing budget restraints.
We had the privilege of meeting Margaret and Olive, two of the first women counsellors trained by UWCM, and whom we first met in 1995 and are still playing very active roles within their churches and communities. Details of their amazing lives will be in the newsletter.
We also took the craft activities at one of the 4 x young people’s conferences organised and run by UWCM. These conferences are very popular with parents and young people with 200 children and 150 parents/guardians attending over the whole period. The main goal is to share God’s love with both the children and their parents/guardians and so each day began with a time of worship and Bible study (click on the video below to hear their beautiful singing) and over the 4 day period, 94 young people and 8 parents gave their lives to Christ.
Staff covered topics such as people trafficking, modern day slavery, bullying and harrassment, drug & alcohol abuse, self-harming, anxiety & depression and each topic was backed up with scriptures. These are subjects which aren’t generally taught in schools or discussed within families and the young people found them extremely helpful and there were lots of good discussions around the topics. Each young person was given a pair of bed sheets as a leaving gift for which they were extremely thankful.
News of some of the other projects we visited will be added shortly.
Uganda Concern UK 
So lovely to see photos of the brilliant work you do for the young people, they really appreciate and enjoy your continued dedication to them, and learning valuable life lessons! Amazing voices, and so uplifting. Love to all