Bunabumali Chronicle

Dear friends ! As for sure l apologize for making you disturbed all the time As many of you have been following Bunabumali project updates we had too much needs since we have no Donors helping the children we only depend on friends like you who send us 1$ or 1 Pound to help us pay like Beans,Maize ( Corn ) and Basic needs. For the next coming season we shall be having bananas which l planted to help us move to the next season having some food but as per now we are opening the school with almost Nothing to help us move with the children so please your hand on 1 Penny or 1 Dollar makes one children smile http://bunabumali.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=21:donations Three Bullets There once was a man who had nothing for his family to eat. He had an old rifle and three bullets. So, he decided that he would go out hunting and kill some wild game for dinner. As he went down the road, he saw a rabbit. He shot at the rabbit and missed it. The rabbit ran away. Then he saw a squirrel and fired a shot at the squirrel and missed it. The squirrel disappeared into a hole in a cottonwood tree. As he went further, he saw a large wild ‘Tom’ turkey in the tree, but he had only one bullet remaining. A voice spoke to him and said, ‘Pray first, aim high and stay focused. However, at the same time, he saw a deer which was a better kill. He brought the gun down and aimed at the deer. But, then he saw a rattlesnake between his legs about to bite him, so he naturally brought the gun down further to shoot the rattlesnake. Still, the voice said again to him, ‘I said ‘Pray, Aim high and Stay focused.’ So, the man decided to listen to God’s voice. He prayed, then aimed the gun high up in the tree and shot the wild turkey. The bullet bounced off the turkey and killed the deer. The handle fell off the gun and hit the snake in the head and killed it. And, when the gun had gone off, it knocked him into a pond. When he stood up to look around, he had fish in all his pockets, a dead deer and a turkey to eat for his family. The snake (Satan) was dead simply because the man listened to God. Moral of the story: Pray first before you do anything, aim and shoot high in your goals, and stay focused on God. Never let others discourage you concerning your past. The past is exactly that, ‘the past.’ Live every day one day at a time and remember that only God knows our future and that he will not! put you through any more than you can bear. Do not look to man for your blessings, but look to the doors that only He has prepared in advance for you in your favor. Wait, be still and patient: keep God first and everything else will follow. Your help and support is always appreciated My mom always told me that we could never measure our wealth by money but by our friends. She would surely be glad to meet you and know how rich I turned out to be! I’m glad friendship doesn’t come with price tags. For if it does, I’d never afford someone as great as you friends of Bunabumali project . God in heaven, God above, please protect the friend I love who keeps the children of God in his or her heart. Sent with a smile, sealed with a kiss, I love my friend who’s reading this as from the Bottom of my heart. A friend is sweet when it is new. And it is sweeter when it is true. But you know what? It is sweetest when it is you praying for the children of God to be well. A coin is easy to earn, a friend is hard to find. The coin depreciates but a friend appreciates. I lost a coin when I l was going to Town but l have you as friends to my children. A smile makes us look younger. while prayers make us feel stronger. and friends.? They make us enjoy life forever bunabumali is having wonderful prayers. Each day God sends His angels to guide us in bunabumali and across the world. We don’t expect to see them with wings, or with halo flying above their heads. Instead, they come in disguise and we call them friends. Thank you for being an angel to me and the children of God who are far many miles from your homestead ! A friend is like a book that has to be read to appreciate its beauty. As such, you’re one of the finest books ever written. How I wish you could be reprinted and we always see you al the time ! What are the differences between a Dollar and a friend? A dollar is easy to earn, a friend is hard to find. A dollar loses its value, a friend increases its worth. I don’t have a dollar but I have you as my friend to my children ! A single candle can illuminate an entire room. A true friend lights up an entire lifetime of friends in Bunabumali project . Thanks for the bright lights of your friendship. Friendship is a gift that is fair in all things. It roots from one’s heart and involves memories that stay not for a while but for a lifetime. If you open my heart, guess what you are gonna see? It’s you. True friends are hard to find so I kept you and love the way you help children. What is a friend? She looks out for you, inspires you, laughs with you, cries with you, understands you, guides you and walks with you. That’s what a friend is !! A friend is a push when you have stopped, a chat when you are lonely, a guide when you are searching, a smile when you are sad, a song when you are glad. Colors may fade, the sun may not shine, the moon may not be bright, heartbeats may stop, lives may pass but our friendship, I’ll treasure ‘till the day my heart stops. I don’t regret the things I have done and the things I didn’t do. For somewhere along the way I must have done something right coz I ended up with a friend like you who helps my children to get what to eat and feed well. I may have forgotten to say that I care. I may have failed to open up and share, but though no words have been spoken, my promise of friendship won’t be broken until l achive what l have in mind . Time and distance are important between friends. When a friend is in your heart, they remain there forever. I may be busy, but I assure you, you are always in my heart! I was never tired of this life and it’s not gonna matter if I fall down twice, coz I know each time I fall, you won’t let me hit the ground. Thanks for being around in times of hardship and joy. Friends are gifts wrapped in ribbons of thoughtfulness and trimmed with kisses and smiles, given by God to stay not just for a day, but for life. Thanks! Some friends are remembered because of their smile,prayers,help and gifts offered . Some friends are remembered because of their style. But you are remembered because you are so nice to remember. Take care. Someday you may lose your hair, your teeth, your looks, or even your memory. But there’s something you won’t lose. Me and children of God in Bunabumali, coz I’ll always be your friend. I won’t promise to be your friend forever, coz I won’t live that long. But let me be your friend as long as I live with children of God . I thank God I’m rich not with money but with people like you friends who care and love me and children . I may not have the most expensive things but I’ve got a most precious gem. a friend like you. I admit I’ll never be the perfect friend. I’ll never be there always. I may not make you smile at times but there is one thing I admit I could do. To be the person I could be for you. Friends are like the walls of a house. Sometimes they hold you up, sometimes you lean on them. But sometimes, it’s enough to know they’re just standing by in hardship and happiness. Keep me as a friend and I will keep you in my heart and lock it up. I’ll throw away the key so that no one can take you away from me. Some joys are better explained in silence, as a smile gets more audible than laughter. I was asked if I enjoyed my friendship with you. I just smiled and kissed my Pillow . If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn’t jump with them; I’d be at the bottom to catch them coz they care and love my children and myself. Thank you for touching my life in ways you may never know. My riches do not lie in material wealth but in having friends like you - a precious gift from God! I always thought loving someone is the greatest feeling, but I realized that loving a friend is even better. We lose people we love, but we never lose true friends. Some friends are separated by time. Some are separated by differences. Some by distances, some by pride. But no matter how far you are or different we may be, you’ll always be a friend to me and the children of God ! There is a golden bridge called friendship that spans the river of time and links out hearts together even if we walks separate roads of life. In my dreams, we were never apart. In my dreams you kept me close. In my dreams you loved me the most. In my dreams we’re always together. Might as well be dreaming forever.

Hello all… I am back in Uganda for a couple months to develop arts, agriculture and cultural exchange projects in Bunabumali, a small mountain village with a high population of youth orphaned by AIDS and landslides.

In 2008, I spent a week in Bunabumali to donate sewing machines and make hammocks for the needy. Since then we have sent money for them to continue making hammocks to give out freely and sell to support the orphanage run by the Nakhokho family.

I am currently in Kampala, the capital, with Casey Yerxa, director of Kidsing, a singing, dancing and acting school based out of KV High school in Quispamsis, NB. Norman Nakhokho is hosting us here at his home and we will be moving with him to Bunabumali tomorrow with fabric to make more hammocks, and a lots of fun and useful things for the orphanage. Casey is currently touring the city with Miracle, a friend she met online, who works for the TV station here in Kampala. Miracle may join us in Bunabumali to help film and edit the documentary we are creating collectively to help bridge the gap between youth in New Brunswick and youth in Uganda.

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After returning home from Uganda in 2008, I did a presentation at a Rotary club where I was asked by one man, “Do you think the Africa problem will ever be solved?” Often I think of this question as it may encapsulate one perspective— that there are so many problems in Africa, is it worth trying?
Contemplating the many challenges of creating not just a sustainable life for ourselves and others… but a really great life full of opportunity and freedom, it is good to remember that doing something is always better than doing nothing. If we can make a difference in the life of one child, then we have changed the world for that one person. And loving kids is a great way to make loving adults.
Casey, Miracle and I had a meeting last week at Bunabumali Good Samaritan school with Norman Nakhokhoe, James Nakhokhoe(Norman’s dad), Julius(school headmaster), Esther(Norman’s sister), and Sarah(a teacher). The school has 5 female and 4 male teachers working on voluntary basis working with children from nursery to P3(approx 8 years old)— around 70 students.

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Hey all… A lot of things with regard to organizing the event this Friday have not unfolded ideally, so the best option is to plan two simple events for next week in Saint John and Fredericton, where I give a presentation about the project and show all the clothes I have on hangers. We have to sell as many of the vintage clothes as we can.

All of them need to be out of my garage before I leave for Uganda. I have been making many clothes myself and will be taking photos of them to sell online also. This Friday competes with Halloween parties, which would be ok if we had a killer party to compete. I’m sure Tom Smith will be open to having the event there next week in Fredericton.

I have asked Gordon Johnson if we can have an event at Sebastian in Saint John, and he is working on it, so I hope to know soon. Most importantly is contacting the media, which I will do today to get things rolling. I didn’t want to contact them to talk about this event if it wasn’t going to turn out as we had in mind, so now the plan is to attract plus size ladies, and hipsters and anyone who would be interested in going to a talk about the project.

I had a meeting with RBC today about setting up a Stitch Uganda account, so we need to have a meeting about signing officers asap. Could we meet tonight or tomorrow night? Jayne Lomax already agreed be the other officer, but we need to have this in the minutes of a meeting to show the bank.

Adam McKim had me in the speak to a class at SJHS this morning, which went over very well, and they will be gathering funds to buy goats for Bunabumali this friday at a world food fair they are hosting and I will present at again.

Amanda Pottle had me speak to a couple dozen classes at Oromocto High last week, and they are also raising funds to buy goats. $59 was collected from pocket change that day. Today, I will compile the video from the school presentations and Kidsing classes to post on Youtube to show the other side of the project— how we are creating it, which will be helpful toward finding support. Any contacts you can talk to seeking support… please do. Send them to this page .that says what it is all about with colorful images and video, better than we can do with any email or flyer.

Please, just go for it. I have shared as much as I can as to what the vision is thus far. I am not good at telling you exactly what you can do. Just use your imagination.

We have non-profit status through Kidsing for straight donations, if you want to make some calls. Hanging Hugs are hammocks paid for upfront, knowing that one hammock will be giving to a needy person in Uganda, and they will get their hammock in January.

This could make a great Christmas gift. I think it is an easy concept to sell, but we need a lot of help to get the word out about it.

• The money that comes in from these Hanging Hugs needs to be put in the new account, so it can be managed separate from my funds.
• It needs to be clear that Hanging Hugs are a community social entrepreneurship project separate from the hammocks that I sew personally.
• This is where we can really amplify our efforts.
• All of you can own this project and take part as much or as little as you choose, and know exactly where the funds are going.
• If you have not seen this film yet, sharing the message of Dr. Wayne Dyer, talking about finding meaning and fulfillment through service, check it out… it has many great teachings: Thanks for taking part in this process! -Cor