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"Founded by the Church of Uganda, the Potter's Village will be run by Christians on an interdenominational basis"

"Whenever the pot the potter was working on turned out badly, as sometimes happens when you are working with clay, the potter would simply start over and use the same clay to make another pot." Jeremiah 18:8

Aims

The Potter's village is a caring Christian community providing support and nurture for three categories of vulnerable children:

The story

Jenny Green, a youth pastor for the Church of Uganda in Kisoro, has a vision to reach out to destitute children in Christian love, within a Christian community. Many years of work and service for children, as well as experience adopting two Ugandan babies, have combined with vision and inspirational leadership to bring this project into being.

Kisoro, Uganda

Kisoro, Uganda

In Kisoro there is a great struggle with poverty, AIDS, and wars in neighbouring areas, particularly in the Congo. While there is a strong Ugandan tradition to care for the wider family, there are many street children and young destitute families.

A recent visitor's comment is a typical response to the very evident need:

"It was hard seeing the street kids at the youth camp trying to get food and it broke my heart when they were turned away."

Long term forms of support for children that will take them out of the cycle of poverty and begging are desperately needed.

This project is a community-based organisation that the local Church will oversee. The present Chair of Governors, Rev Canon Wilson Baganizi is a local man with a servant heart, engineering experience, and at present a commissioner for the Church of Uganda. Through its many and varied connections with the children and youth of the area, Jenny Green and her team are very well placed to understand and seek to provide for their needs in the best possible ways.

Kisoro

Kisoro is a very poor area of south west Uganda, within the diocese of Muhabura, and both AIDS and wars have exacted a great toll on the society. Despite the practice of extended families caring for needy relatives there are still many young children with no form of care. This project will reach out to those most in need.

Kisoro, Uganda

Kisoro, a very poor area

The Potter's Village aims to provide care and support for vulnerable children regardless of their race or creed. Care of each child is holistic and tending to all their needs. The Village aims to develop and maintain a family environment which is healthy and secure, giving needy children the optimum opportunity to thrive, develop and discover their full potential.

Support includes:

Parents, guardians and family members will be given support and training to enable them to provide for the children in their care; children will be placed with foster parents or rehabilitated with their families where possible.

The Village aims to be self-sufficient in basic needs, with its own cows, vegetable garden and trees for firewood.