I was joyfully humbled by this email I received recently.....
"Dearest Belinda,
It's been such a long, long time since I've written!THANK YOU very much for all the Emails you send!Over the years - since 1992 when I first met you in Uganda, you've Blessedmy life a lot.I remember the time I was trying to go and work with Street Children in BeloHorizonte, and you helped me (although I never made it there), then the personal letters that followed after that!
Well, the Lord has been faithful to my wife and I.We are now reaching over 2600 orphans as a result of AIDS.We pay School fees for them to go to School, we are setting up Schools aswell as an organization, we are building clinics - the biggest handling 1000AIDS patients a week!!!!!!, we are doing a lot of empowerment programs for families taking care of the children we've placed with them (we don't set uporphanages)...Its been a journey of faith!!!!We are now in Kenya and Zambia, and AOET Zambia is almost bigger than AOET -Uganda (the Mother)!!!! God has REALLY given us increase in the last 2 - 3 years like NEVER before,and we are looking ahead with Him to what he wants to do through us! When Nancy and I started AOET, we had no Idea it was going to go this far!In only 5 years, so much has been done!!!THANK YOU for being a part of my life! You have been an example to MANY, and I am so previledged to be one of them!So, I hold you in HIGH Regard! YOU HAVE BROUGHT OUT OF ME WHAT WHAT HAD BEEN HIDDEN!!!!
I know this is nothing, but my support per month is $300 US. Out of that, I would like to support you for one year with my Tithe of $30 per month and an additional $10 as my monthly support! Precisely I would like to send you $40 a month for the next one year.
Please let me know how I can do this as I don't know how this can be arranged from Uganda!I know this won't do anything - I know I should be helping - together with others with things like your travel here and there... but who knows! Please pray that the Lord would increase my monthly support.I pray every day that the Lord will give me more avenues so I can give tohis work in Uganda and other places, and I know he will do it!
That's it for now, and I will continue to pray for you!
THANK YOU FOR BLESSING MY LIFE!!
Kindest Regards,
Sam Tushabe
Director, A. O. E. T. "
http://www.aoet.org
AIDS Orphans Education Trust (AOET) ~ Uganda seeks to bring hope and a future to this generation of devastated children.
AOET ~ Uganda is an independent, indigenous non-governmental organization with the prime mandate of providing an education -- formal and/or vocational -- to desperately poor, neglected and forgotten orphans whose parents have died of AIDS. AOET assists children with AIDS and widows that have lost their spouses to AIDS and most of them HIV+ themselves. AOET moves children from the streets into families. African culture has not traditionally institutionalized orphans. AOET places a great value on placing children with foster families providing mother and/or fathers who care for them responsibly.
