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 Proposed Bucence Parish Community Orphanage.

 

Proposed Bucence Parish Community Orphanage

At a recent meeting of the Bucence Parish Council it was agreed to invite the Friends of North Kigezi Diocese to commence the building of a village based Orphanage on  plot of land immediately to the rear of the Vicarage.

The Parish community Orphanage would initially be for those children living on their own and house 48 of them together with a Matron/Guardian.

The proposed plot would be some 70 times 35 feet and the build would be single story with 4 bedrooms, a dining/meeting/prayer room a kitchen, toilets and bathrooms together with accommodation for the Resident Matron.

The building of the Proposed Bucence Parish Community Orphanage would be of locally made bricks, rendered inside and outside with concrete floors and quality locally made wooden window frames and shutters.

The footings for the Proposed Bucence Parish Community Orphanage are due to commence early 2011 and footings and brickwork by Easter 2011.

Completion is due by early /mid 2012 according to success of funding or much earlier if possible.

The early estimate for building is calculated at £18,000 much depending upon currency exchange rates.

Proposed Bucence Parish Community Orphanage

We urge our many supporters to join us in this most needed of all our projects and assist us to bring some relief to the increasing numbers of neglected orphan children in our Rural Communities.

Donations may of course be made online.

  

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We all have at least one phone in the drawer that we don’t know what to do with.
Donate it please to our Charity and will see that it is put to very good use in our many distant villages .

Please contact,
Reverend Canon Kenneth Berkin
Friends of North Kigezi Diocese.
57, High Ridge,
Seabrook,
Hythe Kent
CT21 5TF
01303 261854
07854 409771
ken.berkin@ntlworld.com
UK Registered Charity No 111 4602

Announcement

The Trustees are delighted to announce the receipt of £500 from Castle Hill in Ipswich to refurbish the large school block at our Primary School in Bucence Village. In addition to other funding to buy the children uniforms this will now enable us to install windows, shutters and doors in the many holes in the wall at our school.
At long last our children will be able to attend school in a certain amount of comfort.
We praise God for his great mercy
Thanks,
Ken……….

Mukama Asiimwe (Praise God)

Reverend Canon Kenneth Berkin
Friends of North Kigezi Diocese. fnkd.org
57, High Ridge,
Seabrook,
Hythe Kent
CT21 5TF
01303 261854
07854 409771
ken.berkin@ntlworld.com