Pennies for Papoli
Pennies for Papoli is a VPI initiative to engage children to help other children. {flv}PapoliSlideshow{/flv} Music: “Word of God Speak” by Mercy Me The 6th Grade Class of St. Mary’s Episcopal Day School in Tampa, Florida did just that and created a video to teach other schools how they did it.
CHN – Spring 2009
Greetings in Our Risen Lord to all of you who have been a part of the labor of Jesus Christ for the people of rural Haiti at Covenant Hospital in Mombin Crochu.
New Hospital
Community Health Center of Papoli, Phase III The great need for a small inpatient hospital to serve the people of this area was recognized by VPI. To fill this need, Phase III of the Community Health Center of Papoli will be constructed.Nearly 60,000 people in Papoli and the surrounding area have no close facility to […]
Outpatient Medical Clinic
Community Health Center of Papoli, Phase II People in the village of Papoli, and surrounding areas, have nowhere to turn when they are sick or injured. The closest facility is in the city of Tororo, where the hospital exists, and this can be impossible to reach in an emergency. For this reason, the concept of […]
Safe House Construction
The Robert H. Cooley Pediatric Clinic Community Health Center of Papoli, Phase I – COMPLETE Breaking News: With joy and thanksgiving VPI announces that it has received a gift from a private trust to allow the full construction, completion, and operational start up costs of The Community Health Center of Papoli, Phase I. For more […]
Safe House
The Robert H. Cooley Pediatric Clinic Community Health Center of Papoli, Phase I – COMPLETE
New Schools
Papoli village had no real school. The elders of the village realized that the future of their country lay in the children, and that in order to move forward, education for these children was essential. Children taught under trees, sitting on the ground, were trying to learn. Teachers had no books, no blackboards, and few […]
Scholarship Fund
The need for advancement of the educational levels of qualified children was introduced to the members of Palma Ceia Presbyterian Church as a way of enabling children to reach their full potential. Out of this concept, the Uganda Scholarship Fund was begun.
Housing
When asked what was needed by the people of the village of Papoli, the immediate answer rested in 3 things. Education, clean water, and homes for the widowed grandmothers who cared for orphaned children, and the groups of child headed families. For, with the dictatorship if Idi Amin combined with the devastating epidemic of AIDS […]
Clean Water
Clean water is the anchor of life. Without it, life cannot exist. There are many parts of the world where the simple fact of having clean water is a luxury, not a right. Health problems and life threatening illness are the result of this fact, and the children, who are the most vulnerable, are at […]