Points of Connection
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Agathos with Aldersgate
Aldersgate is a boarding school with 800 students. They are in need of emergency housing and the social group Agathos is raising money to build a dorm on their campus.
Contact: Andrea Hunt
Bound 4 Freedom
Bound 4 Freedom is a core group of women supported by volunteers. All involved are committed to the issues of social justice and freedom by making creative, unique handmade products to support projects that reflect our values.
Goals
- to live in and encourage an environment that provides for and sustains the whole person
- to use only fair trade materials and services
- to create opportunities for people who want to further our vision or are in need of jobs
- to learn, teach, or expand to other lines of handmade quality products
- to connect and learn with other organizations
- to establish a network of local, national, and international branches
East Africa Project
A part of our community is in Kasubi, Uganda at Tumaini Aids Prevention Program (TAPP). We donate Memory Books for the women to record memories of themselves and their children for their children. We are also selling necklaces that the women create out of recycled paper. You can support us through a multiple of ways: prayer, monetary donations, volunteering to help create journals, buying journals, telling others about us, and letting us know of other venues and organizations that we could connect with.
Contact: info@bound4freedom.org
Child Aid Africa
Child Aid Africa operates in the US as an independent, non-government, not-for-profit Christian orphans' support organization for Africa. Child Aid Africa has, as the primary target, children ranging from age 13 to 18 years. The organization offers support to orphaned children in Africa who are usually living with kin or volunteer families. Children in the program receive education support including school fees and other relevant support to help accomplish secondary education.
Child Aid Africa supports orphans and foster families in Africa as a demonstration of the call for service as a true reflection of our commitment to the advancement of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is the mission of Child Aid Africa to help orphan children in the transition from primary schooling to secondary education in Africa. It is the aim of this program to provide educational opportunities for such persons so that they can achieve greater success in furthering their formal schooling, their potential for employment, in helping to raise their own families, and in developing as servant leaders for their own communities, society, and the broader world.
These orphans may have AIDS or be HIV positive, but may also be suffering from other family, economic or social conditions limiting their access to education and developing their full potential. Child Aid Africa sponsors students who have strong academic potential to succeed in school at the secondary level, but who for reasons of finances are not likely to receive such opportunities. The program provides support for educational opportunities for such children so that they can achieve success in furthering their formal schooling. Education enhances potential for employment to help rid individuals and their families of poverty and disease.
Our Core Values
Our core values are aimed at marketing Child Aid Africa as an attractive, credible organization with a unique mission to aid HIV/AIDS orphans in Africa. These values entail a commitment that includes:
- funds meet child’s most urgent and pressing needs
- efficient and immediate disbursement of funds when and where it is most needed by the orphans; Child Aid Africa does not unnecessarily hold funds intended for the orphans support.
- supported children have prior proven high academic potential/abilities
- aiming at aiding orphans within their communities to keep them integrated in their social cultural settings – with kin and family support.
- targeting at the core needs of the orphans – mainly fees and life sustenance
- essentials that keep the child at school – we desist from developing a welfare client.
Contact: Dr. Mbito
Dunn Hall and the Kasubi Kids
The Residents of Dunn Hall have two little brothers, two boys from Kasubi Uganda. The support they provide goes to feed and pays for education of the children. Other residence halls have now joined in and more than twenty children from Kasubi are now supported through the program, which is a part of Children of Promise. This program is a child sponsorship program the has its offices directly across the street from the University campus. Dunn Hall and others are entering the strong friendships developed by Children of Promise and have given hope to many families. In doing so we address the cruelest reality of poverty: the poverty of hope.
There are still families in Kasubi waiting for sponsorship. It is the stated goal of Dunn Hall to cause Children of Promise to run out of children to sponsor in Kasubi Uganda. If you want to join in this effort you can attend one of the many events sponsored by Dunn raising funds for Kasubi or you can sponsor a child yourself or with others.
Email: Children of Promise or Brandon Mott
Phone: (765) 648-2190 or (800) 848-2464, ext. 2190
Miss AU-EA
The Miss AU-EA program is a humanitarian effort created in conjunction with AU-EA, an outreach program to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic in East Africa. The purpose of the program is two-fold:
- To raise money for the Frepals Nursing Home in Kibera, Kenya. This is a special project that will provide needed funding and medical supplies for a clinic that serves Kenyans who cannot afford treatment at the local hospitals.
- To redefine beauty in a way that promotes self-confidence and celebrates service and compassion.
Contact: eawasonga@anderson.edu
SIFE in Africa
AU's Students In Free Enterprise is partnering with Mulunda Miaka Orphanage, which is located in the Northwestern province of Zambia. Mulunda Miaka Orphanage is run by Zambian nationals and is currently in the construction stages. SIFE is assisting the orphanage in developing a comprehensive plan to be largely self sufficient.
Contact: Chad Schubert
Tumaini AIDS Prevention Program (TAPP)
The TAPP Center is an AIDS care and prevention program. It is located in Kampala Uganda under the leadership of David Wafula and in partnership with the Stevensons (missionaries to Uganda). Anderson University is privileged to join in the efforts of the TAPP Centre. Handmade TAPP jewelry is available in the AU bookstore. Additionally the TAPP Center has benefited from numerous campus events. Bound4Freedom, Dunn Hall and personal visits through Tri-S have strengthened our commitment to each other as the TAPP center brings health and hope to the people of Uganda.
Tri-S Study Serve Share
Tri-S is a university program that facilitates world-view changing cultural exchange trips to many countries around the world. The program now sends at least three trips a year to East Africa. Students travel to East Africa to encounter the culture, engage with the people, and transform lives, including their own. These trips are an essential part of the AU-EA initiative. It is through face to face exchange that lives are most powerfully transformed.
Contact: tri-s@anderson.edu
Web Sites for Missionaries
Web design students here on campus are currently working on a website for Ben and Kelli Shuler, Church of God missionaries in Tanzania.
Contact: Shana Clatterbuck
Student Teaching/Internships.
Education and nursing majors are fulfilling academic requirements in East African schools and hospitals.Other Points of Connection
- A social club or student group sponsoring the construction of a well that would provide clean drinking water for an entire village.
- Sociology, Foreign Language, Political Science, Nursing and Education majors fulfilling academic requirements in an East African context
- Computer science and information technology majors designing networks for aid organizations and helping to build computer labs in schools.
- Physics students exploring ways to apply alternative energy technology in the region.
- The opportunities to connect are endless.
