Uganda

October 2017 and August 2019 Mission Trips

In Mbarara Uganda, we gave leadership training to pastors and church leaders from 26 local churches ranging from independent Pentecostal to Catholic – it was wonderful to see the unity in the body of Christ. We also gave 2 leadership training sessions to about 50 Youth leaders, who were tremendously lively and responsive.

Youth Aflame

Youth Aflame ministries (YAM) started in 2004 in Mbarara High School with Senior Six Class. It started following a revival led by the then chairman of Scripture Union (An interdenominational Christian club that operates in Ugandan schools). In a school of about 1000 students, more than 50% came to Christ and school discipline and academic performance changed completely. The transformation went on even those students left the school, however their high record for performance still stands until today.

In December 2015 and January 2016, Youth Aflame went to Zambia to hold evangelism meetings and do. One of their novel approaches was to distribute salvation invitation letters in Lusaka city centre during rush hour! They also visited a church in Lilai and did house to house evangelism .More than 70 people came to Christ.

Multiplier Ministries is working with the founder of Youth Aflame to develop a vision for East and Southern African countries and also supports the distribution of evangelism materials. They are also active in Kampala and Kigali, Rwanda.

Nakivale Refugee camp

Multiplier Ministries visited Nakivale Refugee camp (near the western border with Democratic Republic of Congo) in November 2015 and again in October 2017. Uganda is home to over 500,000 refugees (UNHCR, December, 2015) mainly from Democratic republic of Congo, South Sudan, Somalia and Burundi. This makes Uganda the third-largest refugee-hosting country in Africa, after Ethiopia (736,000) and Kenya (594,000).The biggest percentage of this number are women and children. Nakivale refugee settlement is the largest in Uganda and home to over 100,000 refugees.
Nakivale refugee settlement has at least four government aided primary schools that are shared among Ugandans living in the settlement and the refugees. These schools are over populated and with limited facilities. The pupils in these schools are required to pay fees, which prevents poor children from attending especially new arrival refugees. The government does not cater for pre-schools in the refugee settlement and yet this is important for provision of a good foundation for the subsequent levels.

The project we are currently fundraising for:

Flames Foundation pre-school is now a primary school with around 200 pupils! Most of it was built using bricks made by the parents. When we first visited the pre-school at the end of 2015, the school had virtually nothing and was housed inside the Nakivale Flames church. Multiplier Ministries subsequently provided desks, blackboards and some learning materials. In 2017, Multiplier Ministries gave some salary assistance for the two teachers and learning materials. Since then, we have assisted with some of the roofing, desks and cement. For 2022, we need 2’000 Swiss francs to construct 4 pit latrines as they currently do not have any toilets.

Development Studies Centre, Mbarara

Uganda has a rapidly growing population with extremely high youth unemployment which is held back by lack of skills training. The Development Studies Centre in Mbarara, Western Uganda, was founded by a Ugandan NGO called Agency for Integrated Training Services (AIDTS). It constructed and equipped the Development Studies Centres (DSC) in Kakoba, Mbarara which was officially opened in January 2008. The DSC provides a wide range of services including a resource centre and public library, a computer training centre, research services and training services (both in-house and open programmes). DSC offers reasonably priced – yet fully accredited diploma and certificate courses. The DSC is a Tertiary Institution licensed and accredited by the National Council of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education Sports Technology and Science in Uganda.

The DSC has a holistic approach to education where it not only gives academic lectures, but teaches students to be resourceful, create their own opportunities once they graduate and contribute to their communities. Students are taught sustainable agriculture and encouraged to start small businesses to begin saving for their own start-up capital once they graduate.

Multiplier Ministries currently supports five students with their tertiary education.