Hi, my name is Shannen Kennedy,
I am from Washington State in America,
and I've been involved with Empower a Child since September 2013.
Hi, my name's Porsche and I'm from the
United Kingdom,
I got involved with EAC in June last
year.
and my name's Tim Carson,
and I'm from the United States. I really fell
in love with the village of Zirobwe, 
I felt like I was a part of families. I
wasn't coming into an organization and
just seeing what they did and
just playing with kids, but it was
more than that it was
going into people's homes and getting to
know and build relationships with other people
and just feeling like a part of the
families here. I just fell in love with
everything that Empower a Child was looking to achieve, everything
that it stood for and so I'm back again
this year to volunteer for eighteen month
...we came straight out to the village, where we are right now
and within about two hours, that's when
the Holy Spirit
confirmed to me I was supposed to be here working at the school.
So currently EAC works in a community 
 called Zirobwe, which is an hour and a
half away from Kampala; and we spend
three to four days a
week camping in the lovely church behind us.In the past
several months though, we've kinda found it difficult because we spend
so much time in travel, so much time in
packing and just getting to-and-from this
place, and the planning of
what's going to take place.  Now we have
this huge opportunity to
build a guesthouse and a clinic and just see this
whole experience grow, and just be able to
be on-ground
the whole time, and not have to travel back
and forth. Being involved in the
community
on such a different level, where we're
actually living with these people and
going to their homes on a day-to-day
basis, and just spreading the word of God
in such a unique way, just being able to be fully immersed in this community.
Currently we're able to do projects in
the newly purchased school,
and we are able to teach English to the
community around us,
we're able to invest in the lives of the
small children, that you just build relationships with.
We are standing in the middle of the
courtyard of
our new guesthouse. So this guesthouse,
as you can see is not completed.
Not only are we going to be building a
guest house but we have the opportunity
to build a clinic as well, we're going to be having wound
care treatments, we're going to be preventing Tetnus, we're going to be
extracting jiggers, and
even just teaching them about basic
first aid, things
that we would know so well but that they
don't even have
access to. The nearest Medical Centre to the Zirobwe village is
10 kilometers away. The only time that people
are able to
get this treatment is when Empower a Child brings a medical camp here
which is only two time a year. So you have these people who need this medical treatment
so desperately. We have an old man who can't see and
he struggles to walk and he needs treatment for malaria, or a wound
that he has, how is he ever going to make it to that clinic? So bringing a clinic here
is...we just are in dire need of having
a clinic here
on-ground, to be able to give them those treatments and have it in
a safe and a walk-able distance. If we
want to really develop the community and invest, we need to be more practical.
and it is not just a building that you are helping with,
it's literally the future of these children
that need almost a one-on-one situation, some of
them, in order to learn. They're learning
English well,
they're learning their lessons well, but the
more people you have helping, the better of it is. Personal testimony of
mine is that, when I'm in the village
I'm able to spend one-to-one time every day
with my sponsored child,
which to me is just priceless. To see how he grows
everyday, just from that little bit of input
it just makes me smile so much. So I want to challenge you,
I know there's going to be young people
looking at this video
but you older people, the moms and dads or the grandparents of the young people...
please consider, just start praying about it, God is this something
you want me to do. Help us finish this
building,
whether that's through, purchasing a door, committing to
a window
buying a bag of cement, we really just
need your help!
The guest house and the medical clinic will cost  $130,000 to fully complete as you can see
the shell
and the roofing are almost complete. We still need
$85,000 to complete
the entire building,
our goal is to raise this by the end of
this year, 2014.
Thank you for your ongoing prayers and
support,
we cannot wait to update you on this
project.
