How does a child end up in a prison in Uganda?
Great question.
Let's follow a common story...
A beloved child is born to her mother...
She is a delight and a joy!
But her parents' lives are stolen early by disease, HIV/AIDS, war or even struck by lightning. (I heard this so often from street children while in Uganda! Lightning kills many parents!) This once loved child is now an orphan.
Often children are left to fend for themselves while a grandparent or other caregiver works in a field to provide for the children.
When their caregivers die or if a parent remarries, the child must then make their own way in the world.
This means leaving the village and all they have known...
And trying to make a life in the big city.
The city is a big, scary place when you are just a child.
The child sees the abundance of food at the market, but has no money to pay for any.
They are locked up in facilities that are under financed and under staffed.
Food only comes once every other day.
Their bedding is old, moldy and soaked in years of old urine.
There is nothing to do but wait...hoping that you will be allowed freedom...someday.
This is the common path of a child who sits in a prison in Uganda. Others are there because of a family's poverty, or because they were rejected for their special needs (physical and mental), or because they were unwanted by new step parents. Some are there for petty crimes mainly driven by their poverty.
But now, a group of Jesus-loving people have come together and formed Sixty Feet...all for the purpose of bringing hope and restoration to these very children in Jesus' name.
They lead them in worship...
They bring the gospel message into the prisons. Children learn of TRUE FREEDOM that is for them no matter if they are locked behind bars or not!
And now this dear child who has experienced so much loss, so much trauma is now a student of God's Word! Hope fills hearts!
And THAT my friends, is WHY WE CUPCAKE!!!
100% of the proceeds from our Cupcake Kids sale will go to the imprisoned children through Sixty Feet.
What will the money do? I'm glad you asked!!
*Food--with protein, daily!
*Clean water
*Medical care
*Providing adequate clothing, bedding and mosquito nets (to fight malaria)
*Repairing the facilities
*Initiating justice so that children who do not belong in the prisons can have their cases heard in as little as 3 months by a judge rather than the lengthy 18 months
*Removing the most vulnerable children to a loving foster family
*Provide on-going counseling, mentoring to the children by Ugandan men who love Jesus
All these things are done with your cupcake money!!
Are you moved to support this ministry but are not nearby? Worry not! We have a virtual cupcake for you!
This one has NO FAT, NO CALORIES and will still bring joy to your heart for helping the most vulnerable children! Click to donate directly to our stand!
Thank you to ALL MY FRIENDS who are so selflessly giving and baking and planning on being at our sale this Saturday! Cannot wait!!!
Great question.
Let's follow a common story...
But her parents' lives are stolen early by disease, HIV/AIDS, war or even struck by lightning. (I heard this so often from street children while in Uganda! Lightning kills many parents!) This once loved child is now an orphan.
Often children are left to fend for themselves while a grandparent or other caregiver works in a field to provide for the children.
When their caregivers die or if a parent remarries, the child must then make their own way in the world.
This means leaving the village and all they have known...
And trying to make a life in the big city.
The child sees the abundance of food at the market, but has no money to pay for any.
So they must scavenge for food...
The police periodically do "sweeps" of the area and pick up the children and take them to one of the 8 prisons in Uganda for children.
They are locked up in facilities that are under financed and under staffed.
Food only comes once every other day.
Their bedding is old, moldy and soaked in years of old urine.
Despair doesn't begin to capture how they must feel.
At times, the facilities may go without water for months at a time.
There is nothing to do but wait...hoping that you will be allowed freedom...someday.
This is the common path of a child who sits in a prison in Uganda. Others are there because of a family's poverty, or because they were rejected for their special needs (physical and mental), or because they were unwanted by new step parents. Some are there for petty crimes mainly driven by their poverty.
But now, a group of Jesus-loving people have come together and formed Sixty Feet...all for the purpose of bringing hope and restoration to these very children in Jesus' name.
And now this dear child who has experienced so much loss, so much trauma is now a student of God's Word! Hope fills hearts!
And THAT my friends, is WHY WE CUPCAKE!!!
100% of the proceeds from our Cupcake Kids sale will go to the imprisoned children through Sixty Feet.
What will the money do? I'm glad you asked!!
*Food--with protein, daily!
*Clean water
*Medical care
*Providing adequate clothing, bedding and mosquito nets (to fight malaria)
*Repairing the facilities
*Initiating justice so that children who do not belong in the prisons can have their cases heard in as little as 3 months by a judge rather than the lengthy 18 months
*Removing the most vulnerable children to a loving foster family
*Provide on-going counseling, mentoring to the children by Ugandan men who love Jesus
All these things are done with your cupcake money!!
Are you moved to support this ministry but are not nearby? Worry not! We have a virtual cupcake for you!
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Thank you to ALL MY FRIENDS who are so selflessly giving and baking and planning on being at our sale this Saturday! Cannot wait!!!
"For I was hungry, and you fed me. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I was a stranger, and you invited me into your home. I was naked, and you gave me clothing. I was sick, and you cared for me. I was in prison, and you visited me.
The King will say to those on His right, "I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to Me!" ~Jesus in Matthew 25
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