The PAMENAS Foundation was set up by Gerald Naguyo in memory of his father Paul who was vicar of Bupadhengo Parish for many years and who sadly died in 2020. EB has provided some funding for PAMENAS to get up and running. The vision is to ‘support pregnant teenagers and reach out to the impoverished elderly people’. One means of doing this is through skilling programs. Please read Gerald’s recent report on one such program the foundation has undertaken with girls in school.

With funding from Climate Stewards, EB has partnered with Transcending Hope Uganda (THU) to plant a variety of tree seedlings across multiple sites in rural Busoga. THU representatives visited a number of churches in two parishes in Bugiri district between October 2021 and January 2022 gaining agreement from the leadership to take part in the programme along with the willingness of the communities to assist with the planting and nurturing of the trees.

The Family Life Education Program (FLEP) provides health services through its 50+ health centres located throughout Busoga. Uganda was hit hard by Covid during 2020 and 2021 with persistent lockdowns closing educational establishments and other communal activities while movement was severely restricted. Many infections and deaths went unrecorded. With financial support from St James by the Park Southampton, EB partnered with FLEP to train its health workers in anti-Covid interventions (hand washing, social distancing, mask wearing) and in preparing them for participation in vaccine delivery.

Here are some examples of children whose lives have been transformed with help from The Barbara Project Team (for safeguarding purposes their real names are not used) Samuel Samuel was seen in 2011. He had fallen out of a tree 6 years earlier and had sustained a spinal cord injury. He was unable to use both legs and one arm; he was withdrawn and miserable having spent the previous 6 years on his back looking up at the ceiling of his mud hut.