About Uzima In Our Hands
Orphan Centre in Western Kenya provides day care, education, food and medical support for 340 of the poorest and needy children in the local area.
Uzima In Our Hands Description
Isle of Wight based charity supporting 297 children attending orphan and day care centre in Kenya. Ages from 3 to 16 years old. All children have had a difficult start some losing both parents to AIDS, some with special needs / medical needs themselves, all living in an area of extreme poverty.
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This was on the news last night and underlines the importance of the parent support groups that are run from Uzima. We celebrate the resilience of those families who faithfully continue to care for their disabled children in and around Uzima Orphan and Day Care Centre.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-4 5670750
We’d all love to see you at our Uzima evening to share an American buffet and hear all the latest news! Please join us on Saturday 13th October, details attached. Please RSVP!
Come and see us tomorrow at the Fun Day on Colwell Common, lots of fun and games for all the family - and we'll be serving delicious Island made ice creams to support the children at Uzima. Special thanks to Jenny and our friends at Calbourne Classics. It looks like the sun will shine, so go on.. grab an ice cream it's nearly the end of the holidays!!
** West Wight Messy Church Fun Day 1-5pm, Colwell Common, Saturday 1st September - all proceeds from ice cream sales to Uzima - see you there!
All our latest news in one place, read all about it!
Our Uzima bags (made by our new Sewing Project) are already on sale at PO41 Coffee House and we’re delighted to report some sold before they even went on display! Grab your own colourful Uzima Tote Bag for just £4 (suggested donation) and make a difference to the children in Kenya we support, and you’ll be saving the world from plastic at the same time!! 🌍
Thank you hugely to all those who’ve been busy sewing 💕 if you can help please get in touch - we plan to make enough to sell in other places & on the Uzima website too - we need you! x
Thank you to all of you who came along to our Uzima Sewing Workshop on Thursday, we made 7 tote bags just to get going, with the help of talented Lynn Palmer (thank you Lynn!).
Please do spread the word to anyone and everyone who sews, we want to make hundreds to raise funds for Uzima so we need everyone’s help! The pattern is at www.morsbags.com Thank you lots 🙏 happy sewing 😊 x
Just occasionally a good idea turns into a great one but it takes a lot of effort and support to get there. Thank you SO much to everyone who contributed by joining in or sponsoring us...we have raised an amazing £3,951.99 for Uzima in Our Hands! Uzima supports very vulnerable and needy children in Western Kenya. Mungu akubariki - God bless you all!
We’re launching a new sewing project, making morsbags for Uzima! Come along and find out more, pick up a pattern, see a bag being made, drop off some fabric/thread, join in or just have a coffee! All welcome. Address details available from Louise louise@uzimainourhands.org
Wow...THANK YOU Linda Fraser for celebrating your 50th by doing 50 crazy things and raising money for Uzima. Happy birthday! !
School is nearly over and for some that means a sort out of old school uniform. Has your child grown out of any of these....school summer dresses (any colour - red preferred), white polo shirts (can have a logo) or shorts - any type - PE shorts are brilliant. If so Uzima can use them and we'd appreciate you donating them to us. In September these items are often drastically reduced in stores so if you see any bargains, again Uzima children would really appreciate you buying them for the children. Please deliver to - West Wight Sports and Community Centre, Moa Place, Freshwater, or The Living Room in Newport - or message us for other drop off points. Please share - Thank you!
Thank you to those of you who said you are up for making bags for Uzima. Our sewing project is officially launched! We are holding a workshop to take place Thursday 12th July, 10am-1pm in Totland with help & support from Lynn Palmer.
We aim to make hundreds of bags to sell for the children in the Uzima Orphan Centre. Can you help? If you can’t sew but can get hold of some nice material, colourful old cotton duvets etc.. or thread, we need that too!
A morsbag is a reusable cl...oth / tote bag made from second hand fabric such as old curtains, duvet covers or vintage clothes. Strong, washable, re-cycled and the pattern is straightforward too, you can find it at www.morsbags.com
Please share this post to any fellow sewing friends and let us know if you’re coming along, we’ll send you the address and would love to see you there and we’ll get going 😃 please email louise@uzimainourhands.org
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Amazing tea party at Yarmouth Sailing Club this afternoon. Thank you Joanna Minchin and Bol for organising such a great bash and the movie was brilliant. Liz Mead and Ronni Usborne worked very hard in the kitchen and over 60 people drank tea and ate cake for Uzima. £400 from our generous supporters still a bit more to come in THANK YOU!
Our latest Uzima newsletter attached (hopefully!). We'd love to see you all this Sunday at Yarmouth Sailing Club to celebrate the amazing achievement of Joy and the team rounding the Island on RS Quests and raising £2k for the children - we'll be serving tea and scones and sharing lots of sailing stories. Also, read all about it our new project - can you sew? Thanks for reading & sharing x
Please join us to celebrate the successful rounding of the Isle of Wight in our two RS Quests. We will be selling tea, Chessell scones and cake and showing photos, videos and stories of our adventure.
We're in the County Press!