The Completion of the Buildings- From Summer 2010 to Winter 2012

Watoto- A Success Story

Watoto is a charity based in Kampala, Uganda, set up in response to the overwhelming number of orphaned children and vulnerable women in the country. It aims to rescue and raise the children and women, so that in the future they can rebuild their nation.

Inside the Education building at
our community in Busia

Watoto provides physical care, medical treatment, education, counseling and spiritual discipleship in order to raise skilled, productive Christian citizens who can be the leaders of tomorrow.

Rather than operating as an orphanage in the traditional sense, Watoto builds families and communities.

Children in the building in Busia
as part of Shine Outreach UK's work

This is a success story and shows that you can really change the lives of many children through the provision of education and care. 
Shine Outreach UK sees their outstanding work as inspiration and hopes to help the children of Maanga develop and prosper, in a similar way. This gives hope for a bright future of the charity and the children who can see their lives changed for the better. Shine Outreach UK plans to restore families to the orphaned children in Maanga through building family homes. The next fundraising target is to pay for a teacher for the education building, which is now completed, as well as complete buying desks and beds for the first group of children to live and school through the work of Shine Outreach UK. 

For more information see www.watoto.com or follow them on twitter @watoto

Recent News on HIV

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (slowly-replicating retrovirus) that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), an infectious disease in which progressive failure of the human immune system leads to life-threatening opportunistic infections and/or cancer.

HIV infects vital cells in the human immune system. Firstly the disease directly kills infected cells; second, increased rates of apoptosis in infected cells; and third, killing of infected cells that recognize infected cells. The body becomes progressively more susceptible to opportunistic infections.



UPDATE:
Recent update on research into HIV cure has led to an identification of a natural antiviral protein that stops HIV and certain other deadly viruses like Ebola, Rift Valley Fever, and Nipah, from entering host cells. They hope the discovery will help efforts to develop broad-spectrum antivirals against many of the deadly viruses. HIV drugs can be used to boost protection against HIV as well as treating symptoms after infection, research suggests.

Two studies in Africa add weight to previous data showing drugs used to treat HIV can reduce infection risk when taken daily. The World Health Organization said the studies could have "enormous impact" in preventing HIV transmission. One trial, carried out by the University of Washington, US, followed almost 5,000 couples in Kenya and Uganda, where one person had HIV infection and the other did not.

Lisa PowerTerrence Higgins Trust
The uninfected person took a daily HIV medicine (tenofovir), a combination of two HIV drugs (tenofovir and emtricitabine), or a placebo pill.

There were 62% fewer HIV infections in the group on the single drug and 73% fewer HIV infections in the group that took the combination, compared with those given a dummy pill.

For more information please see the links below:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14142224

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/hiv-aids/

The Short Story

Shine Outreach UK was inspired after a group of 14 visited a community in Uganda on a charity and missionary trip to Busia, in Uganda, in the summer of 2010. The community is located in the eastern region of Uganda in a remote village of Maanga. The charity has been formed as a non-registered charity in the UK since 2011. Members of that original group now form the committee who are directing and managing the charity from the UK.

Over the past 2 years over £2500 has been given to projects in Busia, which converts to in excess of a 10,000,000 Ugandan Shillings! Considering, the average annual income in Uganda is around 2.7m Shillings ($1,100), which is about 4 average annual salaries! In contrast in the UK, 4 annual salaries would be equivalent to over £100,000. The picture of the two buildings shows where the money has been invested! We also have £2,683.68 ready to send out for new projects that we are currently finalising. Stay tuned for more updates…

 The community that Shine Outreach UK works alongside is full of children struggling through malaria, HIV and AIDS. Many of them are also orphans and malnourished, so Shine Outreach UK’s primary vision is to provide food, healthcare, education, and accommodation through the restoration of family and community to children who need them most.

The vision was and still is to give each of these children the greatest quality of life for the years that they live. Working alongside friends and partners In Uganda, and with the resources of the community including over 6 acres of land, there is great hope for a future for this community.