Our First Ever Online Event!
May 2025 is a special month to us; we had our first ever online event on Friday 9 May, 1:00pm and 7:00pm EST. We had the privilege to celebrate our work so far and dream with some of you. Thank you so much for saying yes to our invitation and/ partnering with us financially, prayerfully and/ administratively. Here are some highlights from our precious time together.
We started with a brief history of our work in Uganda. TCI is the developmental arm of Covenant Global Ministries, founded by Pastor Moses Nkwatsibwe, a visionary. We had clear synergies in envisioning transformed, empowered, food secure and healthy communities. This partnership also included community leaders, Christian schools, a team of passionate staff, volunteers and board members.
TCI Team 2023
In the online event, there was also an observation of the contrast between our two areas of operations: the green, fertile and stable Kiburara in Western Uganda with relatively high literacy levels versus the drought stricken, historically insecure Karamoja in Eastern Uganda with low literacy levels.
The foundation of our work in both region has been Paradigm Shift Training which involves mindset change towards a strong ownership of one’s future and the future of one’s community. We spoke about how this has inspired several investments like utilizing each available piece of land through Food Always In The Home Gardens, community piggery projects, school buildings, student sponsorships, teacher training, Bible story telling, food relief and malnutrition assessments. The result has been regained strength, hope joy, unity and open possibilities.
Finally, we peeked into exciting things coming up in the future. First we spoke about our Karamoja sustainability journey inspired by JUSTDIGGIT’s re-greening solutions like earth smiles or water bunds. These semi circular holes open up the hard top layer of the soil slowing down and capturing rain water running downhill. The picture below shows a mango tree planted as a trial run in the re-greening efforts. We are also working towards learning and experimenting with Earth Microbial’s crop enhancement techniques which involve using microbials to naturally fix nitrogen to improve soil health, plant growth and resistance to heat stress.
Second, we celebrated together with Kachakatom village (one of our five partner Karamoja villages) hot off the press, the completion of their well thanks to the support of our donors, community leaders, well diggers, our staff and in collaboration with Kaabong Peace and Development Agency (KAPDA). This was a reflection of the hope regained in this region since this village had lacked a reliable water source for quite a long time. Please read the blog post on Kachakatom in our One Village at a Time series to learn more about this. Below are pictures from the well construction site
Finally we shared some ways to get involved that we invite you all to prayerfully consider and feel free to contact us at info@tcius.org:
Please join our weekly Zoom prayer meetings on Thursdays 8 am EST.
Please join our peer to peer Givebutter fundraising efforts which involves fundraising for a portion of the overall goal of a campaign (Brainstorm school and Karamoja Life flow campaigns)
Please consider being one of our volunteers to help with financial reconciliations, social media or any other skills you would like to contribute.
_ by Gloria Nderitu