Dear friends, prayer partners, and supporters!

At the end of this year, our staff member Prossy Akao is writing the newsletter. As a teenager, she was supported through a sponsorship by Amuka and received medical assistance because of her physical disability. Today, she herself works as a psychologist and coordinator in various programs at Amuka. We wish you much joy while reading and extend our heartfelt thanks for all your faithful support throughout 2025!
We wish you all a blessed Christmas season, Orge & Antje

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Dear friends!
Warm greetings from the AMUKA team in Uganda! We are very grateful for your support for all the activities here on the ground. The work is going well, and we see many positive changes.

Our “Family Group” (adult education) is developing wonderfully, with growing numbers of participants in our weekly meetings. A key focus of our teaching is on health, marriage, and our relationship with God, as these are areas of life where there is much suffering in the villages here. God bless all supporters of the food aid, which was such a great help during the hunger season. The recipients were so happy and are praying blessings upon you.

The Bible Club is also doing well, with new children joining every week. Many of these children come from broken families and live in harmful environments. For example, they experience domestic violence, or their parents or neighbors run a bar and they are exposed to alcohol consumption day and night. Many experience rejection or neglect or live in constant fear of witchcraft and curses. Too many grow up in the complicated environment of polygamous relationships. Therefore, we make a special effort to create a friendly atmosphere where they can share, make friends, discover their talents, and above all get to know God as their most important friend. Every Saturday we have Bible lessons, skits, dance, counseling, and also train life skills. In addition, we distribute school supplies three times a year at the beginning of each new term. Every Saturday after the Bible Club, there is always football training, which many truly love.
We are constantly planning new activities to make the children and youth as happy as possible.

Our kindergarten children attended classes more regularly this year than before. In addition, thanks to the help of our new assistant Ritah, we were able for the first time to enroll children with disabilities. On November 28, we held the parents’ visiting day. Parents came to watch performances by their children, get to know the facility better, and be informed about new developments. The children did an excellent job and presented poems, plays, songs, and dances. It was truly amazing!

In the case of one child in particular, neither the parents (who had separated shortly beforehand) nor other relatives came. The girl was so disappointed, especially since she was even a lead dancer. We all did our best to make her feel seen and valued.

As a team, we worked this year on improving ourselves so that we can serve the people here better. For example, our teachers and I attended a “Stoplight” training in central Uganda the week before last. It focused on emotional intelligence, especially on how we can help the people around us (e.g., the kindergarten children) feel seen, heard, and valued. The other event took place in Jinja on the Nile and focused on our relationship with God, our Father. All of this is so beneficial for our growth as a team and as servants of God, and we do not take it for granted that we had these opportunities for further training.

Many positive changes can also be seen among our Barikiwa children (children with disabilities). Our physiotherapy, hospital visits, and counseling have greatly impacted the lives of the children and their caregivers. There are still children who are hidden in houses because their relatives are ashamed of them, but we hope that through our program these children will also come to be valued.

Furthermore, we were able to help many sick people this year. Some suffer from epileptic seizures and require continuous medication and monitoring. Our cancer patients are still undergoing treatment. And our two children who had heart surgery are attending follow-up checkups. In addition, we treated some children with bone fractures and two boys who received leg prostheses. We trust God to bring healing to all of them!

I send you warm greetings with my favorite Bible verse, Matthew 25:40:

Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these
brothers of mine, you did for me.

Matthew 25:40

For me, this verse means that every person belongs to God and that God has given us the opportunity to treat others with kindness and compassion. Sometimes simply with a smile or a hug, sometimes with our time and money. But we should never forget that we are doing it for Jesus. Warm greetings and a blessed Christmas,

Prossy Akao