News

March 2014

Emmanuel Clinic

Monthly clinic support

for 3 years - $1150/mo

Consider $10-$25 /mo

$100 donation and your name goes on the sustainer’s plaque

Building funds complete

“Adopt a Goat” Clinic Sustainability

Campaign

Raised $7,000!

$3000 for fence needed

Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser

Raised nearly $10,000

Thank you!

Donors and Volunteers

You make a difference!

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59104

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All can say is wow! I was so

encouraged and uplifted by all the

work done today, both at the clinic

and in the classroom. Nadine and I

(Mariel) had a training session with

the Village Health Team. We used

the new training manual I devel-

oped this summer during my in-

ternship with H2O Life, and they

responded well to the new format

(large, laminated pictures included).

We taught about hygiene and sanita-

tion, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and meth-

ods for community mobilization, and

more.. Another big highlight was

giving 4 more VHTs their new bicy-

cles, which they use to communicate

to the villagers health sessions and

clinic examination days.

In the afternoon, we had nearly

100 village members gathered out-

side the clinic for a health educa-

tion session led by the VHTs! They

used their new manuals to teach all

about hygiene and sanitation, den-

tal care, diarrhea, maternal child

health and malaria. Nadine, Susan,

and I acted out a skit comparing a

smart mother who bought a mosquito

net for her family and a stubborn

mother who refused to buy a net, her

whole family became sick. The peo-

ple loved the illustration (complete

with Nadine and a few ladies dancing

and singing under their net), and at

the end we announced a special gift-

we gave everyone who attended the

training FREE insecticide-treated

mosquito nets, soap, toothbrushes,

and deworming pills!! They all

promised to take very good care of

their new nets, and one man gave an

enthusiastic thank you speech. He

has 8 children and could not afford

a mosquito net for all of them, so

he was so thankful for Hope 2 One

Life's work in bringing nets to the

community.

Uganda Mission Team 2014

departs April 22nd.

Emmanuel Clinic is Open!

The contrasts in Uganda are

drastic: the fertile, flourishing

South vs the dry, challenging North.

One woman dressed in the full

chitenge dress w/ African fabric and

head scarf vs a man in jeans and an

Orange Crush t-shirt. The lan-

guages: Acholi, Luganda, Swahili,

Lugishu, English, Alur, Lubwara,

Kinyoro, and many more vying for

prominence. The peaceful, hazy,

safe environment vs the inconceiv-

able atrocities that occured in the

North.

We experienced more joy,

dancing and singing- the theme/

heartbeat of Kampala Village-

yesterday. It was touching to see the

children excited about their crayolas

and coloring paper (a picture of

hands washing to prevent

sickness-educate,,educate!)

Today my 20 students

worked hard to get English into

their brains. It touched me to see

an 80-year-old woman spread her

arthritic hands across the Primer

and carefully sound out 'b-a-s-k-e

-t.' One's age is never a limitation

to the zealous possibility to learn

and expand. We followed with a

Bible study

on love-how

we can love

only because

God in-

vented love

and loved us

first. Also

we had great discussion on what

loving our brothers and sisters

looks like-literally being Jesus'

hands and feet.

Heather Rieland

Mariel Rieland, Student

Seattle Pacific University

Uganda Mission December 2013

Village Health Team

I am so blessed to witness

and participate in the incredi-

ble work God is doing

through all of the members of

H2O Life/Family Empower-

ment-Uganda!

Emmanuel clinic operates as a limited resource model serving remote, poor villages. Clinic and Health Education Tues - Sat 8 am - 5 pm. Clinic Staff Doctor, Nurse, Clinical Officer,

Lab Tech, Nurse Manager, Accountant

Clinic Staff

Village Health Team Lab

Pharmacy

Hope 2 One Life

PO Box 21112

Billings, MT 59104

KAMPALA VILLAGE DEEP WATER WELL DRILLED!

Today was a day of rich fulfillment for Kampala

village and for me as well. The first water from the

very first water well this village of 5,000 has ever

seen came to the surface and we all rejoiced and

danced and laughed and sang together. We all

praised our Lord for the blessings he delivered to us

our people. This well was several years in the plan-

ning, grant writing ,funding, scheduling and finally

drilling. When the first two borehole attempts failed

the borehole, the ladies of the village cried, fearing

they would have to return to using the mudhole in the

creek bottom. Draco honored their commitment and the

third attempt was successful! I got a good cross cul-

tural laugh when I filled my bush hat with the well

water and dumped it over my head twice! Then the

ladies also splashed the water all over themselves, and

of course the children

got in the act. In the

end it was a commu-

nal baptism of new

water and new life!

We made a 6 hour

trip from the FEM

Farm, north to Pala-

bek, northwest of Kitgum. It is

very close to the border with

South Sudan. We visited the

small isolated Lairobe village

of Opopo Witty, an elder from

the FEM farm and originally

from this village. As we

walked the bush trail to his

former home, he describe the time the LRA rebels in-

vaded his area and attempted to force his sons to join

them. They all refused, and as a consequence, the

LRA murdered 5 of his sons right in front of his

eyes that night. It was deeply moving to stand at the

very site as he described this. We met a couple of his

grandchildren who still live on this land. With their

help we located a 2 acre area on his property that ap-

pears to offer the best possibility of a new well. The

people currently obtain their water from a stream that

goes dry. Installing a borehole would let more peo-

ple re-settle this area after being displaced by war

for over 20 years and greatly improve their health.

We hope to write a grant and are praying about this

future possibility for clean water to help in post war

recovery of this region. Thank you NWGREF!

Water Development Projects

Lairobe Village

Deep Water Well Solar

- need $29,000

Emmanuel Clinic

Second Water Tank

Installed!

Rain Water Collection System: $1,500

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…Save The Date

World Water Day Walk for Water

Saturday, March 22, 10 AM Rocky Mountain College

Tom Osborne, Hydrologist

and H20 Board Member

OUR MISSION IS TO PROVIDE HOPE, CLEAN WATER, HEALTHCARE AND EDUCATIONAL

RESOURCES FOR IMPOVERISHED PEOPLE.

Hope 2 One Life is empowering widows, orphans and families in Uganda with the

goal toward community restoration from war and poverty, self independence

and sustainability, while valuing each life with dignity and all persons as

children of God.