Smile has been working in Uganda since 2004 in partnership with the Stephen Jota Centre near Kampala. Smile’s Sponsor a Child scheme provides 500 children with food, education and healthcare. Smile has provided shoeboxes, computers, medical supplies, crockery and educational materials for the school. Smile also helped to redecorate an orphanage and supplied new beds and mattresses. Our ministry teams have helped to improve facilities at the school by refurbishing the kitchen, installing a water tower, laying flooring, upgrading toilets and redecorating. Our gap year teams also help with the practical work as well as teaching and organising sports and music activities in the school, working in the slums with HIV/AIDS projects and helping the church with their outreach and evangelistic ministries. Through our Sponsor a Widow programme Smile is also caring for widows where the stigma of HIV/AIDS has led to social isolation. Smile’s support helps to provide the basic necessities of food, clothing, wood for heating and cooking, and healthcare. Smile has also organized first aid training at the school and brought two students to the UK for theological training at Brandon Bible School. Smile is also looking at the possibility of providing a much needed hospice facility in the future. Read team member Sarah Wright's article on her trip to Uganda in 2007   Feeding at the Stephen Jota Children's Centre

   
Stephen Jota Children's Centre: feeding and helping in the classroom – Gifts for widows

   
Sports equipment provided through Gifts With Love – Smile team visiting the church in Kampala – Sewing project for job creation