BRIDGE OF HOPE AFRICA MINISTRIES
PO Box 96091, Portland, OR 97296 boham.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Provide Ugandan children in desperate need with access to education, micro-enterprise opportunities and Christian discipleship to develop their unique potential of becoming future change agents for their society.

Child sponsorship fees cover school supplies, scholastics, uniforms, meals, medical care, microenterprise supplies, and training and other related expenses. The heart of our ministry is to provide opportunities for children. We believe teaching children entrepreneurial skills will put them on a path toward success. We aim to do that through the microenterprise component of sponsorship. In 2019, more than 110 children and families started the microenterprise project to earn additional income. The microenterprise project through our sponsorship program has been the rearing of chickens and selling of eggs. The entire family learns important business concepts such as budgeting and saving for the future. By caring for chickens, children and their families experience better nutrition themselves by selling eggs, they earn a small income, which makes for a much brighter future for both the families and their children. Families have also reported experiencing a new sense of ownership and pride in their small business and empowerment over their lives. Other business projects include investing in the parent's small businesses like selling charcoal and firewood, selling groceries and fruit, sewing and tailoring work, boda boda driving, livestock rearing, and other selling types of work.

Support of the Uganda office has enabled the direct tangible support of children and their families. This expense covers community development, discipleship, and related supplies. The majority of our Ugandan staff are former sponsored children who personally experienced the life-transforming effects of being assisted out of poverty. They understand firsthand the needs of the communities we serve and are passionate about finding solutions to poverty. Each day, the staff interacts with families and provides support in the form of social work. They provide regular home visits to check on families and offer tangible, emotional, and spiritual support. Community development trainings work to teach and enhance skills for families in our program, including training on: parenting, hygiene/sanitation, family planning, job skills, etc. In addition, we offer a Women's Sewing Project Initiative. Mothers who join the project learn valuable skills and gain the confidence to be entrepreneurs in their communities.

Child gifts provided by US-based donors and wired directly to the office in Uganda. These child gift donations allow the staff to purchase food and critical supplies for sponsored children and for the families of sponsored children. Many families lack the basic, everyday necessities to allow them to fully function and to be lifted out of poverty. Providing such basics as a mattress, food package, hygiene kit, or solar panel is a tangible and substantial way to help families in need. A staggering 80 percent of families in the BOHAM program lack proper bedding, and 60 percent of our sponsored children often go without food during school breaks. Thankfully, child gifts are one way that sponsors and ministry partners can give above and beyond to sponsored children within the program. In 2019, 140 children were impacted by child gifts. A total of 1,093 gifts were provided from donors, totaling $84,325 of donations.

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