Supplies for Africa

We are leaving for Uganda in 9 days!  For our trip we are allowed to bring 150 lbs per person.  If anyone is interested in helping us fill these suitcases with things to bring to the people of Africa with us.  We will be visiting a few different people groups while we are in Uganda including Canaan Farm (where we will be for the majority of our time), an IDP camp (government run Internally Displaced Peoples' Camp), a Compassion International project to visit Donavan's sponsor child and the possibilty of an AIDs community (AIDs Orphans Education Trust).  Here is a list of items, if you are interested in helping us fill these needs email us at yobelmarket@gmail.com to arrange pick up/ drop off.  

Clothing- all ages, sexes and sizes.  Mostly children.  Avoid heavy branded clothing. 

Shoes-all sizes and types

Books in English- with pictures or not.  They love spiritual commentaries

Toys for the children- Deflated balls, learning toys and durable toys

Hard candy- Nothing that melts

Bubbles

Medical- Multi vitamins, over-the-counter meds, first aid supplies, baby formula, colic formula

School Supplies- pens, pencils, crayons, creative material, learning books, notebooks

Bags- Bags to carry the school supplies in and to help bring supplies to and from the market

Material scraps

Craft supplies- beads and string, scissors, needle and tread

Calculators

Flashlights with batteries

Blankets, Jackets

Soaps and lotions

Dental supplies

Disposable Cameras

If you have any other ideas let us know.  

Soup for Africa

Soup for Africa at Woodland Park High School was a great success.  The student body proved they have much to offer and today’s youth has vision and purpose.  The Student council decided to partner with us to help raise money to build a school in Uganda for a group of people we are working with.   Student Council worked very hard to put the event on, thank you. 

Kids Can Change the World, a local group of kids with big hearts also participated in the event with a dance inspired by their desire to change the world and be involved in fighting injustice.  They are definitely people who are making a change locally and globally.  Yet another encounter with how the youth are making big impacts. 

The goal of the event was to raise money for a school for a population in Uganda that Yobel works with.  We are working together with Canaan Farm in Uganda with a group of women and former child soldiers to start a business with them.  The model is simple, to empower the people to become self-sufficient without the need for foreign aid.  At Canaan Farm, they grow their own food and can take care of many needs of theirs but they have no money for more, like education.  There are around 100 kids that live on the farm who have grown up around civil war and have seen someone they love killed right in front of them.  Our vision is to partner with them to build a school on the farm for these children.  Education is key in battle of poverty.  It is a building block in life.   We asked the women of the farm who are working with us to make bamboo jewelry what is their community’s biggest need and most of them said a school.   Yobel believes that the youth of Canaan Farm have the opportunity to change their nation and rebuild what war has destroyed.   

Uganda has seen so much evil in the past years; evil has run havoc on this nation and displace thousands of people from their homes.   It is estimated that 30,000 children ages 7 to 17 have been kidnapped and forced to fight for the LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army).   These children are forced to fight, to kill and forget who they were to participate in the battle that has destroyed a nation.   Learn more about this issue and what you can do to make a difference in someone’s life.    

The night was wonderful.  We had all of the soup donated by Garden of the Gods’ Gourmet Catering Company.  They were so generous to make so much soup for the cause.  We are looking forward to work together on more projects.  Einstein Bagels and Whole Foods donated the bread for the event, thank you.  The community of Woodland Park also rallied together and donated the tablecloths (Swiss Chalet) and many items for the silent auction. 

Thank you everyone who supported us and our vision.  We would like to especially thank our friends for their support and help pulling the event off.  Yobel would not where we are if it was not for you all.