About TTW Uganda

Our vision is to equip the people of Uganda to live in communities of self-sufficiency, sustainability, and spiritual transformation.

Spiritual transformation is at the core of all that we do - offering the grace of God to those we interact with and to disciple them to become mature followers of Jesus. The struggles of a life lived in extreme poverty often build a barrier to accepting and understanding Christ's love. Therefore, we believe that physical needs must often be met in conjunction with spiritual needs.

Projects of self-sufficiency and sustainability within communities are designed to address the entire villages' most pressing needs in order to bring them out of desperate poverty and into a life of hope for the future. Self-sufficiency occurs when a community takes ownership of changing their conditions and keeps them from becoming dependant upon outsiders to survive. Sustainability involves job and life skill training and equipping people with the necessary resources to maintain a continual source of provision for themselves and their families.

We are currently implementing our vision in some of the most vulnerable communities within IDP Camps of Gulu, Northern Uganda and assisting orphans and vulnerable children living in the outskirts of the capital city of Kampala.

Dream Center

TTW Uganda has been working intimately with the village of Adak in Gulu, northern Uganda. This village is home to over one thousand people, mostly former child soldiers, abductees or those affected by the long-standing war in this region. Our desire as a ministry is to assist those most affected by the war through training in job skills and trades. This desire has birthed "Dream Center", the name under which we legally operate in Uganda and specifically titles our area of ministry involving vocational training.

Students

The majority of the Dream Center students from Gulu are former child soldiers, abductees or otherwise deeply affected by the trauma of the war. Most of our students, though burdened with the responsibilities of caring for orphaned children, are just young kids themselves. The average age of our student is 20 years old, with most students ranging in age from 16-28 years old. These young people grew up in the midst of chaos and never had the opportunity for formal education. Now that peace has finally come upon the northern region of Uganda, at this point in their lives it is too late for them to begin primary schooling. Therefore, they are in dire need of learning a skill or trade that will enable and empower them to build a new life for their families.Sponsor a Student

Our Future

In early 2008, TTW began purchasing land within the village of Adak to prepare for our future dreams of how Dream Center can provide a better life for this community. To date, we have about an acre in property that will be the future home of an entire sustainable community center. Currently, the TTW land houses two small mud huts. latrine and bathing rooms used for visiting teams and staff field workers. An open-air structure is also in place and utilized for training of the Dream Center students. This is only the very beginning of the dreams we hope to fulfill...

Pray with us as we prepare for the building of a full service medical center. The nearest clinic is approximately twenty kilometers from the center of Adak village, leaving most people little option for health treatment especially in case of an emergency. People are left to suffer and die. It is our desire to assist with this enormous need and build a facility that will be able to treat all major medical problems and will also be able to perform minor surgeries. We will be working with the assistance of "Dreams For Africa" in the development of this project. Learn more...

Ignite a Movement

Our true desire is to see the work of Touch The World Uganda reach far beyond the land of Africa and deeply penetrate the hearts and minds of the American Church. Having grown up in small, affluent suburbs of New Jersey, we are passionate about taking that affluence which usually produces apathy and transforming it into energy and action for the Kingdom of God.

We pray and believe that God is going to work in ways far exceeding our imaginations in the communities of Uganda that we are connected with, but our even greater prayer is that the change occurring in Africa would inspire a truly greater movement in America. To live in our comfortable homes and ignore the problems of the impoverished world when we have the ability to help cannot go unexcused. Mother Teresa put this best in words when she said, "It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." There is no voice as powerful and loud as the one who holds a passport from the United States of America.

So we challenge you now to get connected, come to Uganda and IGNITE A MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE in your circle of influence and around the world.

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