Australia Hope International in Nairne, South Australia | Community group

Australia Hope International

Locality: Nairne, South Australia

Phone: +61 8 8388 0743

Address: 72 Main Rd 5252 Nairne, SA, Australia

Website: http://www.ahi.org.au/

Likes: 1050

Add/Update information

Reviews

Tags

• Community group
• Non-profit organisation
• Community organisation
• Non-governmental organisation (NGO)

25.01.2022 Time Flies!! 20 years since my first trip to Uganda! With Norma and Rebekah, headed for our first remote village, Kitenda, where we met a special little girl, Millie, who died of Malaria one week after our return home, but who inspired the formation of HOPE. One girl's death brought hope to thousands of African children.

24.01.2022 Abandonment, Rescue, Pastoral Care, Education and HOPE. This is Sam and Patience. I can't tell their stories here, but their graduation day is too wonderful. Sam achieved a Diploma in Agriculutre and Patience a Certificate in Tourism and Hotel Management. These are two of dozens moving forward in vocational training and tertiary studies from sponsorship support. Thankyou to all sponsors of HOPE children in our amazing partner's care.

24.01.2022 HOPE partner CVM has targeted the disadvantaged and disabled this time with the latest phase of emergency food relief. Thanks Kenny, Kaazi and John and team for a great job in bringing hope and joy to those most disadvantaged during COVID restrictions. Thankyou all donors.

23.01.2022 THERE'S STILL TIME! So many people living on the brink, and your tax deductible donation can bring emergency food relief that brings hope to a refugee family. And our Secondary School needs finishing off building work and constructing a boys dorm as a priority. These are our 2 key projects you can donate to before June 30th. Thankyou for caring.

22.01.2022 Reports of starvation - you can help. - https://mailchi.mp/8c2a6/reports-of-starvation-you-can-help

22.01.2022 REMINDER: Our AGM for 2019/2020 is this Sunday 8th November, at 2pm at Jambo Sana, 72 Main Rd, Nairne. Members and friends or those interested are welcome. Afternoon Tea provided. https://www.ahi.org.au/about-/annual-reports.html

21.01.2022 Thankyou for donors to the Emergency Medical Fund, Gift Cards and one off donations. We have been able to transport the blind family from Nakivale Refugee camp to an ye Clinic in Mbarara where the children are trying special glasses before they return in a month for decision about future treatment. The father will stay in hospital for surgery. Our partner RWC bought them clothes, bedding and food as there is nothing provided in care.

20.01.2022 Our partner Amari Community Development Project directed by Marita Simpson in Bulissa Northern Uganda reports how they are helping some critical needs in families along the shores of Lake Albert. The COVID restrictions are taking a toll among the poorest villages.

18.01.2022 We appreciate the donations to Nakivale HOPE School emergency food relief. Willy Tumwine and Head teacher Elias can now start distributing to the most needy in the school community and the camp. $8000 has been given so far. We also received over $4000 for the Kibogo flood relief and were able to quickly distribute food relief to nearly 500 people who exclaimed it was miracle they got food and pastoral care in their crisis. As the COVID lockdown restrictions impact the isolated, disabled, elderly and poverty stricken, we hope to do more with further donations. Our partners are ready!

17.01.2022 This is the second Relief focus areas in need now. Our partner RWC has dispensed relief to the Burundian refugees in Nakivale, and some of 800 refugee families near Kasese where Ps Willy Tumwine has a church. The families in a camp near Kasese were reached by loading our food relief into canoes as the region was also flooded severely with many families losing everything. Our support next time will be food and tarpaulins so they can make temporary shelters where homes have been destroyed. You can donate here... https://www.ahi.org.au/what-you-can-do/donate.html

17.01.2022 MANY REFUGEE CHILDREN AWAIT SPONSORSHIP AND HOPE! "Estelli is 5 yrs old from DR Congo. Her parents fled war to Nakivale but died soon after. She is cared for by a neighbour who has 12 children in 2 mud and grass huts. Estelli wants to be an auditor so she can repay her carers for their love and care as an orphan girl." You can select a child for sponsoring here... https://www.ahi.org.au/what-you-can-do/select-a-child.html

17.01.2022 SERVING THE FORGOTTEN & FORSAKEN. Our partner in western Uganda penned an email that is really a BIG thankyou to all who have donated emergency food relief during lockdown ... "If the current crisis can teach us anything, let it be awareness that we are all in this together. It has been more important to value our shared humanity; to bring compassion and care to our neighbors near and far. I stand in awe of your generosity, your spirit, and the way so many of you have step...ped up to bring relief food, education to those in need. The starved elderly people of kibogo-Kabuga community, slum areas of Ndegge in Kampala, and Bwikaragye will live forever appreciating AHI for the work well done in giving them relief food. Thanks you for steering us in right direction. You have shown us a way forward that is paved with kindness, love, and the determination to make our better world for all. As CVM, we are humbled to walk alongside with you in this journey. " In gratitude, See more

16.01.2022 Here's what our 752 children in Nakivale HOPE School are doing during COVID lockdown and restrictions.

16.01.2022 Shared by Mozart Kile partner HCLS. He believes it will help many understand an overview of events that plague DR Congo and he thanks our sponsor and supporters for standing with him and the HOPE School projects in Bunia.

15.01.2022 Here is one story from Kabuga hill flooding near Kibogo HOPE School and Kabuga HOPE Vocational Secondary School. This is where the donations received (thankyou all donors!) are going.Well done to our partners Kenny, Kaazi and John who are working tirelessly getting food to the most needy victims of the flooding and those struggling with the COVID lockdown in Uganda. Kenny reports... "This house belonged to a 68 year old woman. She was staying in this house with a grandson of ...about 25 years. This is her daughter in this pics as well as the grandson who has knee injuries. They say it was at around 7:30pm when they had finished having supper and that it was raining like as usual, but later it changed into worse after seeing water flooding in the house. The grandson called his grandmother who was already in the bed by the time the house flooded and he informed her. When she was getting off the bed, there was water already in in her room. The son left for the neighbors' house but all was in vain he was swept away by flooding water for about 6 km away from grandmother house. As soon as the grandmother left the house also, it started falling apart. She was carried away by the flooding water for about 7 km away from her house. She was dumped and half way buried by the flooding sand but by Gods' grace and mercy she was found still alive though she was not putting on any cloth. She is now under treatment from government hospital. So I didn't find her at home but I found her daughter who received our support on her behalf. She informed us that her mother was improving slowly. Here are pics showing there demolished house and the gardens. All those stones were brought by the flooding water from the hill." See more

14.01.2022 Head Teacher Elias at Nakivale HOPESchool did such an amazing job with our partner RWC distributing emergency food last year and reports from the beneficiaries who wanted to send a message.... Elias reports "These were hungry Burundian Refugees in Nakivale Refugee Camp who were given big food relief by Australia Hope International &RWC during the hardest days of Covid,,they asked me to extend their heartfelt appreciation to all the Donors,AHI&RWC" Imagine life where you flee conflict in your homeland to another country, are given a small plot and a tarpaulin to build a home, and pray you just survive. Brave people, mothers and children indeed. They are grateful.

14.01.2022 Want to go into Christmas this year with a rewarding gift for you and for someone? 3,000 children in Uganda and Congo are waiting for a sponsor. $50 per month will help the child survive well, help their family and help fund a HOPE School project. Want to help? https://www.ahi.org.au/what-you-can-do/sponsor-a-child.html

14.01.2022 When mother gets a little Maize flour and some beans, she needs firewood and water to cook for the family. These boys must brave the COVID lockdown restrictions on movement and move out to provide these items. Thanks to all who have donated in the past few days to the COVID Emergency Food Relief to Jono/AFM, COME Uganda, Amari Com. Development and today our first donation for partner CVM. Thankyou for seeing the need beyond our shores. Please donate ref. 'COVID emergency food relief" BSB 105-025 Account 050 219 640. Australia HOPE International. BSA.

13.01.2022 Ignatious is in grade 2 but the COVID lockdown has closed his HOPE School and caused the father to abandon the family out of desperation from abject poverty. So what does he do? He starts 2 businesses. One is a 'quarrying' business, crushing stones with bigger stones and selling to builders. Two is a chicken business, he bought a chicken and now sells eggs. This is to pay his school fees when school opens and to buy food for his mother and siblings. The older boys from Kabuga HOPE Vocational Secondary are doing similar, crushing stones and building beehives for honey collection. We have over 4,000 students out of school in desperate situations and survival is now a big challenge.

11.01.2022 2 Emergency Relief area needs in Uganda. This one is in the Kibogo/Kabuga/Kamwenge region. Our partner CVM is ready to distribute more food and tarpaulins to people who are landless or even homeless. Your support can bring instant hope and joy to those families suffering a rigid COVID lockdown (they can not get to food outlets), floods in some areas and hunger. The photos here show the the joy our relief has brought. Tax deductible donations are received here... https://www.ahi.org.au/what-you-can-do/donate.html

10.01.2022 Marita, Amari partner director visiting her locals in strict COVID lockdown and serious flooding. Well done Marita for considering and caring for those villagers near you.

09.01.2022 The bad news is we at AHI lose a wonderful partner, 'the 2h project'. The good news is they have just achieved registration as a Deductible Gift Recipient in their own right, so no longer need our financial and admin support. Headed up by Kate and Kev Taylor, this great organisation does an amazing work in Cambodia and I encourage you to check out their story here... https://www.the2hproject.com/our-story Congratulations 2h, we will miss close contact but look forward to keeping in touch with your progress.

09.01.2022 https://www.theguardian.com//burundi-ethnic-violence-refug (please note this link to news is 4 years old now, but local and international media are currently banned in Burundi where elections associated with violence have just happened.) This link to an article helps explain what is happening in Burundi and why Nakivale Refugee Camp, and our HOPE School there are flooded with asylum seekers from that country. Pictured is Head Teacher Elias, with Willy Tumwine, working tire...lessly to support these families with emergency food relief. Elias has not left our school since the COVID lockdown. Reports are that we have covered about half these families and we now ask for further donations so we can stand with more people who have already been through too much. If already donated, THANKYOU, otherwise we look forward to more support. https://www.ahi.org.au/what-you-can-do/donate.html See more

08.01.2022 A long awaited empty-able latrine finally being built at Kibogo HOPE School under the watchful eye of our engineer Kyezi (red shirt).

08.01.2022 S4 students from the HOPE Secondary School in Kabuga, Uganda about to board their school 'Bus' (a cattle truck) for another registered school to sit for final exams following COVID delays. Wishing them all the best! With more funding support we can get this school licensed (now near completion), then registered, and an upgraded science lab, library, computer lab and latrines. S3 and S4 students are now back in school after COVID rules easing a little.

08.01.2022 This family of 7 has fled conflict and now sets up home (a UN tarp and a little mud) in Nakivale Refugee Camp in the midst of the strict COVID lockdown. Head Teacher Elias (with the mask) hands them some much needed Maize flour from the supplies partner Ps Willy Tumwine and team are delivering to the most needy families. Thankyou to all donors that are bringing hope and huge relief to hundreds.

07.01.2022 Greetings to all, This is to report on the work of distributing the food donations donated by by good hearted people through Australia HOPE international. Am happy to inform you that we have been able to distributed 6.5 tonnes of maize flour to 650 families which has been a great relief to these stranded families because of the lockdown caused by coronavirus.... Our prayer is that this lockdown come to an end soon because if it continues these families and more many families are facing very tough time ahead, people are facing starvation. So keep us in prayer. Finally this is to ask if there is more donations, we will be very grateful because even with the 650 families that have benefited still there is more families that we would wish to give some food. Otherwise we are very grateful for your generous donation that has put a smile on many families here, thank very much and God bless you abundantly. Willy Tumwine - RWC in partnership with AHI.

04.01.2022 AGM report for 2019/20 now available. Our Annual Meeting will be on Sunday November 8th at 2pm at Jambo Sana. Come to be updated, bring your questions and enjoy afternoon tea with us. Get you Report copy here... https://www.ahi.org.au//e/AGM%201920%20%20better%20pdf.pdf

01.01.2022 Carting wood, water and digging food gardens. Plenty to do for thousands of Hope School children during COVID school closures.

01.01.2022 So, having put this photo of Head Teacher Elias delivering emergency food relief to this family in the refugee camp, we learn that all family members are blind. I have no idea how they survive, no electricity, no water, no furniture... nothing! But how blessed are we to help them even in this small way. I am wondering if their blindness is curable and can we help get them checked and supported.