St Paul & Rose Orphan Home

After being in Uganda for 3 weeks I was so excited to finally make it out to visit the St. Paul and Rose Orphan Home. We traveled for nearly three hours to this rural village to meet the 30 orphans that stay there, but it was well worth it. When we got off the taxi we were greeted by cheering and singing as the kids rushed out to meet us. They sat us under a tree and sang to us for nearly 30 minutes. Good thing I had glasses on because my eyes were tearing up the whole time. The children were so amazing and intelligent. It was so hard to believe that they had all lived a significant portion of their lives on the streets where Rose and Paul had found them. Now they are managing a farm and going to school and learning to be good Christians. It was a perfect day and reminded me of exactly why I wanted to come to Africa. They shared everything they had with us. Hopefully we can give something back. We're working on trying to help them with an income-generation project. They've requested a chicken coop to sell eggs and poultry, so we will be going back soon to see what we can do!

The village where the orphanage is located in the village
of Buula.


Wearing the bead necklaces that the orphans make out
of little strips of paper and sell to pay their school fees.

The children enjoying their dinner of matoke. Every
Ugandan says this is their favorite meal...

The group eating the matoke and GNut sauce that Rose
prepared for us. We at Ugandan style...with our hands and
completely against all the sanitation lessons we've been
advocating...none of us had washed our hands. All day.