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In 2003, when Cate was seven years old, she was selected for sponsorship, but only remembers her photo being taken. When she went to school, she lived with her grandma in a family of five relatives. Her mother died in 1998, her father in 2001. One day she asked grandma, ‘How did my mum die [...]
We recently reported (26 May) that Simon, a former student of Trust High School and previously in the care of the foster home was involved, as a passenger, in a very serious boda boda motorbike accident which killed the driver. We are delighted to report that Simon is now on the road to recovery because [...]
When it rains in Uganda it doesn’t rain cats and dogs. It rains elephants and hippos! Most rural roads aren’t ‘paved’ (tarmac or concrete) but compacted earth – or, when it rains, sloshy mud! As a result of heavy rain, the road quickly become impassable. It our early travels, it once took several hours to [...]
The Foster Home is vital - giving hope to so many children. Some of these precious children have been bereaved and are without a parent. Some have been abandoned because their parent simply can’t afford to feed them, so their mum begged KDP to provide for the child they abandoned. For each child, QT had [...]
The quads are crawling, so the only peace mum gets is when someone like Nurse Hasifah visits to play with them. And now they are crawling around – all in different directions at the same time!
How can a mum and dad with a 6-year-old son and quads, nearly aged one, find any peace together? Certainly not in their two-room house – so a quiet time together outside. A time to hold hands and be still...
It started as a village health centre in 2004. Over the years its services have grown and become increasingly respected by the Ministry of Health. For some time it has been a Level 3 health centre, still a village health centre, to serve a target population of 20,000. The Ministry of Health has upgraded its [...]
There are lots of interesting and different things to see and do in Kabubbu. If you look upwards, you will see many ‘strange’ sights in the trees from hornbills to nesting storks. Here are two others. But what are they? What are the rough grey balls on the branches and what makes them? What are [...]
When the first completed project in Kabubbu was opened, in 2002, QT invited a very important Guest-of-Honour, Tom Phillips, to the occasion. The first of several high-profile people who have visited Kabubbu and opened things! What was Tom’s position? What did he open? Send your answers to QT each day using Facebook messenger from the [...]
Shoes are simple in Kabubbu. Flip Flops are the popular style as they are cheap and easy to slip off when entering homes to keep the dirt out. QT has supplied thousands of pairs over the years. But what they had before we usually locally made. What are these made of? How are the straps [...]