How it got startet ...
- Christine Fenboeck, a certified children nurse and initiator of Helping
Hands Family, tells her story:
In 1999, Mrs. Fenboeck received a letter from Uganda, East Africa, written by
a young girl and her four siblings who had lost their parents through AIDS.
After their father had died, the eldest daughter, at that time 16 years of age,
took care of her sick mother and her sick baby-sister until both also died.
All five surviving children - deprived of further education and financial income
- had few chances for their future.
What could they do?
They cried out to God and He heard them: While searching for someone to be willing
to help financially, the eldest sister miraculously found in a waste paper basket
in Kampala a catalog-page listing Austrian environmental companies.
That catalog listed the company of Mr. and Mrs. Fenboeck. The girl took courage
and wrote a letter to Mrs. Fenboeck explaining her situation and asking for
support. Mrs. Fenboeck decided to help those children, visited her and the siblings,
and since then she has been financing the education of orphans in Uganda.
Today, the once small beginning has become a growing project with a clear
vision.
A children village for orphans
- Helping Hands Family's vision is to set up a Children Village
that includes a home for orphans, schools, and a farm.
- As we wish to enable the Ugandan people themselves to establish
this project, they will maintain their African lifestyle and raise
young people who understand the needs of their fellow citizens.
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«Red is the soil, golden
the sun, brown the people and full of hope their eyes. They
look at me asking: Will you bring us help, will you bring us hope?
Yes, I will, I will make bright your eyes!»
Christine Fenboeck
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