Upendo Journal

The nuns arrived March 5 to great fanfare from the village.

We have built the Corn Mill House to install the corn mill. The house is complete and the mill is bought but we need money… Read More »New John Deere tractor arrived July, 2016

The Madeke Farm is producing pineapples.  The challenge is transportation, and thus the need for a truck. We are shifting slightly to emphasize more avocado… Read More »Madeke Farm

The pedal powered sewing machines have been put to good use. The Matrons and Mercy (who Bahoze trained in 2016 visit) were able to use… Read More »New sewing machines

The fish pond was completed, filled with water and on the 7th of this month we stocked it with fish and out of 200 only… Read More »Fish Pond Construction in Ibumila 2017

The first task when I returned full time in 2016 was to finish the Chapel Kindergarten Complex. We are just waiting for the benches/pews in… Read More »Finished Chapel

We now care for 104 orphans as a whole. 22 orphans at Mafinga, 19 in Uwemba and 63 at Ibumila. We currently have 12 matrons… Read More »TOUCO Welcomed 60 new orphans and recruited 4 new Matrons at the end of 2016.

I am a widow who come from Ikingula, almost 6o kilometers from Yerusalem Upendo Family in Mafinga.  I got married in 2001 and had a… Read More »My Life Story: Felista Mwigani

I am a second-grade child, ten years old and an orphan. The story is that my father died but what I know is that my… Read More »My Life Story: Timothy Kaduma