By Chris Emert It was May 2017, and I was on a long plane trip headed to Uganda. We were on our way to pick up three children and bring them back to Australia for surgery. I’d been before, but this trip would be different for me. Of course now I had some knowledge of… Continue reading The day I was given a gift
It was the middle of the night when a passer-by heard a gurgling sound coming from the bushes. It was Allan. He was 6 years old and had just been attacked by witch doctors. They castrated him. Sliced open his head with a machete and took a piece of his skull. Stabbed him to use… Continue reading He’s been called the ‘miracle boy’
How do you keep going when it takes years – 14 years – to see justice for an attack? This is life for the advocates in Kyampisi, who spend their days and nights stopping child sacrifice. It’s hard work. Slow work. But that doesn’t stop them. KCM might be a small, grass-roots organisation, but that… Continue reading When it takes 14 years to get justice
Your husband has died.You never finished primary school.And you have five children to feed. If this was you, what would you do? What’s your next step? For many Ugandan women who live this life, the streets become their homes. Or their children skip school, forced to feed the family. But this is not the reality… Continue reading Meet the Women of Kyampisi
He heard stories. Horrific stories. Stories of mothers who could no longer hold their babies. Of parents who were waiting for their children to walk through the door, but they never came home. It was these stories that compelled Peter Michael to do something. To bring change to his village called Kyampisi. It’s a place… Continue reading What made him go from accountant to activist?
Three children in Kyampisi, Uganda, need urgent surgery – and you can help bring them to Australia for treatment. Robert was hunted down by witch doctors in his small town in Uganda to be a child sacrifice. He now can’t walk properly. Mary accidentally drank a strong caustic agent and has been eating through a tube… Continue reading Get them to Australia for surgery
Last week a team from Droplets in A Stream was able to join in the first ever sensitisation march in Uganda bringing awareness and focussing on the abhorrent acts of child abuse in that country. Over 500 children and adults marched through the streets in solidarity with Kyampisi Childcare Ministries and others that are making… Continue reading DIAS against Child Sacrifice
DIAS has been working tirelessly over the last month to make incredible gains for 2016 … Tax Deductibility After many years of research and investigations we decided late last year to apply for tax deductibility. After seeking legal opinion it was determined that we do qualify for tax deductibility. An application was then lodged with… Continue reading Lots happening behind the scenes
Rodney and Benice Callanan have just returned from 2 weeks in Kampala, Uganda. The trip was planned to coincide with a Neurosurgery Camp run by Dr John Christie of Newcastle’s, John Hunter Hospital. Dr Christie operated on Allan Sembatya in 2013 when he came to Australia after falling victim to a rogue witch doctor and… Continue reading Kyampisi Update – 11/15
Since the return of the team that went to Uganda in June a lot more has happened: The New Seasons Pharmacy which was a bare shell without windows is now painted and tiled and about to furnished. This business venture will become the income stream for a School in the outer slums of Kampala where… Continue reading Huge Progress on Uganda Projects
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