🌳 Our progress and current needs. See photos! 🌴🌳

[EcoMercy International]

Dear friends,

May God bless you for helping. May God bless all who donated for upgrading the utility shelter into living quarters. Completing this small house is another step toward fulfilling our mission, which is as follows:

"To empower Nakyaka village children and youth with the mastery of permaculture concepts and solutions, while facilitating their academic schooling, for the strengthening of families and the glory of Jesus Christ.”

Fr. Stephen will move into the house with his family when it is complete and then, after we can finally build Fr. Stephen’s permanent house, it will become the guest house for EcoMercy International supporters.

It will take some more funds to fully complete the house. The first phase of completing the walls and cement floor and adding steel exterior doors and windows is nearly complete. See the photos below. The second and final phase will be completing the interior finish work, including the ceiling, adding attic vents and painting.

Once again, here is the structure as it was before:

Here it is being improved. Stelio Lunagula is helping with that.

From the front:

And here is the latest photo:

Mark Lunagula, together with some local youth (I’m missing their names) made the necessary bricks:

🌳🌴 By the way, we’ve also managed to fund an initial purchase of tree seedings!!! 🌴🌳 More news on that to come.

Please help with our current needs:

1. Plastering and painting the primary kitchen ($800) and the primary teacher's house ($260). See budget below.

2. Interior finish work, paint ($1745) and attic vents ($70) for what I’m going to call our "guest house," (the upgraded utility shelter), which will serve as Fr. Stephen’s next dwelling and will eventually be the guest house for visiting EcoMercy International supporters and “permaculture learning center” for locals. See budget below.

3. Solar/battery low-voltage lighting system for the guest house ($516). See budget below.

4. Water tank for the guest house ($1097.) See budget below.

5. Purchasing a printer for Fr. Stephen’s & Mark’s use (about $200).

Total: $4,688

6. Fixing the permitter fence. Purchasing animals may need to wait until we can do this. A barbed wire fence with wooden stakes, which we installed very cheaply has been damaged recently by termites. We need to install cement posts or ISSB block posts instead of wooden posts. No budget for this yet.

7. Taking a trip to Uganda. If people send me Bibles and other books they no longer want I will take them with me to Uganda on my next visit. (Send to 97992 Hall Way, Harbor, Oregon 97415.) Books are hard to come by in Uganda. Hardly anyone even has a Bible in the village.

Again, our goal for after the above needs are met is to have a proper house for Fr. Stephen on the property.

May God bless all who pray for us, donate, or tell others!

Martin Becktell, Director

EcoMercy International

ecomercy.org

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