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Founded by Ssitenda Rashid ,mbazira joseph,Nanyonga Betty and pastor were Jackson,
Cymon Childcare Ministry was birthed through God’s Power Church International
Ministry a thriving, community-focused church planted in Kibuku District in Eastern
Uganda, in 2014.
The Cymon Story.
Back in 2003 , in a town called Kibuku in eastern Uganda where one of the founders was
born and raised , Ssitenda Rashid was confronted by a stark reality that he could not
ignore. As a young child growing in kibuku, he and his siblings were raised up in an area
best known for its violence and poverty. The grim reality was that over 70% of school going children risked dropping out of school.Coupled with a high mortality rate, the situation was indeed dire.
The residents of Kibuku have endured so much. Corrupt and oppressive rulers have waged ruthless wars against the people and, when they were done with their slaughter, nearly one hundred thousand were dead.
The war in eastern Uganda in the late eighties up to Mid- Nineties left behind a trail of
death, poverty disease and sickness. It was not only the war that wreaked havoc, the Aids
scourge severely aggravated the issue. Ssitenda vividly remembers an incident, when his
family went to visit an 80-year-old widow who had mothered seven children. As they
walked through the banana groves behind her small hut, she pointed out the graves of her
husband and six of her children. AIDS had killed them all. Her one surviving child, a
daughter, was dying of the same disease. Visiting this woman stirred Ssitenda to the core
of his being and became one of the defining moments of his life.
He
was reminded of James 1: 27, “Religion that God our Father accepts
as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in
their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”
Cymon
childcare ministry was birthed out of God’s power church
international ministry
as a result of this encounter.
Ssitenda
Rashid close and personal with cymon children
Ssitenda Rashid is the passionate and visionary leader of Cymon Childcare Ministry
Our Work
The Cymon Model is designed to provide vulnerable women and children in Africa with
holistic care and to impact communities in the process. The model involves physical
care, medical intervention including HIV/AIDS treatment, education - formal and
vocational, counseling and emotional well-being as well as moral and spiritual
discipleship.
Cymon childcare ministries is an all-inclusive, non-partisan organization registered as a
CBO (Community Based Organization) which helps the livelihoods of people in the
Kibuku District and other parts of Uganda. Cymon is very passionate about children.
Kibuku
district is characterized by widely dry area and while majority of
people in
Uganda (over 60%) rely on agriculture, the climate in Kibuku districts not favorable.
There are many families that are orphaned and some with insufficient funds to foster
proper education in the area, which lead to formation of the CymonModel designed to
provide vulnerable children in Africa with holistic care and to impact communities in the
process. The model involves physical care, medical intervention including HIV/AIDS
treatment, education - formal and vocational, counseling and emotional well-being as well as moral and spiritual discipleship of Cymon Childcare Ministries(CCM)
The main objective of Cymon is to promote education among disadvantaged homes
particularly orphaned children with the view of paying school fees for primary education
first,then secondary education and in future establish a technical institution to equip
youth in the area with more practical skills that could make the disadvantaged in the area self-reliant.
Cymon childcare ministry has a technical group, which has proposed a three prong
approach of primary education, secondary education and tertiary education to be handled
at once so that they reduce dependency of youth in the area. Currently Cymon is
partnering with schools and institutions with in kibuku district to bring hope to
marginalized communities in the district. Success is already being registered with many children who in the past would have had no chance of education being extended this
opportunity. This approach though has been met with the resounding challenge of
availability of financial resources. Whereas land could be obtained to establish an
institution or school, the money to train, hire and purchase equipment necessary remains
elusive.
Both the cymon and the African experience are demonstrated most effectively when you
become immersed in them. Since cymon first started, numerous individuals and
organizations in Uganda and around the world have visited Kibuku district to provide,
financial, scholastic and other help for the vulnerable children under cymon childcare ministry.
HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE AND CHANGE A LIFE
An Open Invitation we extend this request to those with farming, mechanical and other
practical skills, you are so welcome to contact us on how best we could make better use
of your skills to better improve services offered at Cymon. This invitation is also
extended to Artists, musicians, athletes, film-makers, photographers, social media gurus,
we need all the help we can get — not only to spread the word about Cymon but also to
help shape the raw talent of our young people.
For those who would like to reach out to people with the message of the gospel, we
invite you to join our ministry and discipleship teams at God’s Power Church
International Ministry. Whatever your gift or interest, we would love you to come and
see what’s happening on the ground.
Give and Receive
Through the giving of your time and resources, we believe that you will receive even
more than you give. When you leave Kibuku District, you will do so filled with love,
compassion and the conviction that you have made a difference in many people’s lives.
Your giving will put a smile on the needy children such as these Volunteer With cymon
For those who are able to come for at least a month and more, you can enroll as an
individual volunteer. We have an application based admissions process for individual
volunteers. It helps us better understand who you are and how best to place you. We take
into consideration our current needs, your interest, skills, work and missions experience.
Approved volunteers can begin fundraising, please contact us about advice on how to go about doing that.
Raise Support
Not everyone can travel to Africa, but you can help right where you are.
Help us raise support for the work of Cymon. Contact us and we are happy to supply you
with creative ideas and engaging fundraising tools that will empower you to make an
impact on lives in Africa.
You are invaluable to us. Thank you. Change a Story. Sponsor a Life. By God’s grace,
cymon is raising transformationel leaders, who will impact positively every sphere of
society, reforming Uganda and serving as a model for the rest of Africa.
When you partner with cymon through sponsorship, you agree to make a regular
contribution that enables cymonto rescue vulnerable children, and to support the loving
mothers who care for these children.
IF YOU ARE IN DENMARK, YOU MAY USE MOBILE PAY (PRIVATE ACCOUNT)
+45 91 15 26 21 the money is sent to them the same day
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP
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