Kings Kids Background and Vision

Robert Mponye

Founder and Director of:

• Director of Kings Kids Ministries International
• Life house Community Church – Mtyanna Uganda

Vision “Creating change in an aching community”

Trustees: Deo – Gracious

Samuel – legal

Co Leaders: Pastor Moses

Pastor Fred

Site Visit

School

o School has 359 children in attendance. 160 of these children pay $20 per semester

o School is government registered and recognised

o Wooden classroom soon to be replaced

o New brick built classrooms (8) being built by Lion of Judah

o 12 teachers

o Robert and Esther Mponye were primary school teachers themselves

Houses

o 4 houses for kings kids (one of these not yet with a roof). Two of these are inhabited with 107 children

o vision to build a total of 8 houses

o Bunk beds - currently 2 children per bed (i.e. 4 children to a double bunk)

o Daily diet - porridge, ugali and beans. No milk products due to lack of funds

Children

• Well dressed by Ugandan standards, school uniforms, day clothes
• Generally in good health although many with teeth problems. This could be due to lack of Milk products or calcium phosphate present in the water filtered water

Church on the same plot of land as the school (most of it owned by them)

• 500 adults and children attend Life House Community church
• Robert has oversight of 34 Pastors who look to him. They meet up twice a year all together. Robert sees individuals as an when needed

Financial support

• There are 6 supporters - 3 from the UK, 2 from Canada and one from USA

Development Range

• Land for Kids school, house and church owned by the ministry
• Play area for 350 kids not yet owned
• Farm 25acres (8 ½ hectares) owned and farmed. One permanent member of staff working the land. More brought in as required
• Esthers Salon – mens barbers
• Pharmacy – Small unit
• Internet café – 7 computer terminals, currently down due to bad connection. Lion of Judah to research best connection to get this up and running again
• Rent coming from a small Mechanic store
• Esther is a national singer and money from her albums come into support the ministry
• Water bole hole on site (hand pump) drilled to 100 feet. Water is good for washing but contaminated and therefore undrinkable. This does however save them going some distance to the local well and carrying the water back in Jerry cans
• Two water filters (impact nations type) with sand filter used for drinking water

Farm

This is currently a good source of growth in produce and finance. The 25 acre plot of land 20minutes outside Mtyanna is being extensively developed. Produce includes:

o 800 new coffee saplings (vision to produce 4 tons of coffee a year)

o Banana plantation for Motoke food

o Newly planted orange trees

o Mango trees

o Cassava plants

o Beans potatoes

At the moment the field is supplying one months supply if food per semester. There is a full time paid farm worker, Johnson, working 12 hours a day. He loves the work and studies agriculture. Robert has a vision of selling oranges and Mangoes through the local supermarket, when these crops come to maturity.

Future vision

• To be able to support and school 700 children (currently 359)
• Have 8 houses built and inhabited with kids
• Build a brick built church for 2000 people
• Increase the turnover of business of:
• • Salon to include women’s hair
  • Internet café
  • Tailors (there are 4 trained women ready to teach others but they need sewing machines and start up cost etc
  • Increase the farm turnover. A tractor is required to pull out all the old tree stumps then rent the tractor out to other farmers.
  • The pharmacy to include a medial clinic
  • Build and sell water filtration units