Three New Gardens, Three New Beginnings
This week was a milestone for our Cultivating Change with Kitchen Gardens program in Kamuli, Uganda.
On Monday, our team, alongside family members and neighbors, built and planted three new raised-bed gardens for grandmothers Jennifer, Betty, and Mirabu. Each of these remarkable women is raising grandchildren who have been orphaned or abandoned
Six Months of Progress
As we enter the second half of 2026, we want to pause for a moment to celebrate what your compassion and generosity have already made possible.
Every number below represents a life changed. A child with new opportunities. A young mother with renewed hope. A family taking steps toward self-sufficiency.
None of this happened by chance.
It happened because people like you chose to care.
From Plan to Harvest in 76 Days!
I wish you could see Joyce's garden in person.
Three months ago, it was just a plan. Today, it is feeding her grandchildren.
In just 76 days, they harvested their first crops of amaranth, collard greens, and onions. Now the garden is full, with vegetables growing in raised beds and containers across her compound.
And here is what changed everything.
Growing for the Future
It has been an exciting week as Joyce's kitchen garden has started to come to life. Joyce is raising five grandchildren on her own. When our team met her two years ago, it was clear the family needed support.
Joyce has ongoing health challenges and a back injury, and can no longer work in the fields. In the past, she grew and sold food to support the family.
We initially provided emergency food relief, but we knew the family needed something more sustainable.
How Do You Choose?
There is no doubt about it, each day in Uganda our team members are faced with children who have very challenging circumstances. Sickness, disability, malnourished, no shelter, barely clothed.
Many of these stories you've seen in our weekly emails, and you've helped make an incredible difference!
It can be easy to feel overwhelmed and helpless. In the remote villages where we work in Uganda, CLP is usually the only organization providing help to the most needy.
Smiles for Miles!
Mwase, Shamilu, and Mbwali were absolutely overcome with excitement and gratitude! This is the difference you make!
Through our Bridge to Success projects with our partner Donorsee, we posted a project to help get new clothes and hygiene supplies for the children.
Determined to Succeed!
Nothing makes me more excited than sharing with you the success of the children you've helped send to school!
As children in the US have started a new school year over the past few weeks, our students in Uganda have just finished their second term, and their reports are in, and they are all doing well- thanks to you!
Send Up the Fireworks!
This week, we were officially recognized as a Community-Based Organization in Kamuli District, Uganda! This is a big deal for our team, acknowledging all their efforts and the work they have done for the past nine years!
As our outreach and success in the Kamuli town and the surrounding villages has grown over the years, the local council members (politicians) approached us and we were invited to formally register CLP as a Community-Based Organization (CBO). Our team was thrilled to have their hard work and progress seen as making a real difference for the most vulnerable.
They’ll Light Up Your Day!
Pure joy! That's what you see on Tikah's and little Musa's faces when Hilda and Aminsi delivered food and clothes to them this week! Baby Sarah was a little unsure .
Tikah is a young mother who has been struggling to provide for Musa and baby Sarah since being abandoned by the children's father. They were down to eating one small meal a day when our team put in the request for help. We posted the project on our crowdfunding site, Donorsee.