Patrick in The News

Here are a couple news stories about Patrick. His surgery is scheduled for tomorrow (05/15). We would appreciate your prayers for tomorrow.
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/5157479/
http://orange.mync.com/site/Orange/news/story/34603/unc-teams-with-local-family-to-help-heal-ugandan-teens-heart/

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Patrick Kahuma Arrives in the US

Patrick (18) was orphaned as a young child. He grew up in the village of Kaihura in Western Uganda. In 2007, he was diagnosed with a congenital heart condition. Two years later, he arrives at Raleigh/Durham International Airport in anticipation of corrective surgery.
Cardiologists and Surgeons from UNC Chapel Hill, in collaboration with physicians from DC [...]

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Uganda Team Update

Today was Community Day and it was awesome!
Over 800 people came! Our team bought every soda in Kaihura and another place and were able to give away 796 cans of soda in all. A good portion of the time, our team had joyful
tears in their eyes, because it was so overwhelming! After the [...]

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Uganda Team Update

We’ve had another great day!. We visited the community of Koreng
and distributed 150 blankest to cover 300 children who have never
owned blankets before. This is a result of the Embrace Uganda
fundraising in the last few months. A truly amazing experience
for us and the kids on the team. We also got to [...]

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Uganda Team Update

Good news! Everyone is healthy and doing great! Our Advance Team is presently staying in Ntinda, a suburb of Kampala. Today, they visited an orphanage of 84 children. The bonding that took place with the children and our team’s children was simply amazing and remarkable!
Here are a couple of quotes [...]

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