by Peggy Karg
We started our Monday with a Grand Opening celebration in Nduba, complete with ribbon-cutting and “champagne”! Gilbert started Love with Actions in Bumbogo in 2018 and it remains the headquarters of this ministry. In 2022, a second center was added in the small village of Nduba. They originally rented a small building there and had a physical therapy and an occupational therapy room. They have been crowded and crunched almost from the beginning and have just now moved into a big beautiful house that has become their new therapy center. We were welcomed with festive, joyful singing by the moms of the disabled kids. We were privileged to enter each room and pray a blessing over that room and all the good that will take place over the next days and months to come. What a fun celebration!
On to Bumbogo next. We marveled at all the changes and progress over the last two years on Love With Actions Academy school and therapy center. They now have expanded into the new building we painted two years ago during its construction and it is vibrant and bustling with preschool students, primary first and second grades and PT and OT rooms. We were impressed with their brand new computer lab and the second graders demonstrating their keyboarding skills. There is now a full service kitchen and dining room to serve lunch every day. The preschoolers were the height of cuteness as they recited a clever welcome ditty for us as we visited. Next on the tour was the playground and the women’s sewing center, where fabric grocery bags and other items are made for sale and their livelihood. Lastly, we got to see the LWA farm animals. They have two milk cows, two calves and about 60 chickens. This provides about 30 liters of milk per day and about 45-50 eggs per day – all used to provide nutritious meals for the students in school and therapy.
God is definitely on the move in Bumbogo and Nduba!
A little aside – while we were viewing the cows, Gilbert asked if anyone knew how to milk a cow. My hand immediately went up and before I knew it, I was squirting milk into a bucket! I guess once a farm girl, always a farm girl!
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