FUTURE PAUL DEVLIN ACADEMY
Geme – Uganda
August 7, 2007 in Uganda,
(August 6 in the USA) marked a  memorable day for OTA. The long waited for dream came to pass as we broke ground for the Paul Devlin Academy in Geme – 7 miles from Fort Portal town, Western Uganda.

I was like a little girl all excited as we broke ground. I could not stop praising God. Fields of Life team led by Kennedy (FOL Uganda Manager) and John the construction man started the work real fast.

On May 10, 2007 Outreach To Africa in partnership with Fields of Life Ministry, the Jordan Property Group and our supporters
came together at the Montage Resort, Laguna Hills to fundraise for this school. The dream was fulfilled when Nick Jordan answered the call to fundraise for 5 schools to be built in Uganda. 2 have already been built and ours is the third one – 2 more to go Nick! Thank you Nick.

Our sincere thanks go to Luanne of the Jordan Group Property and the volunteer committee led by Nick Jordan who all worked tirelessly to put the event together. We could not also do it without you who attended and gave at the fundraising event.

1ST Day of construction
Foundation was started on the very first day

It has not been an easy task because the land is full of slate/rock. The foundation must be very strong due to earthquakes in the Fort Portal region.

The building of the school in this area has brought other projects which were badly needed. The community is very excited at the various services we have brought to them.  Projects include: a Mobile Clinic, sports outreach, a church, and farming.

We have created jobs for the community. While the men are building, the ladies are digging gardens and planting crops.

A garden of beans

2 Soccer teams train at our Academy’s rough play ground. We blessed them with uniforms and soccer balls.

Church is started under a tree at the building site.

A Mobile Clinic has also been started. Every Wednesday a team of volunteers which includes a medical team, a counselor and an evangelist go to help out. There is HIV counseling and testing as well. More than 150 patients come to the clinic. Several of them are very poor and cannot afford medical treatment. We too cannot afford giving them free medicines – we need a miracle. We are doing the best we can with the little that we have.

Outreach To Africa is also honored to have their first school named after the late Paul Devlin. Thanks to the Devlin family.