This is part 2 of Hannington's report based on his visit to St. Augustine Community Love (SACL) from 4th to 11th January 2012.

Mr. Ocaki Samuel is one of three co-founders of SACL and is currently Vice Chairman of its Board of Directors.

MEETING WITH OCHAKI SAMUEL (ORDINARY MEMBER IN PROJECTS) IN ST AUGUSTINE COMMUNITY LOVE PROJECT, LOVE PROGRAMME

On the 7th January 2012 I met with Ochaki Samuel who is an ordinary member of SACL at his home to talk about a few things concerning st Augustine community love project.

I must say I had a great time with him, because he was so warm and jolly. He gave me a brief history of SACL.

He told me that initially there had been a programme that had been designed to do almost the same kind of work like SACL before and it was by the name of st Joseph foundation of whish Joshua Anyarwachi him self was beneficiary. It used to operate in 1990's but because of un- foreseen circumstance to be precise so St. Joseph foundation closed down.

As time went on when hope of having something like St. Joseph foundation was fading, Mr. Ochaki together with Chwinyari Lawrence now the chairman of the board and Joshua sat down to work out ways on how they could start up anew thing for the community that would help like St. Joseph foundation used to do, hence the birth of St. Augustine's community love project (SACL) programme in 2004.

The main objectives of starting (SACL)

Mr. Ochaki Samuel says the main agenda for starting up St Augustine community love programme (SACL) were mainly because of the points started below.

To provide safe water for home consumption

To help the disadvantaged children go to school in other wards to provide education for disadvantaged.

To improve on malnutrition as many kids in the community were malnourished.

To improve on the food security in the community because of the variance in the weather of the area.

To provide modified seeds for example Irish potatoes, soya beans, beans, and seedlings for planting trees for example Eucalyptus.

To improve on the housing in the community

To give psychosocial support to the orphans.

SACL had to start up some income generating activities as pointed out below.

• SACL started up a goat keeping project.
• They brought some land so that they could do some commercial farming.

They thought it good to keep goats, because they are easy to look after. Each time the goat gives birth the off springs would be distributed to members of (SACL) in the community who would in turn give one off spring back to the SACL.

They also bought some land for doing commercial farming so as to get some income that would be used to buy scholastic materials plus pay school fees for the disadvantaged.

Some Achievements made by SACL so far;

• With some help from SACL's friends and partners, three water sources have been built.
• 18 households got improved seeds for Irish potatoes and when they are planted they get some yields from them.
• Some 28 families have benefited from the goat's project hence improving on the incomes of the households.
• 1000 trees of Eucalyptus were planted later on the timber got from the Eucalyptus trees some is sold to raise income in the community and also send disadvantaged children to school and also the remainder is used for firewood or to make better roofs for the grass thatched houses most of the people in the communities live in.
• SACL is supporting one child to get driving lessons in a driving school.
• About 30 children are being supported in primary schools in Nebbi district.
• SACL is also supporting14 children in secondary schools in Nebbi district

Mr. Ochaki also noted some key challenges SACL is facing

• High expectations from the community yet SACL's resources are limited
• Over dependence on the SACL is also a problem
• Transport is also a problem since many of these communities are far from each other; it's in most cases costly to reach out to them.
• Funding is still very low as this limits the smoothing running of the programmes.
• HIV/AIDS is also still rampant in these communities hence increase in orphans.
• For the infected people in the community there is lack of ARVS, which shortens the life of the infected people.
• Lack of an office where to base SACL's working materials for example paper work, computers and many others.

These are some of the key challenges that SACL is facing as told by Mr. Ochaki Samuel.

Mr. Ochaki Samuel as an advisor and ordinary member on the board of SACL added that he had plans of doing some of the following things below.

• Write a concept paper for SACL which would give a good picture of what takes place in SACL plus showing where the funds come from and where they are going.
• Some of the members who were with SACL have left due to some other responsibilities as most of them where missionary workers hence designated to work in other areas as told by their supervisors in missionary organizations.
• Apparently they plan on constitionalizing the organization, so as to lay clearly down the laws and rules that will govern (SACL).

Concerning the Board Elected;

The board was elected and after every two years elections take place.

The electorate;

The electorates that are people who elect the board are members of SACL.

Qualifications of some one to be elected as a board member;
Some one to be qualified as a board member he or she must be hard working and devoted.