The church is with the people everyday, and has the potential to stir community development. For the last nine months the Kitega Centre has been working with six new churches in different communities, envisioning and equipping the local church to embrace integral mission. To many in the community, church is
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The last few weeks have been full of learning. The Kitega Centre is expanding VICOBA to six new communities. The new communities are all Kitega Centre partners in the church and community mobilization process. What does VICOBA mean: The VICOBA facilitators have been in all the six communities equipping community
September 2017 -Update
The last few months have been filled with activity at the Kitega Centre. The children continue to register remarkable progress. Sign language: It is almost a year since we started offering professional sign language education to the deaf students. Shamin, Robert, Brian are doing well and can now communicate using
Local communities making it Happen – Tusisimuke
Kitega community centre Tusisimuke (also know as Umoja) focuses on empowering and equipping the local church to address the needs in its community. This year the Kitega Centre has partnered with six new churches. The churches have been envisioned and equipped to address several needs in the community. We are
VICOBA Camp
Members of Community Resource Banking Initiative (COREB) from 15 communities gathered at the Kitega Centre for the annual VICOBA camp 2017. The theme for this year was ” Faithful Stewardship” Community Resource Banking empowers and equips individuals to achieve their full potential starting with the resources around them. The annual
Project porridge
Katugulu C/U primary school was set up by members of Katungulu village to provide education for their children. Katungulu didnt have any affordable primary school, the children had to walk long distances to school. The community then worked together with the local church leadership to start up a school
Tusisimuke – Church and Community Mobilisation
Kitega Community Centre’s Tusisimuke (the Church and Community Mobilisation for Holistic Development programme), was launched in six communities in March 2017. Following the Church envisioning, local disciples were equiped with skills to facilitate Holistic development in their local churches. The six churches have now started their local church projects, it
Emma Eastlick – 2017
Choosing the Kitega Community Centre as the site to conclude my four years studying Community Health Education at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is the best decision I have ever made. Though my purpose was to teach others about health in the community, I was the one who learned the
Church and Community Mobilisation for Holistic Development
Serving the poor also worship. The Church and Community Mobilisation for Holistic Development process (Umoja) helps the Kitega Community Centre reach out to the wider community. The Kitega – Centre envisions and equips the local church to meet the needs of its community, and this facilitates Holistic mission. CCMHD (Umoja)
The year ahead!
The 2016 Kitega Community Centre Annual Report was released February 17th on our website, detailing the centre’s program advancements and accomplishments over the year 2016. The Centre is coming closer to attaining their five year strategic plan goals (2013-2017). Notably, the centre hosted 54 children with disabilities and 40 disadvantaged