Our History

 

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Our Story

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Founded by Ssitenda Rashid, Mbazira Joseph, Nanyonga Betty and Pastor Weere Jackson, Cymon Childcare Ministry was born through God's Power Church International Ministry, a thriving, community-focused church planted in Kibuku District in Eastern Uganda in 2014.

The Cymon Story.
Back in 2003, in a town called Kibuku in Eastern Uganda, where one of the founders was born and raised, Ssitenda Rashid was faced with a harsh reality that he could not ignore. As a young child growing up in Kibuku, he and his siblings grew up in an area best known for its violence and poverty. The harsh reality was that over 70% of school children were at risk of dropping out of school. Combined with a high mortality rate, the situation was dire indeed.

The people of Kibuku have endured so much. Corrupt and oppressive rulers have waged merciless wars against the people, and by the time they were done slaughtering them, nearly a hundred thousand had died.

The war in eastern Uganda in the late eighties and mid-nineties left a trail of death, poverty, disease and suffering. It was not just the war that was ravaging, the scourge of AIDS was seriously exacerbating the problem. Rashid vividly remembers an incident when his family visited an 80-year-old widow who had been the mother of seven children. As they walked through the banana groves behind her small hut, she pointed to the graves of her husband and six of her children. AIDS had killed them all. Her only surviving child, a daughter, was dying of the same disease. The visit to this woman touched Ssitenda to the core of his being and became one of the defining moments of his life.

He was reminded of James 1:27: "The form of worship that God our Father accepts as pure and undefiled is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world."

Cymon Childcare Ministry was born out of the power of God, the international ministry of the church, as a result of this meeting.

Rashid up close and personal with Cymon Children
Rashid is the passionate and visionary leader of Cymon Childcare Ministry. After 2016, he became part of the Danish organization with the main responsible leader Jan Lund Nissen, where we work to get more sponsors and support for Children in Kibuku. Rashid is the middleman to pass on sponsors' cash to sponsored children, and is looking for trusted contacts in Kibuku who pass on sponsorships, so that everything goes directly to the children without administration costs. Everything is done voluntarily, no salary costs.

Our Work
The Cymon Model is designed to provide holistic care to vulnerable women and children in Africa and to impact communities in the process. The model involves physical care, medical intervention including HIV/AIDS treatment, education - formal and vocational, counseling and emotional well-being, and moral and spiritual discipleship.

Cymon Childcare Ministry is an all-inclusive, non-partisan organization registered as a CBO (Community Based Organization) that helps secure the livelihoods of people in Kibuku District and other parts of Uganda. Cymon is very passionate about children.

Kibuku District is characterized by a very dry area, and although the majority of the population of Uganda (over 60%) depends on agriculture, the climate in Kibuku District is not conducive. There are many families who are orphans and some have insufficient means to promote proper education in the area, which has led to the formation of the Cymon Model, which is designed to provide holistic care to vulnerable children in Africa while impacting communities. The model involves physical care, medical intervention including HIV/AIDS treatment, education - formal and vocational, counselling and emotional well-being as well as moral and spiritual discipleship by Cymon Childcare Ministries (CCM).

The main objective of Cymon is to promote education among underprivileged homes, especially orphans, with a view to paying school fees for first primary education and then secondary education and in the future establishing a technical institution to equip youth in the area with more practical skills that can make the underprivileged in the area self-reliant.

Cymon Childcare Ministry has a technical team that has proposed a three-pronged approach of primary education, secondary education and higher education to be tackled at once to reduce dependency on youth in the area. Currently, Cymon is working with schools and institutions in Kibuku district to bring hope to marginalized communities in the district. Success has already been recorded in many children who previously would not have had any chance of education and who have been given this opportunity. However, this approach has been met with the major challenge of availability of financial resources. While land could be acquired to establish an institution or school, the money to educate, rent and buythe necessary equipment still elusive.

Both Cymon and the African experience are most effectively demonstrated when immersed in them. Since Cymon first started, numerous individuals and organizations in Uganda and around the world have visited Kibuku District to provide financial, academic and other assistance to vulnerable children.

Cymon Childcare Ministry.

HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE AND CHANGE A LIFE
An open invitation - we are extending this request to those with agricultural, mechanical and other practical skills. You are most welcome to contact us to find out how we can best utilize your skills to better enhance the services offered at Cymon. This invitation also goes out to artists, musicians, athletes, filmmakers, photographers, social media gurus. We need all the help we can get - not only to spread the word about Cymon, but also to help shape the raw talent of our youth.

For those who would like to reach out to people with the gospel message, we invite you to join our service and discipleship teams at God's Power Church International Ministry. Whatever your gift or interest, we would love for you to come and see what is happening on the ground.

Give and Receive
By giving of your time and resources, we believe that you will receive even more than you give. When you leave Kibuku District, you will leave filled with love, compassion, and the conviction that you have made a difference in the lives of many people.

Your donation will bring a smile to the faces of children in need like these. Volunteer with Cymon. For those who are able to come for at least a month or more, you can sign up as an individual volunteer. We have an application-based admissions process for individual volunteers. This helps us better understand who you are and how best to place you. We take into account our current needs, your interests, skills, work, and mission experience. Approved volunteers can start fundraising. Please contact us for advice on how to do so.

Raise support
Not everyone can travel to Africa, but you can help right where you are.

Help us raise support for Cymon’s work. Contact us and we will be happy to provide you with creative ideas and engaging fundraising tools that will allow you to make a difference to lives in Africa.

You are invaluable to us. Thank you. Change a story. Sponsor a life. By the grace of God, Cymon is raising transformative leaders who will have a positive impact on all areas of society, reform Uganda and serve as a model for the rest of Africa.

When you partner with Cymon through sponsorship, you agree to make a regular contribution that enables Cymonto to save vulnerable children and to support the loving mothers who care for these children.

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