Bible Lessons

Unlike many ministries that have a central location, SNH staff travel to the children! Due to the varying levels of disability, this is the most effective way for SNH to reach the children.

But SNH values sharing Christ and teaching the Bible to the children we serve! Every time a staff member visits a child, he or she takes some time to share a lesson.

Sherinah recently visited Catherine and they had a sweet moment reading the Bible.

To see SNH children waiting for sponsors, view the SNH Facebook Album.

Happy New Year from SNH!

After a year of welcoming two new babies to SNH staff members (Sherinah & Moses welcomed Shadrach in February, and Hannah & Eric welcomed Mateo in July), we are back!

We also want to introduce a new member to the SNH team, Dana: Dana is a former veterinary technician who now owns her own pet sitting business. She is married with two daughters. Dana has been sponsoring children since she was a young teenager and has passed the love of sponsorship on to her oldest daughter who also sponsors a child. She is very excited to be joining our team! Dana will be helping us with the web side of things, and she also created a PayPal account for SNH! She will be sharing more about that in January.

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We also wanted to share some of the Christmas gifts that the children in SNH received in December 2017.

Juliet received bread and money for Christmas meal and a Christmas dress!

Paul, who was just recently sponsored, received 10 kgs of maize flour, 3kgs of beans, rice, sugar, bread and money for Christmas clothes and meals, thanks to extra help from his new sponsor!

Joshua received bread and money for Christmas meal and clothes. Joshua is still waiting for a sponsor.

Beautiful Harriet also received Christmas gifts from her sponsors.

Sisters Grace and Gloria, who are both sponsored, also received Christmas food and clothes.

And finally, Ikou and Ivan both received wheelchairs!

Written by Hannah Hinojosa

IDAW 2016

Last year, SNH was privileged to attending International Deaf Awareness Week (IDAW), thanks to the gifts of caring donors. SNH is hoping to send SNH assisted children who are deaf along with their caregivers to IDAW in the Lira municipality of northern Uganda.

In order to send the two children, a caretaker for each child, and two SNH staff members to guide the children and caretakers, a total of $300 US or 900,000 UGX is needed. This amount will cover their accommodations for the week.

To learn more about IDAW, click here. And to donate, please check out how to give via Western Union on the FAQ page.

About Hannah Hinojosa...Hannah is a long time Compassion sponsor (she was Sherinah's sponsor) and writes about her sponsorship journey at Because of Shamim. In addition to being a wife and mother, she is a part-time math professor and loves to read.

School Fundraiser!

It has been a while since we updated the blog, but I have been selling handcrafts (made by Sherinah) to support the SNH children!

We would like to help those SNH children who are unable to pay for their school supplies! We also have a few medical needs and miscellaneous needs (i.e. transportation for the SNH staff to check in on the kids, food for one of the children who was abandoned by her parents with her three siblings, and pig feed).

The goal is to raise $300, where $150 will go towards the school supplies for 15 children, $50 to medical needs, and the remaining $100 towards the miscellaneous needs.

If 30 people can donate $10 each, these needs will be funded! Or you could purchase a handcraft and support SNH as well! Donations can be sent via Western Union and the instructions are here. For further questions, email Sherinah at sherinahnewhope@gmail.com

About Hannah Hinojosa...Hannah is a long time Compassion sponsor (she was Sherinah's sponsor) and writes about her sponsorship journey at Because of Shamim. In addition to being a wife and mother, she is a part-time math professor and loves to read.

Christmas Party 2015

Thanks to all our donors, SNH raised all the money for the Christmas party! We wanted to share photos of the event with all our supporters. Look at the joy you brought to the faces of these kids and their families!

Thank you again for your support of SNH in 2015! We look forward to seeing how God leads SNH in 2016 and how SNH will be able to bless the families and kids in the ministry.

About Hannah Hinojosa...Hannah is a long time Compassion sponsor (she was Sherinah's sponsor) and writes about her sponsorship journey at Because of Shamim. In addition to being a wife and mother, she is a part-time math professor and loves to read.

Christmas Party Fundraising

The Christmas parties for SNH in 2013 and 2014 were such a big hit and such a wonderful blessing to the children and families of SNH. So we are raising money for our 3rd annual Christmas party!

SNH anticipates close to 200 children and their care givers to attend and desire to bless each family with a Christmas meal (complete with cake)! SNH also desires to give Christmas gifts of bars of soap and mosquito nets to the children enrolled in SNH. Hence the goal is to raise $600 US for the Christmas party!

Please read the letter from our Director Sherinah to learn more:

To whom it may concern.

My name is Nakiyemba Shamim, aka Sherinah. I work at Nakaseke based charity called Sherinah's New Hope for Children with Disability Ministry (SNH) that provides children with special needs the opportunity to have access to education, health care, and all form of social services through child sponsorship and general donation from concerned people around the world. Most of those children come from low income families therefore it's a passion to help the celebrated Christmas in special way...last year's fundraising for Christmas was tremendously successful we raised funds and we were able to feed over 100 children and their care givers. This year we expect to feed more children due to the fact, we enrolled a number of new children who don't have a sponsor yet to date.

We have embarked on on fundraising campaign to help us us raise enough funds to be able to help more than double the number of kids last year. We would be delighted if you can help SNH to achieve its goals by donating a monetary donation. This year our goal is to raise $600 in which the 550 will go towards Christmas party and this will include Christmas meal, Christmas cake, 2 bars of soap for each of enrolled child, a mosquito net, plus $5 cash to each of enrolled child...the $50 will go towards the construction of the community church and a center where our children gather for our center days.

We are well aware that it may some time be difficult to convince people to donate especially when Christmas is close, but be aware that there there are many others who find themselves in worse predicaments. SNH will be happy to accept any form of help.

Please consider to helping SNH kids to enjoy the coming Christmas.

Also feel free to learn more about our work we do.

From SNH programme Director and child advocate.
We wish you and your family a very safe merry Christmas!
Best wishes.
Sherinah

P.S. Below are photos of our church that is under construction and we are still looking for funds to rehabilitate it.

Donations can be made via Western Union (instructions can be found on the FAQ page) and please email sherinahnewhope@gmail.com or contact us out on Facebook with any questions.

About Hannah Hinojosa...Hannah is a long time Compassion sponsor (she was Sherinah's sponsor) and writes about her sponsorship journey at Because of Shamim. In addition to being a wife and mother, she is a part-time math professor and loves to read.