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Muli mutya! That’s what Ugandans who
speak Luganda say to greet a group of
people. In this issue, we’ll find out about
the culture, struggles and hope found in
the East African country of Uganda.
Illustrations by Luke Flowers
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You’ve Gotta
Love Uganda!
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ABOUT THE
COVER
Check out two Compassion centers
in Uganda to see what kids do there!
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Love in Many Languages
See Bibles of kids around the world.
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Game
A Ugandan boy plays
trombone at his
Compassion center.
Journey through a day in the life of
a Ugandan child! PAGE 14
SUPPORTER RETENTION AND
ENGAGEMENT DIRECTOR
Stacey Baxter
Compassion Explorer Magazine is published three times per year by
Compassion International. © Compassion International 2016. All rights
reserved. Compassion and Compassion International are registered in the
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Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE. NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®.
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission. All
rights reserved worldwide. Another version used is the NIRV, the Holy Bible,
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All rights reserved throughout the world. Used by permission of Biblica.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Leanna Summers
MANAGING EDITOR
Willow Welter
PRINT PRODUCTION
Michelle Dana
WRITERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Leanna Summers, Willow Welter
EDITING AND PROOFREADING
Anna Gonzalez, Suellen Wenz
ART DIRECTOR
Mark Kyle
DESIGNER
Callie Wilburn
ILLUSTRATOR
Luke Flowers
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Chuck Bigger, Edwin Estioko, Tigist
Gizachew, Karen Jones, Jacintha
Phillip, Callie Wilburn
QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS?
Email us at compassionkids@
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Compassion International, Attn:
Compassion Explorer Magazine
Editor, 12290 Voyager Parkway,
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Liberty Christian students went
to school barefoot one Friday.
Students in Ohio get a taste of Ugandan childhood.
For seven days recently, elementary students at Liberty Christian
Academy experienced a little of what life is like in a Ugandan
village. Their principal, Mrs. Jones, and their teachers had ordered
the Step Into My Shoes® kit from Compassion, which includes fun
ideas for learning about life in poor areas.
“And this is love: that
we walk in obedience
to his commands.”
— 2 John 1:6
The 260 students, ages 3 through 12, created soccer balls out of
plastic bags like lots of kids in poverty do. The students went barefoot
one Friday to see what it’s like to live without the comfort and safety
of shoes. They walked a mile while carrying heavy jugs of water,
just like millions of children around the world who don’t have
running water at home. The students built tents to learn what
it might feel like to live in a tiny shelter with a family. And they
made colorful masks to learn about African culture.
“We learned about a little girl in Uganda,” says Addyson Cordell,
age 7, who enjoyed the Step Into My Shoes activities. “She rides
her bike two hours a day just to get water from a yucky lake where
animals drink. It’s called a watering hole, and her family had to boil it
to get rid of the bacteria, and there’s sometimes still bacteria in it.”
Addyson’s favorite part was joining her schoolmates to collect
secondhand shoes and donate them to a Christian charity that gives
them to children in Africa.
Addyson says it’s important to
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The kids carried jugs of water
while doing laps around their gym
until they’d walked for a mile.
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Let’s see what Ugandan children receive at their Compassion centers!
Right: At
a Compassion
center in the big city of
Kampala, sponsored kids
follow their teacher in dances
and songs about Jesus.
Below: These kids go to a
Compassion center in
the small village of
Bufumbo.
Children who live in this neighborhood in the city of Kampala go to a Compassion center
nearby. Their neighborhood has no safe places to play. Most homes in the area are close
together and don’t have yards. So some kids play near dangerous ditches that fill with
water and trash when it rains.
When the kids go to their Compassion
center, they get the chance to play in a
clean, safe area. The church that runs
the center has lots of fun games for the
children.
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Kids at the Kampala center also eat yummy
food, learn songs about Jesus and play
musical instruments in a band. The band is
special because the children’s families can’t
afford their own instruments.
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FILLED UP
Illustrations by Luke Flowers
These sisters live in a village
called Lira. They get water for
bathing and cooking from this
hole. It is by the hut where they live
with their grandma. They can safely
drink the water if they boil it to
kill germs first. Since one sister
became sponsored, Compassion
is working to help the girls
get clean water.
UGANDA
At a Compassion center in Lira, sponsored children eat
nutritious food and drink clean water. This cook is making
porridge for the children’s mid-morning snack. After that,
she’ll prepare their lunch.
CAPITAL CITY
LANGUAGES
CURRENCY
RELIGIONS
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English, Luganda
& other African
languages
Shilling
Christianity 83.9%,
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“Speak up for those who cannot speak for
themselves, for the rights of all who are
destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend
the rights of the poor and needy.”
Speaking up for people means using your
words to help them. Next time you’re at school,
church or the playground, be aware of when you
should speak up for someone. If you see someone
pushing or hitting another child, tell an adult. If you
hear a classmate teasing someone on the playground,
tell the bully why that’s wrong and then say kind words to the
person being teased.
The tricky part is knowing when to speak up, and that comes with
wisdom. You can gain wisdom by reading the Bible, listening to
teachers and parents, studying hard and praying.
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n a separate sheet of
paper, list some more
ways you can speak
up for people you
know or might meet
someday.
A sk a parent how
your family can help
people in poverty.
Kampala
Muslim 12.1%,
other 3.1%
God has given us a powerful way
to help others, be bold and show
kindness. In Proverbs 31:8-9 we
learn that it’s important to stand
up for others:
The center has classes to teach sponsored kids skills for
future jobs. While these children learn to bake, others
study computers, sewing and mechanics. Tutors at the
center also teach children about the Bible.
DEAR JESUS,
I’m thankful that You
gave me a voice to
speak up for others. Please give
me wisdom to know when to
stay silent and when to use my
words to defend someone from
harm or show kindness. Please
give me ideas for what to say
and do to help the kids I meet
and others in need.
IN YOUR NAME, AMEN.
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Adult help needed.
These are some of the tasty foods that sponsored children in Uganda eat.
Many families can’t afford meat, so they eat lots of fruits and vegetables.
MATOOKE WITH PEANUT SAUCE
MATOOKE
[Mah-TOOK-eh]
DIRECTIONS
INGREDIENTS
6-8 plantains,
2 c. water
peeled and chopped
salt to taste
Place the water and plantains in a pot and simmer until
tender for about 25 minutes. Drain and then mash. Add
water if needed to reach desired consistency.
VEGETABLE SAMOSAS
[sah-MO-sahs] Makes about 12 samosas.
INGREDIENTS
3 tbsp. vegetable oil
¼ c. onion, chopped
1 tsp. gingerroot,
finely chopped
¼ c. frozen peas, thawed
2 c. potatoes, peeled, boiled until
soft and mashed into large lumps
½ tsp. dry mustard
1 tbsp. coriander
1 tsp. ground cumin
salt to taste
1 package frozen phyllo
pastry dough, thawed
6 tbsp. melted butter
DIRECTIONS
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Preheat oven to 400°F. Heat the oil in a pan over medium-high
heat and sauté the onion until soft. Add the ginger and cook 2
more minutes. Stir in the peas and potatoes. Add the mustard,
coriander, cumin and salt. Cook for 2 minutes. Set aside.
2
Unroll the pastry dough and cover with a damp kitchen towel to
keep it from drying out. Brush 1 pastry sheet with melted butter. Fold
the sheet in half and brush with more butter. Fold in half one more time
and brush with butter again. Place 1 tbsp. of the cooked filling on one
end of the pastry sheet, leaving a 1-inch border around the sides.
PEANUT SAUCE
INGREDIENTS
1 tomato
DIRECTIONS
1
½ onion, peeled
2 c. water
Plantains are part of the
banana family. Here a
sponsored girl in Uganda
peels a banana.
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1 c. peanut butter
2
Stir in the peanut butter and spices.
Let the mixture simmer, stirring
continuously until it thickens.
3
Pour over the prepared matooke.
½ tsp. paprika
salt and pepper to taste
Chop the tomato and onion. Add them
with the water to a saucepan over
medium-high heat and bring to a boil.
3
Fold the right corner over the filling diagonally and squeeze edges
together to form a tightly sealed triangle. Brush the triangle with more
butter and place on a baking sheet. Cover while making more samosas.
Bake for 30 minutes or until golden brown.
Kids line up at a Compassion
center in Uganda to enjoy a
snack of vegetable samosas
and cups of porridge.
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CHECK IT OUT
MARCH TO YOUR OWN BEAT
In many African countries where sponsored children live, musicians
play a traditional drum called a djembe [JEM-bay]. Here’s how to
make one you can play!
2a
SUPPLIES
2 large paper cups
masking tape
1 c. each flour
and water, mixed
20-30 newspaper strips
DIRECTIONS
2b
2c
Kids whose families can’t afford to buy
checkerboards get creative and make
their own. Learn how you can too!
SUPPLIES
1 large recycled
cereal or other box
1” hole punch (optional)
craft paint
2d
1 square-foot piece of
sturdy cardboard
ruler
nontoxic, water-based
paints or markers
nontoxic, waterbased paint
1 balloon
1 rubber band
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Cut out the bottom of each cup. Place one cup
upside down on table. Place other cup right side up
on top of the other cup. Tape the two cups together.
2
Dip some paper strips into the water-and-flour
mixture and wrap the strips around the cups. Put
several layers of wet paper strips around the top rim
to make it stronger. Let it all dry.
3
Use paint to decorate your drum in a fun African design.
Once the paint has dried, cut open one side of the
balloon and stretch it over the top of the cup. Use a
rubber band to secure it to the
lid if needed. You can also
wrap twine or string
around the top of
your drum to
decorate.
Traditional
djembes are
carved from a
single log of
hardwood.
DIRECTIONS
Choose two colors for your checker pieces and cut out (or
punch out) 12 (1-inch) circles in one color and 12 (1-inch) circles
in another color from your recycled boxes. You can also paint your
pieces in two different colors once you’ve cut them out.
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Children in Uganda
play with a homemade
checkerboard using
plastic bottle caps
as checkers.
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Divide your board into 64 (1½-inch) squares with alternating colors.
Use your ruler to mark 1½ inches across your cardboard piece on every
edge. Then connect the lines, using your ruler to make a straight line.
Use paint or markers to choose two colors for your checkerboard or
you can leave half of the squares the color of the cardboard. Paint
the checkerboard, making sure to alternate each color so that no two
squares side by side are the same color.
Boys in Burkina Faso with a djembe
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At
least 2,000
languages
are spoken in
Africa.
The complete Bible has
been translated into 554
languages! Bible translators
still have a lot of work to
do though. There are about
7,000 languages spoken
around the world. Happily,
Compassion gives sponsored
kids Bibles in their languages.
Check out some Bibles of sponsored
children around the world.
UGANDA
In Uganda, most
kids read Bibles
in their languages
of Luganda and
English.
TOGO
A girl in Togo
carries La Bible Pour
Enfants. It is French
for The Bible for
Children.
BOLIVIA
PHILIPPINES
Christopher is a sponsored boy in the Philippines.
He holds a Bible printed in the Filipino language.
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Santa Biblia means
Holy Bible in Spanish.
It is the most common
language spoken in this
sponsored boy’s
country of
Bolivia.
EL SALVADOR
The boy pictured above and the girl pictured at right
live in El Salvador. In their country, most of the Bibles
that kids study at their Compassion centers are
printed in Spanish.
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