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UCE to be featured on EWTN
Dana Scallon interview Drs. Ken and Kim Dernovsek for "Life and Family Africa - How Uganda exposed the 'safe sex' myth"
There are several ways/times to watch:
1. Go to AFRICA/ASIA programming -Times listed are based off of your computer's time
-At the appointed time click on the 'watch live' link
Sunday
08/16/2015
03:00 PM US Mountain Time Wednesday
08/19/2015
11:00 AM US Mountain Time Saturday
08/22
01:30 AM US Mountain Time -Times listed are based off of your computer's time
-At the appointed time click on the 'watch live' link Sunday
08/16/2015
05:30 PM US Mountain Time Wednesday
08/19/2015
04:00 AM US Mountain Time |
UCE Tanzania visits the Dodoma region
After over a year on the waiting list, Bahi District in Dodoma welcomed the UCE team in April. Twenty schools were reached and 2,044 students (84.5%) committed to chastity!
After one week of outreaches, Mr. Renatus Benges, the UCE Club Patron from Ikafara Secondary School, joined the UCE team in Dodoma with the purpose of teaching and encouraging other teachers about the importance of the UCE message and UCE Clubs. The UCE team was so blessed to have him with the team for several days. He shared his testimony of how UCE helped his school. He said, "This is the fourth year after UCE the club was introduced in Ifakara girls secondary school. From that time till today we have not received or having any case of students getting pregnant. Moreover in terms of discipline UCE has done so much in helping students to focus on the future life hence they don't misbehave."
One headmaster was so grateful to the UCE team. He encouraged his students by pointing to the UCE team saying that although the team is young they already have college degrees and good jobs. He said, "If you want to achieve your goals you should abstain and study hard. When the UCE team came here this morning, I thought they are just wasting our time and we were busy preparing for district executive officer visitation. I thought if I was the one to decide I could have hindered them to deliver their message to you. But because they were accompanied by Mr. Raymond, I kept quiet. Now I have realized if that happened, I would have lost a very unique message and a very rare chance to get it. Please, UCE I welcome you again and again to help my school." Read the full story here. |
Universal Chastity Education, Inc. (UCE) is an educational organization established in 2004 and determined to be a public charity, exempt from Federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Its promotes through education sexual abstinence until marriage and marital fidelity as healthy lifestyles free from sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS. UCE operates in rural Uganda. and launched in Burundi in 2007 and Tanzania in 2009 and in the USA in 2012. Visit the UCE website
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UCE Annual Report published
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UCE Kasese holds prayer conference, reaches nomadic minority
Twenty secondary schools in Uganda and 1,000 youth came together for prayer, sharing of experiences, testimonies, and sports
During the July 28th prayer conference, a Form 2 student from Mutanywana Senior Secondary School testified that she always had the worst grades in school. She said that she had thought that the only alternative to her situation was to leave school and stay with her boyfriend.
She says,"When the UCE Team started deliberating at our school, I thought they were wasting my time. However, when they proceeded with their talks something came into my mind telling me to first put my relationship aside and concentrate on my books. It took me time, contemplating on giving up my relationship, and then asking myself, can I abstain? Can I sincerely live without having sex? After a long time of meditation, I stood up and picked a chastity card and signed it. I was still full of doubt whether I would manage to leave my boyfriend and concentrate on my studies. Thereafter, I asked God to help me. I started reading my books and last term I was in the 5th position out of 100 students in form 2. This from being the very last in my class! I thank God and UCE for this, I therefore urge every person to first concentrate on their target goals. I am now strong, firm and hopeful that one day I shall become a lawyer, congratulations UCE. Everyone who knew me and my sexual behavior is wondering and asking me whether I am the same person or not, they could not believe I can live without having sex."
On July 19th, the Kasese team reached out to Muhokya Parents Secondary School. They report that "according to their culture Basongora must marry as early as 10 years old for both boys and girls. The boys must look after cattle and girls must remain home making "Muzigo" a milk product to sell. A girl child is considered a source of wealth to the family, as the dowry is paid in the form of cattle. 99.5% of the Basongora do not go to school."
You can read about the prayer conference and the outreach here.
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