The construction of the demo-center building is progressing well; the roof is in place, windows and doors have been installed. When completed, the 4,393.83 sq ft building will serve as EATBETA’s headquarters (located in Nakaseke district, Uganda) and it will accommodate up to 18 trainers and volunteers during the summer training sessions. The training sessions are particularly designed to help rural farmers learn more efficient and profitable farming (crop and livestock) techniques, and also to enable rural farmers and youth to acquire practical and valuable skills such as farm-harvest processing, welding, beekeeping, carpentry, sewing, weaving, pottery, bricklaying, and other complementary skills.

The demo-center building construction is at the BEAM, despite the setbacks that have been mostly a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns. Our team, on the ground, is working tirelessly to have EATBETA’s Demo-Center fully operational by Summer 2022. While the construction is progressing, the land next to the demo-center building is being prepared to set up a demo farm and the first crop that is being planted is corn/maize. Corn is both a major food and cash crop in Uganda, and therefore, our demo farm will be used to showcase the best practices for effectively growing, harvesting, and processing corn among other traditional food crops such as beans, millet, bananas, cassava, potatoes, etc.

The recently completed EATBETA water well, located at Katikara village, Hoima district in Uganda, was dedicated in honor of Dr. David & Cindy Dykes. Dr. Dykes has been the pastor of Green Acres Church in Tyler, Texas since March of 1991. In the 66-year history of Green Acres, Dr. Dykes is the longest-serving pastor and the first to retire. Green Acres has over 17,000 members and is known for its mission involvement locally and around the world. The work and dedication of Dr. David & Cindy Dykes to serving the Lord’s people at Green Acres Church, in Texas and beyond, has been unwa-vering and we are greatly humbled to have the Katikara village water well dedicated in their honor. The water well was funded by Judge Sam Griffith (Tyler, Texas).

Despite the COVID-19 lockdown which hampered most of EATBETA’s activities, including the annual summer mission, five water wells were completed in 2020. The team at EATBETA and the water well beneficiaries are sincerely grateful to each of the donors for the generous financial contributions which enabled the construction of the water wells at the following villages in Uganda: Kyandangi, Kakinga, Kyetume, Lugono, and Kibasi. The water wells are now providing clean water to over 1,250 households in these five villages – a milestone in EATBETA’s journey to reach Uganda with the Gospel of Christ…

When EATBETA Summer 2020 Mission was canceled due the COVID-19 pandemic, the team in Uganda did not want to see a whole summer wasted without doing anything. So, after the Uganda government relaxed the lockdown, our team quickly embarked on a plan to conduct seminars among rural farmers. In August, a total of 50 rural farmers at Kibasi village—Kabarole district, participated in the seminar conducted there by our local team. In September 2020, a total of 60 rural farmers at Bendegere village—Nakaseke district, participated in the seminar conducted there by our local team…

In 2018, when EATBETA perceived the idea of facilitating the construction of water wells, the goal was to provide clean and disease-free water to Ugandan rural areas where water shortage is a serious problem. Little did we know that in 2020, with the outbreak of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic, clean water would be even more urgently needed. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), keeping hands clean is especially important to help prevent the coronavirus from spreading. Hands should be thoroughly washed and rinsed with clean running water. Read to find more about what EATBETA is doing in response

This newsletter features exciting news and updates from EATBETA. We highlight the introduction of modern water wells to Ugandan rural areas and how an EATBETA seed donation has gotten cucumbers in a rural village. There are other articles such as EATBETA being featured at MissionBox, a coop being launched in a rural village, an update about EATBETA’s Summer 2020 Mission, and a campaign about EATBETA’s demo-center project.

Since the beginning of 2019, EATBETA has completed four hand-dug water wells at four villages in Uganda: Kiteezi village in the central, Okaliba village in the north, and Butimbwa and Naibowa villages in eastern Uganda. A fifth water well is under construction at Zirobwe village in the central region.

The year 2019 commenced very well for the rural community of Butimbwa village, Luuka district in Eastern Uganda, which now has access to clean water since a hand-dug water well was completed on January 2, 2019. The villagers mobilized themselves and dug a sixty-foot water well. Then EATBETA, through a generous donor, provided funding for purchasing construction materials and a water pump

A team of four volunteers (Dr. Julius Sonko, Mr. Rhyne Cureton, Mr. Kirk Harry, and Ms. Martha Harry) traveled to Uganda to participate, as trainers, in EATBETA’s third annual summer mission. The mission, which took place from July 29 to August 9, 2019, was successfully accomplished; key highlights of the summer mission’s accomplishments are featured in the…