Well, in all honesty, a bunch of crazy and a whole lot of God and many, many supporters!
For right now though, let us just focus on the financial part for a moment, since I am sure a lot of you are wondering:
Where does all the money go?
Right here:
Preparations: This includes our passports, immunizations and
malaria preventative for all four of us, and a small
allowance for fund raising, i.e. postage, fliers ...) $ 3,900
Travel costs: This includes our airline tickets, baggage fees,
entry visas, medical insurance, Lodging, food,
in country transportation and misc expenses $ 9,890
For a grand total of: $ 13,790
WOW, now that the cat is out of the bag ... let's talk about the variations and what would happen with any left over money.
First of all, some expenses are tentatively. As TAM is a very Young ministry and we are the first team from our church going to help with TAM in Uganda, there simply is no detailed protocol or handbook available to us.
Our immunization and malaria cost are variable and depend on our insurance and deductibles. Any of you having to ever deal with their insurance, know this may take a while before we will get clear answers. In the meantime we need to cover this to the full price. Airline tickets might vary a bit as well. right now we can get them for about $ 1,600/person but in a month or two they can be as high as $ 2,500/person. Yikes!!! So, we really need to get them as soon as funding gets there!
Another flexible amount is baggage fees, transportation and lodging. That all depends on how much donated supplies we can gather to take with us and if we are able to make all the trips planned while in Uganda. A 1/4 gallon of gas is currently costs about $ 1.60 so that's about $ 6.80/gallon, which explains why it is so costly to travel in Uganda. Oh, and you usually have to hire a driver as well!
Currently we have about $ 4,500 from our own money and roughly $ 550 in donations. That leaves us with $ 8,740 to be raised by the end of the month.
Why by the end of the month, you wonder? Well, quite frankly we really need to book our flights in order to get a good price on them. January, the time we are meant to be there, is right in the short dry season Uganda has and therefore the best time to go. TAM has recommended avoiding the rain season, as inner country travel might become impossible. TAM has to plan for our accommodations, arrangements have to be made with the airlines for extra freight, in country meetings scheduled, leave turned in and so forth.
If we can not reach the majority of the funding by end of November we will have to push our departure back until we reach funding and TAM can put us in.
Should we exceed needed funding, all proceeds will be given directly to TAM to by chairs and tables for the kindergarten.
All that said, what we really need is your support in praying for us! We would love for you to partner with us in praying for us.
All else will happen in his time and to his will, as is always better than ours!
Much love,
Marion
For right now though, let us just focus on the financial part for a moment, since I am sure a lot of you are wondering:
Where does all the money go?
Right here:
Preparations: This includes our passports, immunizations and
malaria preventative for all four of us, and a small
allowance for fund raising, i.e. postage, fliers ...) $ 3,900
Travel costs: This includes our airline tickets, baggage fees,
entry visas, medical insurance, Lodging, food,
in country transportation and misc expenses $ 9,890
For a grand total of: $ 13,790
WOW, now that the cat is out of the bag ... let's talk about the variations and what would happen with any left over money.
First of all, some expenses are tentatively. As TAM is a very Young ministry and we are the first team from our church going to help with TAM in Uganda, there simply is no detailed protocol or handbook available to us.
Our immunization and malaria cost are variable and depend on our insurance and deductibles. Any of you having to ever deal with their insurance, know this may take a while before we will get clear answers. In the meantime we need to cover this to the full price. Airline tickets might vary a bit as well. right now we can get them for about $ 1,600/person but in a month or two they can be as high as $ 2,500/person. Yikes!!! So, we really need to get them as soon as funding gets there!
Another flexible amount is baggage fees, transportation and lodging. That all depends on how much donated supplies we can gather to take with us and if we are able to make all the trips planned while in Uganda. A 1/4 gallon of gas is currently costs about $ 1.60 so that's about $ 6.80/gallon, which explains why it is so costly to travel in Uganda. Oh, and you usually have to hire a driver as well!
Currently we have about $ 4,500 from our own money and roughly $ 550 in donations. That leaves us with $ 8,740 to be raised by the end of the month.
Why by the end of the month, you wonder? Well, quite frankly we really need to book our flights in order to get a good price on them. January, the time we are meant to be there, is right in the short dry season Uganda has and therefore the best time to go. TAM has recommended avoiding the rain season, as inner country travel might become impossible. TAM has to plan for our accommodations, arrangements have to be made with the airlines for extra freight, in country meetings scheduled, leave turned in and so forth.
If we can not reach the majority of the funding by end of November we will have to push our departure back until we reach funding and TAM can put us in.
Should we exceed needed funding, all proceeds will be given directly to TAM to by chairs and tables for the kindergarten.
All that said, what we really need is your support in praying for us! We would love for you to partner with us in praying for us.
All else will happen in his time and to his will, as is always better than ours!
Much love,
Marion
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