Author name: steve argent

With half of our volunteer group still in Uganda, the other half say goodbye to Kenya, and get ready for some cross-continent travels to Sierra Leone..    ‘A big farewell to Kenya! Not long enough there but Sierra Leone awaits…buses, flights and a night on an airport floor to get through first.’

Heartspring Kenya, children’s village. 98 interviews in 18 hours over 2 days! Emotionally exhausting. The result is 21 new kids coming to our project in the coming days. 🙂 Diana, the daughter of our project directors, did such an amazing job translating the tragic stories. It’s amazing to be working with such a committed family!! The

Heartspring Kenya welcomes some new family members.  Deep into hundreds of interviews of children who simply need help. Tough decisions as we can only afford to bring in a few. Now is the time to stop what you are doing, believe you can change a life and sponsor a child today. Everyone who can spare

Steve and the band of volunteers destined for Heartspring children’s Village in Kenya, have not wasted any time. Cement mixed, bricks being laid…. Watch the classrooms grow!!  Nice work guys! 

Seven of our volunteers had some hard goodbyes with the children of Kasese Children’s Village, and hit the road for Kenya, Orphfund’s Heartspring Children’s Village.  Volunteers – Glenn Rees, Salvo Out, Ken Argent, Nic Six, Gee Manofdarkness, Steff Steff, Mark Wilrfred Anstey.          “16 hours into our journey from project Uganda to project

Ever wondered what it would be like to volunteer for an orphfund project?  Nows the time to see the work in action as it takes place.  Click the link below to Check out Orphfunds instagram https://www.instagram.com/orphfund/ and join Orphfunds facebook page.  https://www.facebook.com/orphfund/ The 19th Orphfund project is underway and volunteers will be updating daily as

Volunteer George getting dirty and working hard painting the Kitholi @orphfund dorms! #orphfund #uganda #volunteer #africa

With the 19th Orphfund team on the ground in Uganda, Steve shares what will be one of many hard days ahead, and meets an invaluable new member of the Orphfund family.  “Without doubt one of the hardest days for me yesterday of this project and any project. It was all made better by meeting one

A donation from Deans Art.  Before we left Australia, Deans Art supplied a screen press frame that we were ecstatic to pack up and trek over to Uganda. The frame was put to good use at the Orphfund Kasese Children’s home yesterday! A whole afternoon of cutting stencils that the kids drew themselves resulted in the first

Marion – Uganda, Kasese Children’s Village This is our lovely girl Marion from the OrphFund Kasese Children’s Village. A couple of days ago Marion fell ill and yesterday was diagnosed with malaria and is now in hospital. She has the best of care and we expect her home in a couple of days.  Malaria is