EncouragING HEARTS AND HANDS
Our Village Fold is a nonprofit Community Center and Trade School.
Our Dream
Pius’ Story
My name is Pius Enyano. I was born and raised in Uganda. I lost both of my parents at a very young age and was taken to be raised in a baby’s home/ orphanage called the Good Shepherd’s Fold along with my six brothers. It’s also from this Christian home that I found my faith in God.
In 2013, I met a wonderful God fearing woman, Hilary Taylor. We dated long-distance and ended up getting married in 2020. The dream for Our Village Fold began in 2018 when we considered marriage.
Even before we got married, I had been striving to improve the lives of my people. I was overseeing two projects that helped build schools in villages in Uganda and the other provided bicycles to locals to run businesses in their communities.
In 2020, When I arrived in the US, i wished I could carry everything and drop it in Africa for them to see and taste a little of this country but i knew that was impossible. I could not carry back everything I was seeing in the US, but I wanted to take back something tangible to my people. It was also always a dream like so many to learn a skill in the US or Canada, if ever I traveled there. skills I could use to impact others. so I started school as a plumber.
I graduated and am working with a wonderful crew and company to get that skill up but i know with this, I will not go back to my people empty-handed. Through my time as a student at the trade school here in the USA, I thought about how I could put up a small school in my village that could help other young people acquire a skill like I was doing. There is only one government trade school in the whole state and it makes it hard for many young girls and boys to acquire skills. Most of them end up going into early marriages or picking up bad habits. So the dream of starting a trade school in Northeastern Uganda started this way. I hope and pray this initiative comes to flourish and I can look back five years down the road and see some body’s life changed. thank you.
Hilary’s Story
My name is Hilary Enyano. I was born in Pennsylvania, USA where I was raised in a Christian homeschool family who focused a large part of our curriculum on missionary biographies. God put a desire in my heart from an early age to be involved in ministry through serving food at a local rescue mission, working at VBS and Bible camps, and through various short-term mission trips which took me to India, Mexico, Austria, Madagascar, Burkina Faso, and Uganda while continually seeking God’s direction for my life. I spent a semester training at CEF’s Children’s Ministries Institute, then earned a two-year Bible certificate at Word of Life Bible Institute, finally transferring to Cairn University where I earned a B.S. degree in Bible with a focus in Discipleship Counseling. During college, I felt led to serve at an orphanage which eventually led me to Sonrise Ministries in Uganda, Africa the summer of 2013. It was there I met a friendly, confident, handsome, and easy-to-talk-to guy named Pius Enyano. By the end of the trip, I felt drawn to the Ugandan people and hoped to return one day.
Pius expressed he had developed “forever feelings” for me before I left for home, but having just ended a relationship I was not ready to enter another one, so we parted as Facebook friends. When I returned to Uganda in the summer of 2018, Pius sought me out and shared from his heart that he felt God was drawing us together. He also shared his dreams for the future and his love for the Ugandan people. I decided I wanted to give him a chance, asking God to grow my feelings for Pius during what would be a long-distance relationship and to make clear if this was indeed His will. Within seven months, I knew Pius was God’s plan for me. Pius proposed to me upon my return to Uganda in February 2019 and I said yes! We were married in the US in March 2020, and now have three little girls. God used each experience to shape who I’ve become and led to the dream that I share with my husband.
One idea God has lain on my heart is to establish a Community Center where I could teach Bible lessons to children and women, minister through tea parties, and offer practical skills training. There is a need in Northeastern Uganda to learn food preservation skills so that people do not starve during the dry season. I hope to learn these skills so I can then teach the women so their families do not go hungry during the droughts.
Our Village Fold is the combined dream of Pius and Hilary Enyano, to build a Trade School and Community Center in the Northeastern part of Uganda.
Our Stories
We Have a Dream
Our dream is to build a healthy community of God-fearing, responsible, self-reliant people through discipleship and the acquisition of hands-on skills. We plan to accomplish this by constructing and operating a community center and trade school. Our first phase is to construct the community center where we hope to provide spiritual guidance through women’s groups, a kids’ playroom, and instruction in useful skills to improve their lives, such as food preservation, tailoring, tutoring, and other practical skills.
Our ultimate dream is to open a trade school that will impact people, both male and female, young and old, in the villages of Uganda. We hope to utilize both local and international volunteers and professionals to impart trades such as plumbing, construction, and electricity. Successful students would have a good chance to find gainful employment that helps to build a self-sustaining community and eventually be willing to pass their skills and experience on to other students at our school.
Our Current Reality
We have been able to secure property in Northeastern Uganda. We are now raising funds to build the Community Center and Trade School buildings. We have begun the process of officially becoming a non-profit organization in the USA. We are looking for partners who share our vision to join our team. Will you partner with us?
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Our Mission
Our Village Fold is a Christian community-based center of learning and skill
development.
Our Vision
To build a healthy community of God-fearing, responsible, self-reliant people through hand skills and discipleship in Uganda, Africa.
Values
Faith, hope, love, and accountability.
Our Board of Directors
Founder/Director
Pius & Hilary Enyano
Pius and Hilary Enyano are the Founder & Directors of Our Village Fold. With a passion for community development and practical education, Hilary is dedicated to teaching valuable skills to the community through classes such as food preservation. Pius is a practicing plumber with a passion for passing his knowledge on to others through the trade school in his home country, Uganda.
Treasurer
Ronald Taylor
Ronald is the treasurer of Our Village Fold. He is the perfect fit for the position with many years of experience, a passion for community development, and a knack for accounting and financial planning. Ron is dedicated to keeping all records of funds for the organization and keeping all parties accountable for how the money is being used.
Secretary
Terri Sue Taylor
Terri is the secretary of Our Village Fold. She brings a life-long commitment and dedication to educational development. Terri is a dedicated board member who strongly believes in our mission and vision for the organization. She keeps us organized, offering creative ideas that support Our Village Fold.
Co-Founder
Julian Sullivan
Julian is a hardworking young man with a big heart who desires to help people. He is one of many kids who lived at the orphanage with Pius. Julian was adopted as a child and moved to the US where he became a citizen. After many years when he visited Uganda, he saw their needs first-hand. This reminded him of himself as a young child and he wanted to impact the lives of his people. He has contributed wholeheartedly to Our Village Fold.
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