🌿Hope Restored Christian Ministries

Save the Date — Saturday, August 2, 2025 ·4 PM – 7 PM

5ᵗʰ Annual Dinner & Auction for Nakaseeta

Wilcox Family Farms · 40742 Harts Lake Valley Rd S, Roy, WA 98580

🍗 Enjoy mouth-watering BBQ, 🎶 live music from Lynn Graciano and the “B” Street Brass, and a beautiful view with Mount Rainier framing the evening sky. Browse vibrant Ugandan paintings paired with locally handcrafted frames, plus benches, outdoor chairs, and other 🪵 handcrafted wood-working pieces—all up for sale with proceeds benefiting the construction of Nakaseeta’s first dental clinic. We are also in the process of procuring silent auction items for the fundraiser. If you have goods or services that you would like to donate, please be in contact with us.

Suggested donation: $50 per plate.Bring friends and family, the more, the merrier!

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🏗️Building Healthy Smiles: Your Gift Builds Nakaseeta’s First Dental Clinic

Nakaseeta’s children suffer some of Uganda’s highest rates of untreated tooth decay. When the pain strikes, families travel hours—or simply endure it. A permanent clinic—steps from the school alongside our medical center—will provide:

• Pain-free learning – no distraction in class.

• 😄 Confidence to smile & speak up – self-esteem blossoms.

• 🍽️ Better nutrition & growth – chewing wholesome foods again.

• Cycle-breaking knowledge – hygiene lessons ripple through families.

• 🎒 Keeping kids in school – fewer absences linked to oral pain.

  
  

“This clinic will be the first of its kind in our area, where many—both children and adults—go years without any dental care.”—Co-founder John Joseph

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Central Uganda’s 🦷 Silent Toothache Crisis

(and why a village clinic in Nakaseeta can change everything)

A five-year-old in Nakaseeta should worry about learning the alphabet, not the stab of a spoonful of posho against an aching molar. Yet across Central Uganda, tooth decay is stealing childhood hours, classroom focus, and self-confidence long before permanent teeth even arrive. Posho is a thick, dough-like dish made from boiled cornmeal, similar to grits or polenta, and is a staple food in Uganda.

Up to one in every two nursery-school pupils and two in every three teenagers already live with untreated tooth decay¹ In nearby Luweero, more than 11,000 teeth were pulled in a single year—evidence of a system that extracts rather than heals.² Without a clinic in Nakaseeta, our children face the same painful trajectory.

System capacity is thin: Uganda’s dentist-to-population ratio is just 1:158,000, and most dentists cluster in Kampala’s private clinics, leaving peri-urban districts like Nakaseeta, Wakiso, and Luweero with only intermittent outreach³

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What this means for Nakaseeta

• 📚 Lost learning hours – a single ache can cost multiple school days.

• Nutrition setbacks – pain drives children to soft, low-protein foods.

• 💔 Self-esteem hits – stained or missing front teeth silence young voices.

  
  

A modest on-site clinic—even one day a week—flips the script: early check-ups, quick fillings, fluoride varnish, and hygiene lessons stop decay before it scars a lifetime.

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📍 Where We Stand Today

Milestone	Status
Dental chairs	Donated
Architectural layout	Drafted & approved
Construction fund needed	$7,000 for materials & labor
Staffing plan	Local dentist & hygienist confirmed

Every dollar now pours concrete, lays bricks, and brings the first-ever dental clinic to Nakaseeta.

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🎁 What Your Gift Accomplishes:

Construction Budget

#	Item	Cost	#	Item	Cost
1	Bricks	$479	13	Rags	$49
2	Sand — Grade 1	$384	14	Building poles	$164
3	Sand — Grade 2	$384	15	Timbers 4 × 2	$153
4	Cement	$815	16	Face boards	$110
5	Hard-core stones	$110	17	Connectors	$5
6	Concrete stones	$110	18	Ceiling mesh	$274
7	Iron bars	$220	19	Doors	$164
8	Rings	$55	20	Windows	$274
9	Binding wire	$41	21	Transport	$55
10	Soft-wood boards	$49	22	Water	$55
11	Nails	$82	23	Painting	$822
12	Iron sheets	$890	24	Labor	$1,165
	Total	$6,993

🔭 Looking Ahead

1. School-day clinics – every child seen twice a year.

2. Community hours – parents and neighbors finally receive care.

3. Hands-on hygiene workshops – lifelong habits that prevent disease.

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🔨 Join the Build

1. 💳 Donate – one-time or monthly gifts on our Dental Clinic Fundraiser page.

2. 🔗 Share – repost this newsletter and link on social media.

3. 🙏 Pray & encourage – your words energize volunteers as bricks rise.

   
   

“Every contribution makes a difference.”

Together we will replace toothaches with bright, confident smiles for hundreds of children—and it all starts with the walls we raise today.

Thank you for being part of this life-changing project!

Sources

1. Kiwanuka S. et al., Int J Paediatr Dent 14 (2004).

2. Uganda Radio Network, District Health Report 2023/24.

3. Ndagire B. et al., Braz Dent J 31 (2020); Ministry of Health workforce statistics.