Irene Gleeson Foundation (IGF) executive director Mr John Paul Kiffasi (L) introducing Gene Donahue (R), Director of Logistics and Supply Chain, Feed the Hungry at the bible conference in Kitgum district held 4-5 Nov., 2019. Photo| Irene Gleeson Foundation
2,500 Children in Kitgum district, northern Uganda, attended a two day conference that was aimed at teaching young Christians the precious truth of the bible in a way that is appropriate for their age.
Spearheaded by the Irene Gleeson Foundation (IGF), the conference was also used as a platform to conduct assessment for community sustainability projects, according to Mr Kiffasi John Paul, the IGF executive director.
This happened in partnership with Feed the Hungry and Feed My Starving Children USA, a Christian nonprofit committed to feeding starving children hungry in body and spirit.
Aside the bible conference, the charity groups preached in Church (Christian community Church), visited the sick in hospital, visited men and women in prison and helped with water baptism.
Feed the Hungry was founded by missionary statesman Dr. Lester Sumrall (1913–1996) in 1987 to respond to God’s challenge, “That my church in the third world does not die of hunger before I return.”
About the Irene Gleeson Foundation
Founded in 1991 by the late Australian philanthropist and missionary Irene Gleeson, the Christian NGO’s vision is to transform, liberate and empower people to build sustainable communities.
Gleeson first came to war-torn Northern Uganda in 1992, after selling her beach-side Northern Beaches home in Sydney. She parked her caravan in the Lord’s Resistance Army territory close to the then-border of Sudan, and over the years built her orphan school around it.
Gleeson died on 21 July 2013 after a yearlong battle with cancer, surrounded by her family in Sydney. Her work lives on through the Irene Gleeson Foundation.
