BCC Historical Timeline

1979

• Sam Wandendeya escaped from Idi Amin

1980

• Sam founds an Orphanage. Begins Christian Fellowship Outreach

1983

• 60 Orphans are transferred to BCC site. Sam starts a school for 150 children under the mango tree and in old church building

1984

• Clinic is established to meet the health needs of orphans and surrounding community

1985

• CFO dissolved

1989

• Bushikori Christian Centre begins
• Geelong Couple, Margery and Rex Hobbs meet Pastor Sam during a visit to Uganda

1994

• Pastor Sam Wandendeya visits Australia. Geelong support committee formed.
• President Margery Hobbs

1995

• Alan Morgan and John Duffield visit B.C.C.

1996

• Decision to have a more formal committee structure. Chairperson John Duffield

1997

• Margery Hobbs and Pamela Bregman visit B.C.C.
• Margery officially opens the new two room school building.
• We begin praying for electricity and a security fence for the centre.

1998

• In January, our first container load of Goods arrives at B.C.C and tragically Pastor Sam Wandendeya is killed in a Bus accident the same day.
• Sam's school closed down by Govt. due to cholera epidemic in area.
• Daryl and Mary-Anne Hobbs visit B.C.C.
• Sam's wife, Anne takes over as Director of B.C.C.
• Anne undertakes six month course in Project Planning & management.
• We begin praying for a house for Anne, toilets for the clinic.

1999

• Pamela Bregman and Pastor Greg Illingworth visit B.C.C.
• BCC website begins. Communication by email starts.
• BCC Australia becomes an Incorporated body
• We begin praying for a midwife's house.

2000

• John and Lyn Duffield visit B.C.C
• Anne and Pastor Samwiri visit Australia
• BCC church moves across the road. Midwives house begins.
• The first annual report and AGM of BCC Australia.

2001

• John and Lyn Duffield move to Uganda to work with B.C.C.
• Chairperson - Pamela Ferrar (Bregman)
• BCC sponsorship fees rise to $320. Direct deposits are possible

2002

• The second Container arrives in Uganda.
• Electricity comes to the centre for the first time
• A house is bought for Anne
• The first O Neil foundation donation

2003

• Second Container unloaded and Workparty from Australia and England visit B.C.C.
• Joshua Primary begins with two completed rooms.
• Church hall turned into a ward, drug store & Lab.
• Security fence erected
• Midwife building completed
• Chairperson - Kerry Peacock

2004

• Third classroom built.
• Hiace bus purchased for centre
• Anne Wandendeya and Michael Wangwe visit Geelong and attend 10th Anniversary Service

2005

• Fourth classroom built

2006

• Fifth classroom built.
• Work party from Geelong, Australia visit Uganda.
• Administration building opening
• BCC financial database is built.
• Anne begins Bachelors degree in Developmental Studies
• Richard Stone Tertiary Fund commenced in memory of our treasurer who sadly died while actively serving on the committee

2007

• John, Lyn Emma & Annie Duffield come back to Australia to live.
• Rex & Liane Foord visit BCC. They are special guests at the first graduation
• Ceremony held at BCC for Tertiary/Vocation students.
• New BCC Australia website launched.
• Engineering Ministries International provide BCC Uganda with a Master plan

2008

• Gift /welfare pool is set up so BCC Uganda can respond to immediate need for aid.
• Classrooms 6 & 7 completed and in use. The school is completed.
• After 14 years as Orphan Administrators Ella & Lance Matheson hand over the role to Pamela.
• Database of sponsored children set up, tertiary cap begins

2009

• Library is built.
• Clinic gets own toilet block. Extensions begin.
• Generator purchased.
• CD of BCC children singing produced

2010

• Land purchased.
• Mini van purchased.
• Scholarships provided by Rotary Highton Kardinia, another by Church by the Bay

2011

• Maternity extension.
• Staffroom begins.
• Motorbike purchased.
• Liane Foord becomes Child sponsorship Co - Ordinator

2012

• On 24^thApril the Friends of Bushikori begins as a fundraising and support group
• Staff room is completed.
• Pink Umbrella partners to provide health support.
• Information booklet on BCC Australia designed and printed, including new logo.
• Commissioning Day held at BCC Uganda
• Esther Cohen and Samantha Rawson visit Bushikori

2013

• Ivan's book published (picture book written by sponsored child)
• Alumni Group of past students begins in BCC Uganda
• Hall attached to staffroom begins construction

2014

• Sponsorship fee rises to $360.
• Mission group from Geelong visits BCC Uganda
• New constitution begins, which allows for General members of the Association from which Committee members are elected.
• Margery Hobbs receives the title of Patron, as President role must be an annually elected.
• President- Kerry Peacock
• 25 years since Margery Hobbs began sending support to Pastor Samuel.
• 20 years of the Australian Support Committee

2015

• Purchase of a new bus for Bushikori
• The Make for a Difference Dinner at Truffle Duck
• Musical Afternoon at Belmont Uniting Church
• Trivia Night to raise funds for The Richard Stone Fund
• Elsie Brown - Committee member sadly died in September of this year

2016

• The contribution of Pink Umbrella continues
• Birth of triplets through the Clinic at Bushikori
• Campbell House Geelong College funded a fuel efficiency stove
• Liane Foord - Committee member and Child Sponsorship co-ordinator sadly died in October of this year. Pamela Ferrar and Rex Foord have continued the role

2017

• First Skype Meeting with Bushikori
• Ongoing support of the staff at Covenant College
• High Tea at Belmont Uniting Church
• The Multi Purpose Hall completed and named “The Geelong Hall.”
• Rex and Nicholas Foord visit Bushikori for the offical naming ceremony of the Geelong Hall

2018

• Visit of Anne and David Wandendeya to Australia
• Development of a merged financial and child sponsorship database
• Support given to Bushikori for drainage and harvesting of water and power connection to the library
• Information Dinner at City on a Hill ”Taste of Uganda”
• Footy Trivia Night held at St Johns Highton with Ian Cover
• Esther Cohen visited Bushikori Uganda and attended wedding of David Wandendeya and his wife Linda Noel
• Approximately 80 Joshua Primary School students staying at the centre and each Sunday they hold their own children's church in the Geelong Hall

2019

• 25th. Anniversary Thanksgiving Service at Belmont Uniting
• Donation from Norm O'Neill for the building of on site teacher accommodation housing
• Pamela Ferrar and Laurel Ling visited Bushikori
• Building commenced Boy's hostel and teacher's accommodation

2020

• Pandemic Covid 19, contact restrictions in place and schools in Uganda shut down
• Althea Abraham and Roger White join ASC
• Death of founding member and Patron Margery Hobbs
• Death of founding member Lance Matheson

2021

• Pandemic Covid 19 continues to cause issues
• Death of Director Anne Wandendeya
• Board of Trustees appoint Mary Wanendeya as acting Director

2022

2023

2024

• Bushikori and ASC Celebrate 30 years

2025

2026