Giving Back

𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘉𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘉𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥…

ETC recently launched a Volunteer Time-Off Benefit Program! Our employees get paid up to a full week every year when volunteering their time to causes that help enrich our world. Does your company offer any exciting opportunities like this? Please feel free to give us a call and we can share our experience in setting up this type of program. Reach out to us for more information and check back often to see what our amazing employees are doing during their VTO adventures!

Please take a moment to enjoy this short and touching video. Your contribution helped make this all possible and we wanted to make sure you know that you made a difference in the world of these two families, as well as our own.

March, 2013 — ETC Building & Design is excited to announce the completion of a third home in Uganda! See pictures of the transformation below!

September, 2012 — ETC Building & Design is pleased to announce the completion of a second home in Uganda. A neighborhood celebration is underway after months of hard work from our friends at COG and the local people with support from ETC. Finishing touches include a solar light source to provide enough light for Margaret and her two children to do their homework and read after the sun goes down. See photos of the completed home and the construction process, together with Margaret and her family below.

May, 2012 — Children of Grace reached out to ETC this month to share exciting updates in Uganda made possible through our continued support of empowerment programs and operations in the area. With an impressive 87% literacy rate, Ugandan children are eager to open a good book. The challenge facing Children of Grace is that most children in Uganda have minimal access to reading material. ETC Building & Design stepped in to support “Read 2 Succeed!” – a mobile library which travels through different villages and towns providing CoG students with more than 1,000 books and special book readings outside the classroom. During a recent holiday break in April, more than 150 students participated in the Read to Succeed program! See photos of the Read to Succeed program below.

Jajja, Caroline & Josepine: Pictured below are Caroline and Josephine. They have made tremendous progress in the two months since Children of Grace found them in an isolated village. Caroline is now very much enjoying the food she gets everyday. Josephine shows a newfound love of play. In addition, she now gets very excited when she sees the Children of Grace car pull up – and cries when they leave. A doctor visited here on a missions trip recently and performed a fairly simple surgery that helped straighten one of Josephine’s eyes. The girls are healthy enough to go home to their grandmother now, and Children of Grace is working to give her grandmother the confidence to care for the girls.

October, 2010 — ETC founders Mike Essrig and Chris Taylor have just returned from a trip to Uganda where they got a first-hand view of the philanthropic work of Children of Grace. This organization offers hope to Ugandan AIDS orphans through education, nutrition, healthcare and empowerment programs to enable a better future. Essrig and Taylor experienced the poverty, devastation and disease in the villages there, and saw how Children of Grace is improving the lives of these children. The organization is extremely efficient in its support of some 700 orphans, with assessment, care and mentorship.