Alabama Power employee travels across the ocean to reach out to children with disabilities

By: Carla Davis

Tara Ellis recently embarked on a mission trip to Uganda, Africa, to lend a helping hand to children with special needs, little knowing then that she would “receive as much as she gave.”

“It was a life-changing experience,” said Ellis, Power Delivery specialist in Alabama Power’s Contract Services. “We went there to help these children and give them a little love. But they literally gave me joy. They are happy all the time and love everyone around them. I learned they are not special needs; they are beautifully and uniquely made.”

Ellis traveled to Uganda in February for an eight-day mission trip sponsored by Promise International, a Montgomery, Alabama-based nonprofit that works in that country to provide resources and educational opportunities to children with special needs and their families, as well as schools that serve them. The organization also trains pastors and university professors in Uganda and is raising funds to build a school on the Nile River solely focused on educating children with disabilities.

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