Returning To The Destitute Family.

As we walked up the dusty road, we were on our way to review another Women's Group. I've done 13 now. Each group have up to 300 hundred dependents who rely on the extra income and support gained from the group's activities.

Just before my meeting we popped into the family I brought to your attention on Friday 28th  January. Today, we gave the family two blankets, sheets and pillows that we couldn't find before our previous visit.

Three Years Old

On arriving it struck me how sick this child was. All the family love him, but he's got multiple health issues which aren't going away until he dies, which I'm quite sure will happen soon. Playing God isn't easy but we can't let him go without some sort of fight. 

Marie and I have decided to get him to the Health Centre ASAP and get a large bag of maize (100Kg) to a neighbour, so they can give the family enough food each week to survive. Christ, what have we become to allow kids and people exist like this eh! Jean and I are donating a goat as well to hopefully generate some milk and income in the near future. Would anybody like to match fund a second goat so they have two? Cost will be a one-off donation of 100,000 Ugandan shillings - £25.00 to us in the UK. 

On Monday, the walls of their mud house are being built by local people and before the rainy season in 3 weeks is here, the family will be in their new shack with a tin roof over their heads. The one they have is not theirs and I wouldn't put a flock of chickens in it, let alone human beings. Many thanks for reading this. Ring Jean today if you can sign up for the extra goat. We will name it after you!!!

On a lighter note, Alfie has been causing mayhem all over the compound, thinking that he is the centre of the universe. More about 'the compound' tomorrow, before I head back to Kampala on Sunday to pick Jean up. 

Foot note

Agnes, Head of the Red Cross in the local area (AVS Uganda - Committee member), has today sent her trusty negotiator to liaise with the best herdsmen in the Muyembe district. His mission is to buy the Norbury School a cow for presenting to a family next week. She is confident of getting a good healthy cow up to the standard that the farmers of 'The Marches' would expect! I hope they don't expect me to look after her until then!! Or I could be doing what the lady is doing in the photo below.

Hope her hands are warm!!!!