Helping the Children of Africa

1:08 pm June 9, 2013 One thing I've realized is there's no "comfort" in Uganda. The beds are lumpy, the pillows and sofa's are hard. The chairs aren't comfy and are few and far between. Most restaurants have only plastic lawn chairs for diners to sit in. There's dark orange dirt everywhere, your clothing gets covered in all that dust and its hard to wash off. Kids have to scrub clothes by hand and that's why their clothes are ruined and have big holes since they have to rub them so hard to get out stains. Most people don't "comfort" their crying children either. The parents or guardians of kids have a "they'll get over it" attitude and tend to ignore kids most of the time. Many parents don't ever hug their child.   People there walk 1-2 miles to get water from a well and also to get to school, the market, church, clinics etc. Most families can't even afford to ride in a taxi van or on the back of motor bikes that ...

May 13, 2013 7:53pm Below are true stories of some of the kids who attend school in Jinja and they have found sponsors in our charity. One child was sent to live at school and her little brother was sent to live with a neighbor since their mom can't afford to pay rent. The mom used to come and dig in the school garden to make some money and she would  even eat at school since she couldn't afford food either.  Two kids had a fire at their home last week . T hey have said there was some damage to the home and it will need to be repaired but no one was hurt, They did lose almost all of their possessions in the fire which wasn't much to begin with. Many of these families barely have anything. One boy was abused by his uncle and made to work everyday and missed a lot of school.  He had no parents to care for him.  One girl was given away by her father who got tired of raising her and was then abused by her aunt who cut her arm.  Several hav...