Community Work - follow up on Hagira, Bridgette and Muwanga

- follow up

When we met this trio more than a month ago it was a very saddening encounter.

The children lived in very bad conditions, and their legs heavily infested with jiggers. The children lived in a child headed family led by a 9 year old boy. They barely  had food to eat as their mother was truly married to alcohol. We were made to understand that this lady hardly spent two days in a week at her home.

We started counselling this lady during the month of March and as I report now, the whole family is reunited and the children can now afford a smile on their faces.

All thanks go out to Whisper supports for your continuous support to these causes. Our plan is to improve these children's sleeping conditions through purchase of beds, blankets and bed sheets and mosquito nets. We also intend to resettle them into school so that they too can live the normal life as other children do.

Complied by:
Mutaasa Mugereza Ayoob

In addition to the above information, below are the following costs for the needs in this family.

Papyrus of dividing the room so that they can use for both running some business as well as sleeping on the other side:

• Papyrus, nails, plus transport for these materials 65.000 UGSH
• School fees are 35.000 per child per term in a nearby private school, for the Government school is very far for these kids to run every morning to Kyabilwa Primary Schoo. This is without any scholastic material for them.
• In the matter of improving the sleeping condition, the following costs will be encored:

1. Two decker Beds 90.000
2. Two mattresses 90.000
3. Three blankets and bed sheets 30.000
4. Two mosquito nets 20.00

The community outreach costs was 25.000 for transport, water and bits such were soap to wash the children, and their clothes, and some sweets.

Thanks to Whisper

Complied by:

Emmanuel Mugabi

Community Service in Kivubuka Village - Follow up II

A WAY OF INCOME FOR A SINGLE MOTHER - SELLING LOCAL BREW

RE: Community Service in Kivubuka, Kazinga Village - follow up II

The major aim of this visit this time round was to make a profound search for the mother to the children.

The team went straight to check on the children and this is where we got information on the possible location of the mother. After combing the area in this pursuit, we finally found the children's mother leaving about two villages away from the children. At the time we found her, she was involved in local brew selling, which she said she engaged in as a way of making some income. Her average per day is between $1/2 and $1.

We counselled her and advised her to start living with her kids which she agreed to. She promised that within a period of four days, she would move them into her new place.



Observation:
She sells local brew for an income

Costs Involved:
Transport and feeding for the day:     25.000 Sh

Whisper Team participants included: Mugabi Emmanuel & Mutaasa Mugereza Ayub

Community Service in Kivubuka Village - Follow Up

Community service in Kivubuka, Kazinga Village - Follow up 

On this above date the Whisper Team again made a courtesy call to the child headed family in Kivubuka for a follow up of the activities done on the 7th of March 2012.

Not much had changed when the team arrived, the trio still lay there in a lot of misery and one could clearly see that hunger still ruled his home. This time the team had chance to check the entire house and look at the sleeping conditions of these three kids again, it was pathetic. The children's geldings (tattered pieces of cloths) are all scattered all over the room and there were a lot of fleas.

Attempts to find the mother to the children were made but all to no avail. This was postponed for a later date.

Observation:

• Children sleep on the floor
• The house is full of dust
• The house id dominated by fleas that have sucked the children's blood causing them a lot of anaemia
• The mother takes more than 4 days to come home

Costs Involved:

Transport (taxi + BodaBoda)     20.000 Sh
Water and food for the children   7.000 Sh
Rescue food for the children       3.000 Sh

Whisper Team participants included: Mugabi Emmanuel


Volunteer: Tomek Deko from Poland