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| From Uganda 2011 |
I must admit that while working with these children, whether on the photo end or the bedkit end, I often wonder about their lives and what might become of them. In our morning travels to the different sites, I see lots of children carrying cans of water on their heads, and I see them in their school uniforms at 6 a.m. walking or running on the gravel roads on their way to school. I suspect the children receiving your bedkits are doing that too. And it seems so tough.
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| From Uganda 2011 |
And she looked at me as if to say, “Which planet, exactly, are you from?”
Yes, of course she had carried water as a child.
She would rise at 5 a.m., get the water for her mom, and carry it home in jerry cans made of clay. The filled jerry cans could weigh 20 kilos! She would leave for school at 7 and start class at 8. The walk to school was 5 km. The walk home was 5 km. No school bus … She grew up in western Uganda where we are presently distributing bedkits and it is mountainous. Her school was one hill over! The school day ended at 5 pm.
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| From Uganda 2011 |
And she has done well. After university she taught briefly, and eventually became an expeditor of cargo coming from anywhere in the world to Uganda.
She loves it and is very happy doing it.
And with a little luck, some of these children receiving your bedkits will do as well. And be as happy.
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| Uganda 2011 |
for the Uganda 2011 SCAW Team
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