No human being should have to live in the conditions that I witnessed today after our third distribution. Five people exist in a hovel made of bricks and corrugated steel. Most of us in Canada have bathrooms larger than what this family was living in.
The only furniture was a small dilapidated couch and a filthy mattress, but this is reality for millions of poverty-stricken children in Uganda. The father of the family abandoned them and his whereabouts were not known.
There was a woman with a teenage son, two girls eight and ten, and a tiny two year old girl. The ten year old received a bedkit earlier that morning. The mother told us that the two older girls would share the mattress which demonstrates the fact that.a bedkit benefits the entire family. Our wish would be that we brought a sliver of hope and happiness through the gift of a bedkit.
Rosanne Waugh for
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