We drove to Kitonozi from Masindi in NW Uganda for today’s distribution of 585 bedkits. The people here speak a handful of languages including Lunyoro, Swahili, Lugsnda.
Once again, the Inner Wheel team in Uganda had everything on the ground well organized for the distribution.
Kitonozi is located in a rural area whose main industry is sugar cane grows and refining. It’s an impoverished district with many children (at least 50%) who leave school at 12 or 13 years because their families do not have the equivalent of $20 to $40 a year for compulsory school fees. Child disease issues are prevalent (eg. ringworm) with no money for child medical attention.
Still, the people are proud and do whatever they can to make a living. Young girls help till crops and often get married in young teenage years. The boys often work in the sugar cane fields and the sugar refining plant as young as 13 years to help cover family expenses. Families are everything in rural Uganda. They all look after each other. The families were all so appreciative to receive our bedkits.
Brian Barr
Team Uganda 2019
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