Day 2 of the Uganda Distribution is complete and was a great success. 585 bedkits were distributed and 585 happy smiling children proudly carried their gifts home to begin enjoying a much better sleep.
Part of the SCAW teams responsibility is to visit some recipients of a bedkit from a previous years' distribution. On Sunday after our distribution was complete we visited a single mother and her 2 children to see how the bedkit, that her son received in 2017 was standing up.
I find that these visits provide a stark reminder why SCAW's work is so important. The mother and her 2 children rent a room approximately 10ft x 10ft for CAD$7 a month. They live in this room with the mother and daughter sleeping together on blankets and the son sleeping on the bed. Unfortunately, due to the beliefs of the mother the son and daughter cannot share the bed.
The son is attending school but the daughter had to stop attending because their mother cannot earn enough money doing laundry to afford school uniforms for both children, along with rent and food.
Seeing people living in these conditions and how much a simple bedkit means to them helps remind us of how significant SCAW's impact can be.
Neil Waugh for
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