Many
of us have passed through a hard life as we are from polygamous families.
Our parents separate and some die when we are very young and we
don't see them until we grew up, and it is not easy to stay with
stepmothers.
Mothers die when we are 8 years
old or below and fathers always marry five women beyond . Orphans are left
with elder sisters or step mothers who also die when they are still
young.
Mothers divorce when children are 8
years old or below and they never see the love of a mother. And to
make it worse, mother get married to another man whose wife is
expected to have died of AIDS and of course mothers are affected
also. They fell sick and unconsciously die. For one month and up to
now orphans loose their mind and can’t grow with good mind,
can’t recognize people as friends and on top of that, elder sister loose
their husband who also die of AIDS. We have many children who are before
us and need church care. Their parents died.
The same story is happening to
thousands of children in Uganda. They have no one to love them, many have
lost both parents, others one parent. And when one parent dies, the other
parent is also a moving dead. Most children have ended up on streets, eat
from dust-bins and others are crowded with their grand-parents who of
course are unable to care and help them. Many girls are forced into
marriage by the unbearable situations at the age of 14 e.g. lack of school
fees, clothing etc. So the whole story makes one to shade tears. And
because we have lived the same way in one way or the other, we strongly
feel a love for these needy children who have lost their parents because
of AIDS and many other calamities.
We would love to show them love
that they’ve missed. For the last years, we’ve been looking
for opportunities, how we can help orphans and many other disadvantaged
children. We share the little we have and sometimes some of our friends
give a one-time financial gift, which gives us a relief. Our desire is to
have a sponsor for children in need. We need to start a school
with a purpose of meeting the education need for the orphans and poor
needy children. That is our dream. Locally we can’t meet all the needs
for these lovely children, we need people to stand with us, to show love
in a practical way and the Lord will not forget our labor, so we call upon
the entire world to sponsor children who are needy through our
ministry
(
care
and Share secretary with the needy children)
THE
PLIGHT OF THE VILLAGERS IN THE THIRD WORLD
The
extremes of rural poverty in underdeveloped countries are outrage.’
Starting with uncompromising statement, we are trying to look direct in
the eyes of the vulnerable population affiliated with poverty.
The
concept poverty is often not seen or misperceived by the outsider, who
them selves are not rural and poor. We contend that researchers,
scientist, administrators and field workers rarely appreciates the
richness and validity and peoples knowledge or the hidden nature of rural
poverty. We are proposing a more realistic action tackling rural poverty.
There
is appalling poverty in Uganda, but rural poverty deserves special
attention and efforts because it is less visible. Hundreds of millions of
largely unseen people are in rural areas that are poor, weak, orphans,
elderly, isolated, vulnerable and powerless. Little we can do the fact
remaining that we are inside the skin, where we find our selves. Nor can
we resist poverty, despite good services, advice… by Care and Share
Foundation- Uganda.
Thousands
of individuals in Uganda are trapped in what is termed as
absolute poverty: a condition of life so characterized by malnutrition,
illiteracy, diseases, squalid surroundings, high infant mortality and low
life expectancy as to be beneath any reasonable definition of human
decency.
Old
English proverb
“What
the eye does not see, the heart doesn’t grieve about…”
There
are so many people who are poor, the prospect of the future misery are so
appalling, and the present efforts to eliminate that misery are so
inadequate, so much need to be done, so much radically. Click
here to help those in need.
Vulnerability and Poverty Ratchets
Households
become poorer by loss of asset. To meet small needs. People sale their
assets to meet their big needs or for small needs, which could be, build
up from too much pressure. For example, people sale their assets to afford
AIDS/HIV medications (treatment).
Disasters
take many forms. They may be directly man made: theft of livestock, tool;
burning of hut and war… Other disaster take a natural and widespread
form: floods; droughts; epidemic of plant; insect and animal diseases; and
famine, famine may be the most common trigger for sales of land and
livestock. Many people have land but nothing to eat. Sale of land becomes
epidemic as they surrender property to obtain food and survive.
Physical
incapability takes three forms: Prolonged sicknesses, Accidents,
Ignorance.
Social
conventions, which make heavy demands, include dowry, bride wealth, and
funeral… In Africa, expenditures on marriage process and funeral make
heavy demands on resources. In Africa dowry and funeral rites demands
exceed the resources of nominal sponsor.
Prolonged
illness. The sequence begins with the sickness of the head of the family.
As the sickness continues (in most cases AIDS/HIV victims) assets are sold
to pay for treatment, bit by bit, down even to the last small ring. In the
end the husband dies and in the end the widow and children are left as
destitute. This sets the family mostly of twenty people or beyond on an
irreversible downward slide.
In
such situations it is impossible to indicate the relative importance of
different causes of poverty. However, Care and Share foundation- Uganda
carried out careful research on our target group and we found that one
ratchet effect leads to another. And for many of the poor, depletion makes
them permanently poorer, and permanently vulnerable to becoming yet poorer
still.
"Our
mission is to give hope, relief and improve the quality of life of orphans, elderly and poor needy of Jinja,
Busoga and to entire Uganda as resources can allow"
We
believe that people need place to go to that has the resources to empower
them to make their dreams come true. At our center, members get ideas,
research opportunities, among other things that we organize. However, our
primary purpose is addressing the spiritual needs of our members. We
believe that addressing the spiritual needs is the foundation to
addressing any other need that soul may feel.
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