Help Grow Food For Street Kid's (Orphans)

Uganda as it was the case with the rest of the world was worst affected by the coronavirus especially among the rural poor  who live on hand to mouth to servive. When the government anounced total lockdown, locally known as OMUGALO, majority of the population were taken by suprise and we're trapped in doors. Hand to mouth is the only way of servival for most families in rural areas, and poor to get work on daily basis to be able to get bread on the table, that's what a poor man's life is; so if you lock them up you are actually making them live without food and this is the very reason the government was forced to try and get food distribution but this was not able to support  the entire population in the country.

The onset of COVID-19 also came along with new challenges especially to school children, the lockdown left many school children locked up at home where they met their abusers and most got abused and these includes our own supported children mostly. Also the street children we tried to keep at school in the boarding. Many of these have gone back to street life looking for food, and girls have gotten pregnancy and young boys into drugs and little ones working as harkers in small towns, these children were safe at the time schools were operating, and now these children have lost hope of ever going back to school since covid presented harsh conditions. The funds we received, visited their home's, streets and relatives to provide help, and mostly food, clothing and medical support. The only challenge we get is transportation costs to reach all these children to get them help, we hire car's, and motorcycle s commonly used and known as boda boda.

During this visits we noticed that material's given by government and radio lessons, others televised didn't help children in rural areas, for example, these children come from homes with no radios, electricity to have a television to follow study lessons from our capital City Kampala. The materials also distributed were not enough, this were delivered to the district education office and the parents, heads of schools go to pickup and give to their schools, and children. The cost of reproducing these materials wholly depended on the school to the parent's, we have tried to get these materials to cover all the  candidate students but the fund's are not enough to print for all the children.

Just like food distribution, government focused on the slums and municipality, and left out the rural areas at the same time, the disabled person's, were not considered during the lockdown, the information about coronavirus was not provided for such persons these includes children with disability, orphans and vulnerability. No food distribution were made for disabled people, and not such materials were given to say children who are blind, lockdown for example didn't get them to hospital for those with HIV Aids.

Today's, government is asking school's to allow girl's who got pregnant, or have delivered to be allowed to get back to school but no funds have been put aside to support such children and how to care for their little babies, do they bring them to school or live them at home.  We need nurseries open or built. Child care centers to help these abused girls 

Our NGO is requesting for volunteers, and support to be able to start a skills taring center for such children that covid situations have affected and give them opportunity to acquire some skills and training for self employed and relaince, this is the only way to help our rural and disadvantaged community in Pallisa.

Today nobody can underestimate the impact Covid has done to our communities, the number of children who have been orphaned, now called Covid orphans. This is the reality and these children are increasing in number each day and how do we support their education  needs. The reality is most covid orphans come from very poor households and are now in the streets or small towns looking for help for their siblings, as we speak there is hunger looming in the villages, people are struggling to get what to eat and homes who's heads have died of covid have left children with no options, and even where to sleep most homes have been abandoned and vacated. As you will see from the photos. 

Money distribution by government again didn't get to the rural areas, of one hundred thousand shillings for each household to use in fourty days during the lock down, people in Uganda heavily rely on farming on small scale just for domestic use, and because of effects of climate change now seen the rains and sunshine were not balanced to give local farmers good crop yields, this is the reason we have famine in most Eastern parts of the country.

Covid has also presented another challenge to school infrastructures, most classrooms need renovations to make it safe for the children , funds are needed to hire construction engineer to evaluate the safety of the classes before we get children in,  the government is doing the same for it's school's to avoid classes collapsing on the children causing death,

For our school, we need to consider, how to help our boarding children and now in the streets to be constricted dormitories to help give them a place to call home, and find help for covid orphans and now young mothers to get skills for self relaince, this means we build such a facility to support majority of rural children that coronavirus have greatly affected. Volunteers are welcome to suprt these children or directly come and help with this problem in Uganda. Free accommodation will be provided to international volunteers.

We apeal to all well wishers, our family of good donor's, and mostly the global Giving organization for the support they have given to poor  children and community in Uganda.

God bless you all.