No matter how well planned our weeks are, we never really know from week to week just how life is going to play out. There would rarely be a week where everything goes as expected. This week, several families we’ve begun working with were thrown a bit of a curve ball. They, along with the rest of their fishing village community of around 500 were evicted as the land they had rented and built temporary dwellings on had been sold. They were told they had two days to find somewhere else to live, yet some had their houses and belongings destroyed in less than one. Leaving many with no home, no belongings and no job. Most were given a payment of between $5-$35 if they stood at the doorway of their home to identify it, then had to watch as it was knocked down without even the ability to go in and retrieve their few belongings. So it’s been a busy week working with our team as they help families process what has happened and look for ways to move forward and rise above their situation.
Putting his family’s house back together after destruction was halted and more time was granted
Sometimes helping looks like our team getting together to buy a van full of charcoal to support a family’s new business… enabling them to build a new temporary home in a neighbouring village, sometimes it’s helping someone find the support of extended family, lobbying land developers for more time to relocate families or just being there to listen and show that we’re in this together. Sometimes it’s a community banding together in a difficult time to provide food for a mentally ill mother. It is many shades of different and unexpected and messy and beautiful all together.
Jed and Charlotte tried to make a new pet of this prehistoric looking critter they found in the yard – needless to say, it didn’t really enjoy being in captivity so is now happily roaming free again!
An hour just to get across one road thanks to a truck that had jack-knifed. Tried hard not to envy all those that were travelling via taxi and could get out and walk. Eight hours driving made for a long day but had a great time meeting with another organisation doing similar work to us, so all was good!
Sweet little faces that always stop to watch and wave as we enter or leave our home.
Fun Easter celebrations with some wonderful Entebbe families. We all chipped in to hire a bouncy waterslide from Kampala. The kids had a ball! despite it collapsing on them twice before breaking.
The guys playing ‘cornhole’ while ladies chatted round the coffee pot and cake table and the kids played – perfect way to spend an afternoon!
On the hunt for eggs…
So thankful for this amazing bunch of ladies!
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