Sunday 17 May 2020
Monday 4 May 2020
Covid19 Help Feed 5000 in Uganda
You can watch a short little video showing a small window into our life in Uganda on the day we heard about the first covid case back on 21st March. We were already having some restrictions...no school, no transport. no church or large gatherings. Flights needed to be arranged from EDRC back to Uganda for passengers hoping to make the last flights available out of Uganda before borders closed. Currently Uganda now has 55 cases (6/4/20), flights have all been discontinued, private cars are not allowed to be used without special permission, only food markets are allowed to be open but workers are required to stay on site for 2 weeks possibly more, and gatherings larger than 5 are not allowed.
My kids are busy working at home with online school but feeling the globally felt disappointment of end of school year trips, proms and graduation being cancelled and not knowing if they'll be allowed to say goodbye to friends in person before seniors leave the country. Comforting factors have been still being able to walk and see Ugandans greet us and each other even if from a distance...hearing our local neighbours having time together as families...having at least 2 of my 3 daughters close-by and enjoying rare quality time together, catching up on all of the things we never have time to do, knowing we can be on standby to help the local community when we're needed as the effect of livelihoods being frozen takes hold. In the lull of life suddenly slowing down in some respects, although not for Greg or my girls who are working even harder its seems online, I decided to take on a crazy challenge of attempting to Feed 5000. I think I was in a dreamlike state when I put the challenge out there, but watching friends around the world and donorsee donating has been the reason we've managed to feed almost 4,000 people to date. It has been a miracle watching the world stepping up to help us even though the entire world has been hit by lockdowns and impacted in one way or another.
Initially we were hoping that Uganda was quick enough to hem the passengers who first brought Covid19 over its borders and that the cases soon would recover and decline but more cases have unfortunately come in over this landlocked country's borders and so cases have risen to over 200. The damage to the population has not been so much from the virus but just from the tight restrictions that have carried on for 7 long weeks. The poor don't have safety nets. No livelihoods means no food.
We are praying also for the rest of the world to soon see this tide ebb, for solutions to be found by all of the brilliant minds across the globe that are working 24/7 to help this happen and for the phenomenal medical workers that have been soldiering on tirelessly.
Praying that our world changes in a good way from this trial we have all been in together and that we turn our hearts to God and ask for His healing touch on all of our nations both physically and spiritually.
My kids are busy working at home with online school but feeling the globally felt disappointment of end of school year trips, proms and graduation being cancelled and not knowing if they'll be allowed to say goodbye to friends in person before seniors leave the country. Comforting factors have been still being able to walk and see Ugandans greet us and each other even if from a distance...hearing our local neighbours having time together as families...having at least 2 of my 3 daughters close-by and enjoying rare quality time together, catching up on all of the things we never have time to do, knowing we can be on standby to help the local community when we're needed as the effect of livelihoods being frozen takes hold. In the lull of life suddenly slowing down in some respects, although not for Greg or my girls who are working even harder its seems online, I decided to take on a crazy challenge of attempting to Feed 5000. I think I was in a dreamlike state when I put the challenge out there, but watching friends around the world and donorsee donating has been the reason we've managed to feed almost 4,000 people to date. It has been a miracle watching the world stepping up to help us even though the entire world has been hit by lockdowns and impacted in one way or another.
Initially we were hoping that Uganda was quick enough to hem the passengers who first brought Covid19 over its borders and that the cases soon would recover and decline but more cases have unfortunately come in over this landlocked country's borders and so cases have risen to over 200. The damage to the population has not been so much from the virus but just from the tight restrictions that have carried on for 7 long weeks. The poor don't have safety nets. No livelihoods means no food.
We are praying also for the rest of the world to soon see this tide ebb, for solutions to be found by all of the brilliant minds across the globe that are working 24/7 to help this happen and for the phenomenal medical workers that have been soldiering on tirelessly.
Praying that our world changes in a good way from this trial we have all been in together and that we turn our hearts to God and ask for His healing touch on all of our nations both physically and spiritually.
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