Me and Serena have been supporting Ugandan orphans lately. I’m not sure how it began really. Just a random friend request one night to Serena from a lady in Pakistan and then a guy from India and then a guy from Uganda and then a lady from Uganda. All have hands out constantly with needs. I even picked another one up today and a would be one waiting in the wings and it’s exhausting. So far I have built two orphan websites and set up payment gateways for people to donate and also as an insentive I donated the book to raise funds. Then I started a givealttle page for good measure. We even try selling things at the markets in the weekend. I keep posting the needs of orphans on Facebook and wherever I can and it’s brought very little in the way of funding so we have mostly been supporting these people from the benefit and whatever we can scrape together. I didn’t realize fundraising was so hard and that their are so many people in need. I mean I knew they were there but not in front of me. Then today I was short of money. We went to the winz office to see if we could get some help with an overdue phone bill. While we were there this lady with a child was so stressed out and she was sent to a charity instead of being helped there. I wanted to give her half of what we had left in the bank which we needed but she needed more urgently. We were also sent to snt Vincents with cap in hand and me the lady there again also in tears as she was comforted by staff. We waited and eventually the lady was taken to another room to get the help she needed. We were told to come back the next day as we were at the end of the day and they had a narrow time slot for grant’s to help with bills. We almost left but the distraught lady had parked her car right in front of someone else who could no longer get out. I took the hand brake of and pushed it a bit so she could back out. Then a child says Hi from the back seat and gives me a freight. Just moving the car a bit I say. Mum will be out soon. We got back home and one of our Ugandan people has to go to hospital so we drain our bank account for her and a friend who I helped sell something on trade for him transferred the same amount into my bank as I had just sent out.It’s strange how it all works out in the end. But I’m also aware that so many more do not get help and die from famine, war and disease. I can’t help them all. But at least I can say I helped some.
