Literacy and Knowledge

 The Power to think

Yesterday as i was walking home, i meet these two kids carrying 4 jerrycans of water slung across a big stick . Thoughts that ran into my head? I think they sat down and figured out how to carry all these jerrycans so that they will not have to go back more than one time and vala! they came up with a brilliant idea. This reminds me of a saying in our local language " Even if you said there is nothing you can do about a situation, you will always find a solution for this situation at the end of the day" And yes- God gives us brains to think.

The power of being Literate.

This patient goes for surgery and the surgeon accidentally leaves pieces of threads in her belly. She is discharged but later her condition worsens because of this. When she returns to tell the doctor what happened, the doctor talks to another doctor in English because they are sure she doesn't understand a single word in English. The doctor who is responsible never apologises to this woman because he knows that she is Illiterate so she wont actually sue him or say anything to any one else. She is sent home and told to come back next time. If this women was Literate , she would have demanded her rights as a patient, she would have made the doctor acknowledge his mistake , she would have sued the hospital for this and she would have been paid a lot of money in damages. 

But the doctor has the Power of being Literate , so he manipulates the situation and the woman didn't say anything to the Doctor because its assumed Doctors know everything and never make mistakes. She slowly walked home praying that God let her live because from the looks if it she wont probably make it.

My neighbor's kids and sex

Its 6pm as I open the gate to my house only to see the next door neighbor busy hitting her two children. I greet her and as am entering house, she informs me why she is hitting her kids ( not that i care to know).The kids are boy and girl and they are 5 and 4. So from the story, the" boy had sex with the girl" and they are sister and brother , so that is incest!! As she is spanking them , she keeps asking them " Why am I spanking you" and they kept replying " for doing bad stuff". So I wondered what bad stuff , these kids had done!! 

And how do you talk to a 5 year Old and a 4 year Old about sex instead of spanking them!!

If this parent had sat down with their child and imparted knowledge in their heads instead of spanking them, it would have made a difference, because am sure they have no idea why they were beaten !! and will probably remember sex as bad stuff even when they grow up !!

Come back

It's one of those days when i wonder why I remembered i had a blog and i thought to my self - i should write something on it , just so that whoever reads it knows am still alive. Oh Yes! am and loving the Bounties that God blesses me with every day. I have started volunteering at the babies home in Iganga again and oh how the children have grown. ( The two babies am holding in my laps on my Blog were sent to another home for older children . I feel bad , i did not say good bye to them. The ones that were a few months old, are now toddlers . Why do i go there, because i like spending time with children.

An unknown Loss

A few days ago i called my former work place to talk to one of my favourite woman and i was told that she died of Throat Cancer and they buried her 2 months ago. This left me wondering how such a thing could happen and i was never told and then it dawned on me that not every one can acess a phone and then i thought may be if i had gone to visit regularly , I would have known , so for now i intend to visit all my friends who do not own phones regularly.

The New year

Happy new year ! to my self and to every one. I guess every new year comes with hope and the yearning to do something new and different. what do i want to do different? A lot but i know all depends on God and what he wants you to do, so this year am going to be the one he desires me to be. The last year has been a hard one for me and some times i have had to make very difficult decisions but what to do when a lot is at stake. I will have to come up with more solutions to very cross- cutting issues both at work and outside work. Sometimes when a lot is going on , you wonder whether you alone are in the world. Guess some people have it easy, so i hope i h ave it easy this year.

updates

Guess i have spent like months with out writting anything at all, why i do not have a particular reason but i have just been busy. A lot has happened in the past few months , i might not even remember everything, but it is almost the rainy season and all the farmers are getting ready to plant their crops.

Work is going on with my women that i work withand i will meet them again the end of this month. We have a village bank and it is amazing to see these women come to the bank all the time to get loans, they are farmers but they are not afraid to get the loans and i have seen lives improve so much. Guess if we want change in africa, we should empower the women first , that is the way to go.

Last time i went to an HIV clinic and i saw 100 children who were positive and they had already started taking their Antiretrovial medicine , i wondered at what was happening in this country , such is a big number and they all looked calm and had accepted what ever life had given them.It hurt me so much i just did not know what to do, God we surely need a miracle , i pray that you heal all those children.

what should i say!

blogging, its been a long time! why! i dont know! life has been a little bit upside down, got sick with malaria, had busy days and had fun working with women and children, thats what i do for life. Amazing how small things change people's lives and how they appreciate the little things that you do for them, i have been busy selling baskets made by women here and at the end of the day, i will give them back the money, you should see the smiles on their faces and the questions they will ask, is this my money and you go , yes! , what are you going to do with the money , she replies , i will take my child to school or i will take them to hospital or buy them a cup of milk, these are things that we take for granted at times, but they matter a lot.
Or the smile of a child when you tell them that you now have some one to help pay school fees for you, the relief they get is not imaginable any where else, those are the things that matter most in life.
am now in masaka full time and i surely miss my friends, church and family but i have a family here that love me and cares about me a lot.

God's ways and life frustrations

The past few weeks have not been that easy for me, my friend lost a son and he died in his sleep. life is so short you never know whats coming next, that makes me wonder why we spend so much time working and yet we will leave everything. God rest his soul in eternal peace , hope to see you again some day and may he strengthen us your mums so much and may he bless us with other children that look like you. we love and miss you so much.

This week not good at all, a lot happening, have you ever wanted to say something so much but then you can not say it because when you tell people you are scared they will not keep it to them selves, thats the life i live right now, God knows how long this will have to be .
Have you ever wanted things t to change so much in life but then they do not? what would you do?
God keeps on blessing me with new friends everyday and they are really interesting people. i have a room mate who is actually not my room mate but i do not like calling her name, i have AK 47 who is so interesting and the list goes on and on