INTRODUCTION

Can you partner with the guardians and other carers of the orphans of Kabubbu to help give them a future?

Winnie and her mother live in Kabubbu. When Winnie’s father died of AIDS in 1995 her mother was left with no income and six children to support. In 2001 Winnie’s mother was offered work managing a three-acre farm in Kabubbu some 85 km from where they then lived. She had to leave her other children with a friend and moved to Kabubbu with Winnie who is now being educated in Kabubbu Community Primary School. Her mother sends half of her monthly wage of £12 back home to feed her other children and pay for the school fees of four of them.

Betty’s mother was living and working in Kampala with her four children when her grandmother, who lives in Kabubbu, asked her to come and care for her in her old age. Although the move would take away her source of income she felt obliged to do so as her grandmother had raised her. Having moved, she had no money to pay for Betty or any of her other children to go to school. Her grandmother gave them a single room twelve feet by twelve feet to live in without any furniture or mattresses. Later, when her grandmother was dying, other relatives forced Betty and her mother out of their room fearing Betty’s mother would claim the house and they would lose their inheritance. Betty attends the Kabubbu Community Primary School and we have been able to arrange for Betty and her mother to be re-housed. We are also developing work initiatives so that Betty’s mother can earn an income to enable her to pay school fees for her other children to attend a school.

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