THE PEARL OF AFRICA
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In 1906 in his book 'My African Journey' Winston Churchill called Uganda 'The Pearl of Africa'. And it was. But since then and particularly during the 1960's and 1970's under the regimes of Presidents Idi Amin and Milton Obote the pearl lost its lustre. And it has been struggling to find a new future for itself from those terrible years of devastation.
Landlocked Uganda sits across the equator. It is about the same land area as the UK and has a population of over 30,000,000. It is a population racked with AIDS. Tens of thousands of people die from this disease each year and for many years now the country has been recognised as the worldwide epicentre of AIDS.
Over 5% of the children in Uganda are living without a future. In Kabubbu alone there are more than 400 impoverished orphans. Is this a hopeless situation or can something be done? Can you make a difference?
Among the population of Uganda, there are over 1,500,000 children who have been orphaned because their parents have died of AIDS or the HIV virus. Some have one parent remaining, although in most cases this parent is also ill with AIDS or the HIV virus with only a short amount of life left to live and a large family to bring up and support.
