ADOPT-A-GRANNY (OR A GRANDAD)

This programme is to help those so often left with their orphaned grandchildren.

Old age in Kabubbu has none of the State benefits that we receive in the UK. There is no State Pension, Housing Benefit or any other form of support. In fact your ‘pension’ is your children because they are supposed to look after you in your old age. However, if your children have died of the HIV virus, AIDS, malaria or other tropical disease they cannot help you and, moreover, you end up looking after your children’s children, your grandchildren.

Often you become too old or infirm to tend your vegetables to provide your food. You cannot get to the well to collect water and even if you could you don’t have the strength to carry 20 litres of water all the way back home. And you have no income to provide for essentials like salt, cooking and lighting oil, healthcare and so on.

For just £16 per month (€24 / US$32) through ‘Adopt-a-Granny’ you can support them with basic foods, healthcare, lamp and cooking oil, someone to collect their water and the occasional treat of a piece of meat.

TO Adopt a Granny or Grandad click here