This time for the ‘Kabubbu Kids’ in Uganda.
 
On 10 September, Andrew Lightbown, Rector of St Laurence, Winslow, is Prayer Walking 12 miles of the Ridgeway from Wendover to Ivinghoe Beacon for Kabubbu, the village in Uganda Quicken Trust supports. George Hooper, Churchwarden, will be walking with him.
 
 
Andrew has supported Kabubbu for many years. He writes, ‘Times are far from ‘normal.’ I want to introduce you to a charity that is very close to my heart: Quicken Trust. Before training for ordination, I served as a Quicken Trust trustee, visiting Kabubbu a dozen times. 
 
Over the last 20 or so years, Quicken Trust has raised funds to build a primary school, a secondary school, a health centre, and an orphanage, as well as investing in agricultural projects and income generation initiatives. It has helped a rural community to make the decisive shift towards sustainability. However, the sad reality is that rural communities in countries such as Uganda are inherently fragile. When disease and famine arrives, starvation, malnutrition and death increases exponentially.
 
Uganda is currently in lockdown. This means that the farmers can’t trade. There is nowhere to store their crops and, because most homes have no electricity or clean water, food storage is well nigh impossible. Life for the people of Kabubbu is unbearably hard; starvation and COVID-induced death are its twin imposters.
 
For the people of Kabubbu, there are no government bailouts, subsides, foodbanks, or furlough schemes. When your neighbour is also living below the bread line, life is extraordinarily hard.’
 
‘What does love look like? It has hands to help others. It has feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of all. That is what love looks like.’