„Come and see what our friends from the Congo have sent us! You have to see this to understand why we can't go home.“ Our workers on the ADRA farm in Uganda called out to me.
The guys huddled by the corn field, discussing heatedly around their cell phones. „This happened to us this week, look!“ The video showed brutal footage of some paramilitary rebel group holding people tied up on the ground and executing them with machetes. Confusion, lots of screaming and blood... „I'm sorry, but I really can't and don't want to watch this,“ I tried to dodge reality, because I really wouldn't give in to this. Kambele, one of our employees on the farm who had also fled the Congo, was particularly upset. „This is exactly how they killed my brother. But I managed to escape here with my family. Do you understand now what is happening to us? How could we go back there?“ Others joined in. A heavy debate ensued about the injustice and painful plight of the refugees. More than 123,000 of them live in this area of Kyaka II alone, mostly from the Congo...
Kambele happily crossed the border into Uganda with his family and was given a small plot of land where he built a makeshift dwelling. However, his wife soon disappeared in the refugee camp under mysterious circumstances and he was left alone with two young boys - Misaka is 4 and Israeli is 7. While he goes to work, the boys were left home alone. So we invited them to the farm and since then they have been playing at our table every day and have been guests at our table along with the other workers.
And his dream? „Help me so that I can send my boys to a church boarding school, so that they can have a secure living and education, because here in the refugee camp they have no chance...“ There are schools here, which are taken care of by various NGOs, but the conditions for education are very poor. Parents are eager to send their children to boarding schools where they will receive accommodation, food, clothing, education and upbringing. This is a chance to give refugee children a future. What a person is a story, and there are many very sad ones here. On Saturday morning, however, the Kambele and the boys dressed up festively and invited us to a service in their makeshift church, which the Congolese and Rwandan refugees had built with their own hands.
On the way to our farm, we pass by the registration centre every day, where hundreds of other refugees arrive daily or are brought in by buses. Yesterday, 10 buses arrived...
The situation is really bleak and it is not getting any better, quite the opposite. That is why we have come here from Slovakia. We give people seeds, seedlings, work tools and teach them on the farm how to grow as many vegetables, legumes and cereals as possible in their small plots so that they can feed their own families.
The FOUR project is implemented with the financial support of Slovak AID in cooperation with our partner ADRA Uganda. You too can join our humanitarian mission and support concrete aid for the people living in this area.
You can also support our help for these people by making a charity purchase in our Helpshope .
ADRA Slovakia has set up a separate account SK65 8330 0000 0020 0179 0154 for this project.
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