By Mugisha Leonard | Project Leader
This month we’re celebrating the extraordinary men in our community and honoring resilient men in our community who every day with great strength and desire, are improving their own lives and the lives of those around them.
One of those men is Logir, a father in Bungatira village, Northern Uganda, whose son fell gravely ill one evening. In that desperate moment, he realized that he didn’t have the cash to pay for the ride to the health center. His neighbor, hearing him cry out in despair, loaned him the money, and Logir was able to get his son to our Agonga health centre in time to save his life. The next day, our health workers noticed that Mr.Logir was in dire distress, and looked sad all the time.
Upon further interview by the clinician on duty, it was revealed that his problems were far from over. Over the course of days that followed, our health workers kept talking to him, encouraging him and after a few days this is what he had to say. “I’m 46 years old and married to two wives and I have 13 children. My second wife is pregnant with my 14th child. I have a difficult time because of this big family. Providing food, school fees, and caring for everyone is a permanent worry for me. I don’t even know where to get money to pay back my loan. At one time, it got so bad that I looked for a way out of the situation, and even contemplated abandoning my children or committing suicide.”
He continued, “hope came in at a training on family planning at the resource center in the facility that afternoon, which the health worker notified me about and highly encouraged me to attend. At the training, I learned that there are many ways to limit and plan for birth, depending on a couple’s choice. Thank God all my fears I had on family planning were answered. That’s why I would like to thank KCIU for helping me solve my problems and restoring my will to live.”
In our community, chronic poverty, repeated economic and environmental shocks, and poor health—includi ng lack of access to and use of modern contraceptives—contribute to recurring cycles of crisis. At KCIU, we are committed to change that by ensuring that our community gets access to basic health care including the right information on contraception. However, we can't do this a lone and that's why we need you! If you can, a small donation will facilitate a community health worker to carry out family planning lessons at our health facility!
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