By Alison Hall MBE | Founder of Seeds for Development
Hello
You can’t have missed all the talk about climate change – on the news, in the papers, online, on the streets. It is everywhere and in April, during our recent trip to visit the projects, we saw first hand the devastating impact it is having on the poorest people in northern Uganda and especially the children.
Our porridge is quite literally saving lives at the moment and we couldn’t do it without your kindness and generosity – thank you so much.
We were visiting the schools in April and saw for ourselves what so many people are writing and talking about – how climate change is having such a terrible impact on the people who can do nothing about it.
The rain should have started in March, but by the end of April it still hadn’t come. In fact it didn’t start properly raining until nearly the end of May. This meant that the farmers couldn’t plant their seeds in March when they normally do. This means that their crops won’t be ready until the end of August, when they should be ready in June. And this means that they don’t have any food and can’t afford to buy any as the prices go rocketing sky high. Normally the farmers store enough food and can live off crops like Cassava during the dry season and until they start having some crops in the rainy season. But we saw that they were running dangerously low on supplies. You can see the impact of this in the photo of the children with their big bulging tummies – a sure sign of malnutrition and hunger.
There is also a very real danger from wild bush fires that tear through villages and homes destroying everything in their path.
Our porridge is probably the only food that the children in our nursery schools will have all day long. Without your kindness and generosity we wouldn’t be able to keep on providing porridge for them. The number of children attending the nursery schools is increasing – mainly because we give them porridge every day – and so our costs are increasing every month.
We can all do our bit to save our planet and, THANKS TO YOU, we are able to do our bit to give the youngest children a better start in life with a nice big cup of porridge every day.
Thank you for your support, it keeps us going in more ways than you can imagine.
Alison
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