About 250,000 people live in the Bidi-Bidi refugee camp. This is one of the biggest camps in the world. Life in the camp is hard. Some have a small vegetable garden, and they are trying to grow something to survive. Some make clay bricks, burn them, and then sell them to earn an extra penny.
In the camp is a market where people are trying to sell something in order to buy additional food. Others save money to go to the city. A trip on a private motorcycle costs about $20 and for most, it is impossible to pay! The road from the camp to the city is rocky, there is no asphalt and that’s why it’s hard to get there.
It is especially hard for widows who raise children alone and do not know how to feed them. They are still lacking food, although no one is dying of starvation. Vicki became a widow many years ago. Her husband, a former military man, was found murdered in his own house. She takes care of the children as best she can. After she got in a car accident while sitting on the back of a truck, she hurt her arm so severe that it had to be amputated!
After meeting with Vicki, we promised to help her with the prosthesis and to buy her a mechanical sewing machine. Vicki traveled with us when we returned from Moyo to the capital, Kampala. The next day, she was already seeing a doctor at the Hospital. Before we met her, she was in despair, thinking that she had been abandoned by God, but now, through your participation, God takes special care of her heart! Thank you very much!
Ministry in Uganda – Willi Dueck