There are so many things that I can remember to write about. However, when I sit down to write I get this writer's block! Where do we begin.
When I first went to Uganda the thing that really tugged at my heart was the children, their conditions for living and physical health, the lack of education, the lack of love they receive and care. I wish I had time to go and hug and give love to every little kid there is and even the big ones!!!
I spent a lot of time giving baths to little kids when I first got there. I bought this big plastic tub called a basin and would fill it with the big yellow jerry cans and give them baths. It seemed to me that none of them ever bathed! There were little critters to deal with also! Critters like body lice and jiggers. Jiggers are little bity red critters that dig under the skin - mainly on the feet around the toes. They have to be dug out very carefully so that you do not break them and cause a bunch more little ones to spread. They are a lot like ticks. After they dig into the skin they swell up from sucking blood and they itch and hurt at the same time.
Then there was shaving off hair that was unkept. The children seemede to really love the care and attention that they never seemed to get. Even little kids go and get their own water and have to carry it. Then when they get done bathing they go back and play in the dirt and unfortunately most of them have to sleep in the dirt. If you consider that the homes or huts they live in are made of sticks and mud with grass roofs and the floors are dirt. The floors are smeared with cow dung and left to dry to make it hard, but this seems very unhealthy to me. The kitchens are made of the same and have three stones with fire wood in the middle of the stones for cooking on.
I feel for the children in Uganda and I know that they need more care and more love and I ask for your prayers as I continue to love on them and help them and reach out with them with the love that our God gives to them.
Every day children die from malnutrition or malaria from lack of care or someone to look after them. Help Hines Ugandan Ministries to make a difference - checkout our website www.hineskids.
"Religion that God considers pure and perfect is this - one that looks after orphans and widows in their distress and keeps oneself pure before the world." James 1:27
"Whoever welcomes even one of these little ones in my name welcomes me." Matthew 18:5
When I first went to Uganda the thing that really tugged at my heart was the children, their conditions for living and physical health, the lack of education, the lack of love they receive and care. I wish I had time to go and hug and give love to every little kid there is and even the big ones!!!
I spent a lot of time giving baths to little kids when I first got there. I bought this big plastic tub called a basin and would fill it with the big yellow jerry cans and give them baths. It seemed to me that none of them ever bathed! There were little critters to deal with also! Critters like body lice and jiggers. Jiggers are little bity red critters that dig under the skin - mainly on the feet around the toes. They have to be dug out very carefully so that you do not break them and cause a bunch more little ones to spread. They are a lot like ticks. After they dig into the skin they swell up from sucking blood and they itch and hurt at the same time.
Then there was shaving off hair that was unkept. The children seemede to really love the care and attention that they never seemed to get. Even little kids go and get their own water and have to carry it. Then when they get done bathing they go back and play in the dirt and unfortunately most of them have to sleep in the dirt. If you consider that the homes or huts they live in are made of sticks and mud with grass roofs and the floors are dirt. The floors are smeared with cow dung and left to dry to make it hard, but this seems very unhealthy to me. The kitchens are made of the same and have three stones with fire wood in the middle of the stones for cooking on.I feel for the children in Uganda and I know that they need more care and more love and I ask for your prayers as I continue to love on them and help them and reach out with them with the love that our God gives to them.
Every day children die from malnutrition or malaria from lack of care or someone to look after them. Help Hines Ugandan Ministries to make a difference - checkout our website www.hineskids.
"Religion that God considers pure and perfect is this - one that looks after orphans and widows in their distress and keeps oneself pure before the world." James 1:27
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