Life for a Ugandan is difficult

Here in Uganda, the poverty and the need is so great that it can be quite overwhelming. When driving down the road, you see small, one bedroom houses, with several people living in them, children with tattered clothing, without shoes, and women cooking over a small fire outside their homes.  The houses are so small that most everything is done on the outside of the home.

In the market, you see several vendors next to each other all competing and trying to make a living by selling the same jewelry, craft items, clothes, and produce, that they all worked so hard to make or grow and in return the income is so small.

In the city, you see children, babies, blind and disabled people coming up to your car window begging for money for food. It is difficult to look pass them as they come by your vehicle.

Living in Uganda and seeing this kind of poverty every day, is still so hard to comprehend that this is what life is really like for the people here since there situations are so extreme.

In America, it is so easy to get caught up in our own life and your own troubles and forget about the rest of the world and we don’t realize what they are facing each day. Also, we are not used to seeing dire situations on a regular basis in America but here in Uganda, these people are faced with death, sickness, disease, starvation, and extreme poverty every day!

Since the need is so great, our desire is to reach out in love one person at a time. There are many ways that you can get involved and partner with Show Mercy so that together, we can make a greater impact by investing into people’s lives by giving them the tools and resources they need to change their situation.  

One way you can partner with us is through sponsorship. We met a little boy named Joseph on Saturday, at our “Say No to Hunger” program that is in need of a sponsor.  He is about 7 years old and is a total orphan that lives with his grandmother. He currently has a skin infection and jiggers under his toes.

It is because of people like you, working together that we are able to make a difference! Please visit www.showmercy.org for more information on how you can get involved and help bring change in someone’s life!