Many children have to leave their villages to attend school. Often the schools are very poor. And even the ability to own a bar of soap is not in the budget. Today Sylvia traveled 70 km North of Kampala with two young moms from the soap workshop and one young mom from the sewing workshop. They were able to share their own stories of being pregnant and having to leave school and finding Suubi.
After her talk, Tawiyah was able to measure the boys and girls for school uniforms. The sewing workshop will make these uniforms. Sylvia told me that Tawiyah is a good teacher. Her parents kicked her out of the house when she got pregnant. And she went to live with her grandmother. But the grandmother was very poor. She started to learn soap making but switched to sewing. And now she has the opportunity to encourage other teenagers. Some of the girls in this school are pregnant and do not know what the future holds. Suubi hopes to open a training center in this area.
The poor actually give more than the rich by percentage of income. I just read an article about that. The reason the poor give more is the poor are more compassionate and sensitive to the needs of others. They have also felt a need. They have walked in those shoes. It is easy for them to imagine what it is like. And maybe that is the chief reason why it is good for us to go there too. If we never see the poverty we write small checks. But if we go, we work a little harder to give. I hope to go to Uganda again in May. We will graduate our first class from sewing school. I am proud of our women. They are taking their skills to the slums and villages to give back. And you can never really be poor as long as you give.
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