Viola’s Story

Viola lives in the slums of Kampala, Uganda with her parents and five siblings. Living conditions in this area are cramped and unsanitary. Viola’s family lives in a small, brick, two-bedroom house. The whole family shares one room and the other one is used to house chickens and a goat that are being raised to sell. 

When the lockdown measures hit the world this spring, each of our programs had to pivot from their normal services at schools, churches and community centers, and venture out with more home visits to care for our children. This cost a bit more, but we knew it was what we needed to do. 

Viola is one of the children our team in Uganda visited. During one of the home visits, we realized that Viola and her siblings were sleeping almost on bare ground. They were sleeping on thin, dirty, browned pieces of pad that had to be put together for one to sleep on, along with torn-up blankets that can hardly bring warmth in the cold.

Our staff realized Viola was one of the children who, whenever they got the chance to meet up with her, either had a cough or flu,  and if not, she was complaining of back and body pains. This could have been a result of the poor sleeping conditions. 

Our Uganda team got together and decided to get two mattresses and three blankets for the family. 

Our Uganda team reports, “The joy, gratitude, and tears in their eyes when receiving the beds and blankets was worth a memory in our hearts and they now sleep comfortably like they should.” 

God used this pandemic to lead our staff to Viola’s home where they discovered this serious need for a real bed. God reached out to Viola with His tangible love not just in spite of this horrible season,  but through it

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Hola (hello), my name is Fernanda Michel

  • location

    Mexico

  • 13 yrs. old

    04-04-2012

Entered the Program: February 2025

Fernanda Michel (who goes by Michel) lives with her grandmother, great-grandmother and two single aunts in a two-room adobe house with a tin roof and concrete and dirt floors. They all share one bedroom and use the other room as a kitchen. They cook with wood and have access to water from a hose on their property. The bathroom is outdoors. The home has suffered some damage due to earthquakes.

Michel’s mother was a single parent and she made the decision to leave Michel under her mother’s care in order to find a better life in Mexico City. She left in 2019 and Michel has seen her only twice since.

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