The Children's Village exists in a wider community, and each year UgaIrish attempts to provide a little support to some of the poorest members of
that community, many of whom eke out an existence in huts in the "bush", at the edges of rich farmland where maize, coffee, bananas and pineapple are grown.
We buy food in bulk and divide it out into food parcels of flour, rice, beans and oil, with soap, matches, candles etc, and bring the parcels, along with clothes brought
from home, on budda-buddas. Initially the journey is on the local roads, dusty and cratered, but soon veers off to tracks between and through the fields. Loose contact with the
group and you might never find your way home!
This year as the group was so large it was decided to do two separate trips, one on each of the Sundays that we were there. Each trip was accompanied by Apollo and a pastor from one of the
local churches.
