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Patience needs our help! - She is paralysed, penniless and almost alone.

    UBU e.V.
    A project from UBU e.V. in Kabale, Uganda
    Patience, the 17 year old girl without means in a village near Kabale needs our support. Patience is paraplegic and lives there with her elderly grandmother. We want to improve the lives of both of them in the long term. Please help us!

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    About this project

    Siegbert Garisch from UBU e.V. is responsible for this project
    Patience (17) is paraplegic.
    Her mother died when she was very young, her father also disappeared quickly, so that her grandmother, with whom she now lives, did not even know her father.
    She lives with her now elderly grandmother in a hut in a village in the middle of the mountains, where she can only be reached on foot.
    The two of them are completely destitute - they have no income whatsoever; they are totally dependent on the goodwill of their fellow human beings.
    Patience was in primary school until grade 5. She was about 11, 12 years old. Then she fell ill and has been paraplegic ever since. 
    Her grandmother has two sons. 
    Sometimes they come over, usually drunk and when they have nothing left. 
    Patience is afraid of them. She then hides in the bushes. With her paralysis she then crawls across the ground. When they come at night, the fear is especially great - because there are also snakes and other animals everywhere - it is all very scary.
    Patience wants to become a hairdresser. In Uganda, that usually means that you can braid hair, plaits. If you are good, you can create true "miracles of braiding art" on your head. Patience is really good at everything you can do with your hands. 
    Her dream is that when she is really good, the women will come to her and have their hair braided and she will get paid for it.
    Patience is visited regularly by our partner organisation in Uganda (DSW).
    This helps her immensely. 
    She got a wheelchair through DSW. She likes to use it around the house. Now she doesn't always have to sit on the ground, in the grass. DSW has also provided her with a lot of training material for hair braiding and Christine has already been able to teach her many tricks of the trade.
    DSW has now worked with Patience and her grandmother on measures to improve their living situation in the long term:
    Granny and Patience do not have decent places to sleep:
    Granny sleeps on a mat on the bare floor. This is hard and all her bones ache.
    Patience has a wooden bed frame, but no mattress, no real mosquito protection. everything is really very poor and inhumane-. 
    Both should get real beds with mattresses and bedding!
    The fields around the hut are not tilled.
    That should change. 
    The two women can no longer plough and hoe, but they can harvest and process fruit. Then they would have something to eat again and wouldn't have to beg all the time. 
    What the women can no longer do should be done by paid workers from the village.
    The toilet house for the two women is about 100 m away in a corner of the property.
    This is to be changed as well, because it is very difficult for both women to reach the toilet house.
    A new toilet house is to be built near the house.
    The toilet is to be constructed in such a way that it can also be used by Patience with her paralysis.

    ALL this costs money.
    Please help us with this!


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