The Visit

As promised, yesterday we were able to visit the communities of interest to us and we found things that shocked us and we believe will be shocking to you as well. Life deals us all so many hands and sometimes we feel we are unlucky. But truth be told, we may Be unlucky but others are 'unluckier' and we need to seriously lend a helping hand to them. seriously and urgently.

There are a a few observations that we would have to share with you. The first of these is that some the communities we visited were so poor that their chiefs had made them orphan communities. What we mean by this is that the chiefs of these communities do not reside in these communities. they have left the communities and are residing elsewhere primarily because these communities are too poor to be able to provide enough to satisfy them. This revelation was indeed an eye opener.

Also we observed a general lack of job opportunities in the places we visited. generally these communities were farming ones that had no other source of income. So when the farming season was off, the resorted to doing manual jobs in the cities, just lazing about or in extreme cases armed robbery. One individual told me plainly and frankly that us has to rob just to eat so he is very polite about it.

The most striking observation we made was that these communities were still living life as if it was in the 1950's. It was almost as if we had been transported by a time machine back into time. The buildings, the lifestyle and even the food looked at least seventy years old. the was a very real disconnect between life as we know it and what we saw. And that underscored severely the need for helping hands.

For us, our concern is the youth and the children. These are the future of those communities. we are working on strategies to improve their lives and you will surely hear from us very soon.

Till then keep being helping hands.