Women and Elderly Support Mission

In the Ugandan culture, women are facing the hardest aspects of life. They are responsible for all the house work, for providing for their families and raising the children. In Uganda, men have to pay for their brides and once the payment is done, they consider their duty done and they don’t have to do anything else in the homes. Therefore, most of the women remain with no support from their husband in what comes to home responsibility. After marriage, their life becomes hard, many are abused or completely abandoned by their husbands who depart to bigger cities for work, but in actual sense they do not send a penny back home for their wives and children. A bag of posho (polenta), a pair of shoes, a blanket are such simple things for us but such important items for these women.

Living in remote areas as an elder means you do not have access to medical services, you live at the mercy of neighbors because providing food is very challenging. The elders can no longer go to work in agriculture or other segments in order to provide an income. We visit many elders who have no one to look after them. They are sleeping on floors, or on beds made of tree branches and their houses are of clay.