refugees daily.
Love can be shared by spending
quality time with someone. By a
phone call. Or an email. Or a card.
Love can be shared with flowers. Or
chocolate. Or a present at Christmas.
Love can be shared by keeping a
promise. Or with a smile.
Love can be shared by helping with
household work and daily runs.
Love can be shared by giving a hug.
Even if that hug can only be an e-hug.
How else can love can be shared?
Love can be shared by investing into
the life of a child who has fled
violence, so that that child has a hot
meal on arrival and through their
time at Kiryandongo, a refugee camp
in Uganda, one of many camps for
over 93,000 refugees who have
arrived in Uganda from South Sudan
since the crisis started in December
2013.
Kiryandogo alone receives 300 to 400
The first 30 days in which refugees
arrive are crucial to enable them
settle, and get some form of healing
from the arduous traumatising
journey they have just been through.
There is a huge need. Resources are
over stretched.
Feed the Hungry, an international
charity has established 7 feeding
programs in schools in response to
the Government of Uganda’s request
for help.
Feed the Hungry has also established
that about half of the South
Sudanese refuges are children, and in
the 7 feeding programs, they feed
over 8,000 children a day.
A good meal will help a child begin to
feel a sense of self again as he or she
learns to navigate and settle in the
new environment.
In how many ways can we say love
can be shared?
Find out more at:
https://feedthehungry.org.uk
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