Children born with a cleft lip experience beside medical also big social consequences, like stigmatisation and superstition. CCA helps these children with, among others, access to medical care.

The CCA project “Strong together” teaches young girls and women who have a distance to the job market, new skills with which they can make a living in a decent way and can move ahead on their own. In February 35 vulnerable girls and women took part in a training in making beads and jewellery of old paper.

Christine is the first born in a family of 3 girls. She is 7 years old and lives in Aqwalinga, a small village in Amudat district. Christine’s parents are raised in extreme poverty and did not succeed in offering a better life to their children. They are both addicted to alcohol. The couple rise late in the morning, tries to gather some fire wood and sells this in the neighbouring town. The proceeds are mostly spent in the local bar. Meanwhile their daughters of 7, 5, and 1 year old are at home together.

In September 2020 we published an article about help to children with a cleft lip in Uganda. The last months a lot has happened. Two children, Samuel en Louda, have had surgery now and have recovered beautifully. 10 Other children with a cleft lip are waiting for surgery.

Our sponsor students have not much time for homework outside school hours. They help in housekeeping, work on the land or take care of their little brothers and sisters. In the evening they have time but there is no light….. Schools too are scarcely lightened in the evening.