Dear friends,
An update from our facilitator:
One of our cows that I named in the village with the children is not doing well and her baby has not survived. Pray that she can survive.
“We were in Nyakishenyi last weekend. Every one wanted to hear from you.. I conveyed your love and greetings to them. They are looking forward to seeing you again.
The projects are doing well but some have some challenges. Robert’s cow gave birth and both the mother and baby are doing well. He is getting 10 liters of milk a day and he is so excited and very grateful. The family is enjoying the milk and selling some. She is the only cow in Nyakishenyi that gives 10 liters of milk a day!! Collin’s cow is pregnant and he is expecting a calf in the near future. The third cow is not yet pregnant. Star gave birth but she is not doing well. She did not have milk. The calf therefore could not survive. She too is not in good health. She is under treatment and our prayers.
The goats are doing well. Most of them have produced twins. The committee will soon start distributing the pass-ons to other members. They had not counted the number of the new borns and I will give you details some time later.
The chickens are doing well but not as at first. There is great famine in our area and most people have nothing to eat. They depend on buying food from the market/food stores. As a result, most of them failed to raise money to purchase layers mash. So the chickens are feeding on ordinary food and the egg production is low. The profit they had made from the first eggs was not enough to maintain the family and the chickens. They needed extra income. This has become a big challenge. Even the eggs produced have no market because people now cannot afford to buy eggs when there is no food. They cannot depend on eggs. They would rather buy maize meal and other food stuffs than buying eggs. This has become a big challenge.
You cannot believe that one cannot find a bunch of bananas in our banana plantation. We could not find even a banana to buy in Nyakishenyi. In Kabale a bunch of bananas is at Uganda shillings 20,000 from 5,000 or 6,000. All the food prices have gone very high in the whole of Uganda. Pray for us.. We shall have this shortage of food for at least the coming 4 months. The cause was a storm that hit our area and the food market in Kenya, Sudan and Rwanda . There is high demand of food in these countries and Uganda is their food basket.
I am sorry that the report is not all that exciting but I believe the situation will change to normality with time.”
Rev. Jovahn
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