After having acquired such great help for the Babirye and Namugaya Families, this week we are featuring another family in great difficulty. Quite honestly, I am trembling for this family, as they “do not seem” poor when you first look, and most of the people do not take a second look.

In the Atito family there are 4 members:

• Grandmother Bafakuwulira Abusajji, 60 years old, who is raising her three grandsons all by herself, after her daughter and his husband died, two years ago;
• Ngobi Gerald, 12 years old; he wants to become a doctor, so that he can take care of his brother;
• Atito Vicent, 13 years old, and with a deformation of the bone structure of the face, which prevents him from eating solid food (as he cannot chew well) and his vision is impaired; due to this problem, he has also faced severe bullying and he is a very quiet and depressed boy. As he is the most vulnerable, the grandmother named their family after him;
• Ngobi Hasan, the youngest, is 6 years old.

A grandmother with 3 boys – 3 very underweight boys, who have nothing but the walls of the house. I have sent them a bag of maize, but I doubt they have anything to cook in.

They need support with a lot of things:

• More food, at least 3 more bags of maize, eggs, rice, beans, cooking oil, salt, sugar in good quantities
• Mattresses, bedsheets, blankets – for each of them
• Mosquito nets
• Clothes for each boy and a dress for grandmother
• Slippers, shoes
• A sponsor for each boy
• Medical assistance for Atito, to see where that swelling of the face comes from

This is not going to be easy. We will feature this case for two weeks.

Take a look at the pictures and videos, observe their state of poverty, their state of health and see how underweight they are – look at their arms and legs.