In Uganda, the monsoon season typically occurs in two main periods: the first one is the long rainy season, and the second is the short rainy season. These rainy seasons are driven by the movement of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone and the influence of the Indian Ocean monsoon.

Now, the rainy season is in progress and it makes our life a little bit hellish as the children struggle through muddy roads to come pick their food, and we also struggle to procure the necessary products. We are a bit behind with work, but each day we work with great love and gratitude, that such kindness exists in our world.

We get to feed a child: our effort is so much worth…

Collage by Mihaela Stoica

Work accomplished with love by Veronica Anghelescu and Mugoya Swaliki, together with HOCT Family

The weather is excruciatingly muddy today, but we continue our work.

We are starting the month of November with a joyful heart. Such happiness to see those wonderful children receive the gifts from their long-distance parents! Blessings to all of you!

I am also very glad for the help of my friend, Mihaela, who makes those wonderful collages for HOCT. Keep up the splendid work!

We have had a few hard days at HOCT, that have greatly tried my patience, but finally the sun is shining once again. It really is so amazing how my mind goes to absolute hell whenever HOCT is not working. Truth is, we rarely have glitches, which are not in our power to fix. Those past few days, a banking error has made the transfers unavailable; apart from that, my colleague was immensely stressed by the fact that his family was unwell.

Finally, all the problens reached a good resolution and we are slowly picking up energy and resuming our beautiful work. I will not feature any new cases until the end of this month, because we have a lot to catch up. If at any moment you want to do a good deed, we have 202 children on our waiting lists, who have no sponsors, so you can always send 10 euros for one such child (and HOCT will add 5 euros more).

The struggle and effort necessary to accomplish the HOCT work usually remain behind the scenes, but every now and then I feel the need to talk about it, and also to praise the good, honest, beautiful work of my colleague who never takes a single day off.

The world at large goes through difficult moments right now. We all watch and cry within our hearts as people are crushed by the senselessness of wars. But there is also good, and kindness, and beauty in our world; not everything is ugly; and, as Tolkien says, it is worth fighting for it. For that corner of beauty, that each of us can build.

Please subscribe to our YouTube channel, as it would really help HOCT:

YouTube: @helponechildthrive

How would it help HOCT? Not for monetization – we are very far from that. But through showing the world small snippets of our children’s lives. It matters!

We hope you are all enjoying a beautiful weekend. We are wrapping up our week.

Much work…

A video from a few days ago, showing our little ones waving happily. Such joy!

These days, very bad weather has somewhat impeded our operations, but even so, we are doing our best.