Just joy… no words!

HOCT offers the possibility to purchase a medical insurance for a child in our community at a very symbolic price of 10 euros for the whole year 2025 (unlimited treatments and medication).

PayPal: contact@helponechildthrive.com

Normally, this is done for the child you are sponsoring, but if you can afford, offer this to a child without sponsor. Take the first step into seeing how HOCT is like and you will enjoy wonderful updates and a peace of mind like nothing else, because the amount of illnesses in Uganda is large… and you will be giving a child a way out of that danger.

Just a few photos, for the joy of our hearts, so that we are happy that such kindness exists in our world!

Shamula my doll ❤ if only you knew how far she’d come, I am so proud of her, and of her long-distance mother who puts so much soul in taking care of her! Thank you so much Nico!

Mutesi Shamula is a girl that has spina bifida and urinary incontinence. You can well imagine how her life was before she came to us. To this day the first photo of her still haunts me like a nightmare. But now she is clean, well-fed, not worrying about her bladder (Nico buys her Pampers) and, most of all, she attends school, and mind you, she is doing terrific!

So yes, when I see such results, such effort, I feel that any hardship can be overcome.

Many beautiful things happened today – we are working very hard to catch up on the delivery of products – a matter which is not so easy to accomplish, mind you, as some of the products go bad and need to be replaced. Slowly-slowly the children gather after the holidays and they will pick their items with gratitude and love.

The little girl hiding behind the letter is cracking me up Beatrice and Simon have fed so many children without sponsor and she is one of the fortunate ones to have a batch of food. She is very happy, she has never received anything.

Emulutu (in orange shirt) is his normal self (I have known this boy since he was a peanut; one day, this boy will become at least a president!) and Mukose Rayan, who is struggling a little bit (he has severe disabilities) has also received his batch of food from his beloved long-distance mother, Romina.

We worked today (we had a lot of meat and it risked going bad) and we worked yesterday.

I do not feel like this is “work”. This is something we build in this wounded world, with love and understanding and effort, with joy, with sleepless nights and end-to-end weekends and no vacations and no free days.

And I do not mind. Look at this boy that no one wanted – forgotten by a previous person (surely life gets ahead of all of us sometimes) and whom I thought no one would ever want again, and there comes Claudia and wants him.

That’s a smile that cannot be staged – it comes from the depth of the soul. And even when they don’t smile, their little hands clutching at the carton of eggs or at the bag of maize, knowing they have food to eat for now – this is my best present, the most important thing that I accomplish each day, and for this very reason, I do not mind working each day of my life.

I received many beautiful messages today and I am grateful for all of them. I took some time for myself, spent the day with my Family, and painted a little mindless landscape with the colors from Nicoleta.

It has been a good day of my life.

Vero

The days are simply running away from me and I can hardly write or do anything but organizing tables, payments, replying to messages and doing other administrative tasks. Hardly any sleep on this front, but I work together with my colleagues with all my love. We work with good energy and we hope that you can feel it.

Our first 4 windows have arrived, and I am so grateful! So many thanks are due!

Beloved friends who contributed to these treasures, I rejoice in your kindness! Those windows will be mounted on our school (as soon as I have all 21). A window lets the light come in; a window makes the soul bright. I am so happy for those contributions. May you all be blessed!

We are now trying to raise funds for 6 more windows, to slowly slowly advance towards our goal.

Another day full of work, and full of love.

Words are not even needed.

On the International Kindness Day, I am asking all of you, HOCT friends and not only, to help this little baby. He is named Harid, he is a 2-month old boy whose mom died last week. He is now with his beautiful, youngish grandma, who has asked for our help to get the boy milk.

This tin of milk is 22 euros (89 000 UGX), and we want to get him a few. We will do all that we can, because one thing we learned at HOCT: the kindness of people is boundless.

Of course, he also needs a long-distance parent…

Kindly send funds for Harid using our PayPal:

contact@helponechildthrive.com

Please add “Harid” as a note.