Dillon Bechthold

So for the last couple of days we have been doing quite a lot. A few days ago we went to a small village only a couple minutes away by car. And what we did is some of the girl volunteers the night before made some chapattis which is like nan bread only flatter like a tortilla, and they also made a ton of juice to hand out to the children. As well as a woman from the village made beans to go with it that the volunteers had given to the lady a day or so before. So we went up and it was a mad house the children were pushing and steeling each other’s dishes just to get some food. I don’t blame them though because some may not have even had food for a day or two. But we did do our best to make sure that no one came through for seconds or if we spotted someone you who taken someone else’s dish we would get it back but there was hundreds and hundreds of kids so it was very hard. At the end we did not have enough food so some went home hungry which was really sad and easy to go home and think that this was a failure but we had to keep reminding ourselves that we just fed over three to four hundred kids. So it was a bummer but at the same time it was amazing.

Yesterday we went to Danneda to do what this whole Suubi thing is about. We went up to purchase the necklaces the women had made for us. Now it sounds simple but it was a three-hour process! First there was quality control check then the purchases then we handed out new clasps and then we had put together some bags full of gifts for the women so we handed those out all inside of a room about 20 ft by 20 ft with 62 women and 7 of us volunteers. It was hot and stinky…

Today we went up to Walukuba to interview a few of the Suubi women. Their stories are crazy. What they have seen and gone through is crazy. And to see them now and how hopeful they are is so amazing. I don’t know how they do it but they do.

This place is blowing my mind I don’t think that anyone will ever fully realize what its like unless you come and see it for yourself. We will try with this film but no guarantees.