Here in the USA the COVID-19 virus pandemic has us in various degrees of isolation; 6 feet apart, “shelter in place”, and under “lockdown” and we can’t easily buy toilet paper or wipes or masks. However, we still have many resources and comfortable homes to be quarantined in compared to our friends in Western Uganda.

Abandoned by her husband, Annah was left to provide for her family. She works all day farming and is barely able to eke out an existence and provide 2 meals a day for her six children.

It was a fine afternoon. We were visiting a small village where one of our new friends, Caroline lives. As we entered the village, a group of children came running to greet us. We greeted them “Agandi!” (local term for ‘good day’). Some of them were carrying empty jerry cans and pointed to where they collected their drinking water.

For the past four weeks, Eda and the Local Ugandan TCI team have been enthusiastically training students, teachers and villagers in Capacity Building and Leadership development along with preparing for the TCI Launch.

It was a beautiful morning as Mama Sarah and I took our morning walk along the Ibanda-Kamwenge Road. We tried to be regular in our morning exercise by walking about an hour before starting our day's work.

Changing paradigms of dependence and powerlessness to a paradigm of hope and belief in our dreams is the theme of next week's Board Meeting and Project Planning of Transformed Communities International (TCI) - Uganda which will run for three days in Kiburara, Ibanda District, Western Uganda.