Denise Robertson the agony aunt from ITV’s This Morning has done a series of reports from Uganda and I managed to catch the last one having come across it on my sky+. Denise had sponsored a child with World Vision and she’d returned to see how her sponsored child had progressed since she first started sponsoring her in 2004. Seeing the two young boys, who like many African children, have been orphaned by AIDS really brought it home to me, that if we donate a little bit of money each month, it can make a huge difference in developing countries.
In the UK we’ve always got something to complain about whether it’s the state of our schools, health service or MPs expenses claims. When you compare it to an African family’s daily struggle for food and water, and witnessing whole communities being ripped apart by AIDS, you suddenly get a wake-up call. It’s good to see that charities like World Vision are doing such a great job helping communities break out of these vicious circles of poverty.
