Poverty And the Massive Challenge To Overcome Such SufferingPosted by Fitzgerald Bossen on March 11th, 2021 Poverty And the Massive Challenge To Overcome Such Suffering Returning from a large family party for a very special occasion, the memory of a table laden with much food so that everyone could eat abundantly was very much in the forefront of my mind. The 'leftovers' more than satisfied us some of us who remained over the next two days. Sitting on the bus coming back from a day's duties in Prison I observed how the fields were ready for harvesting despite the peculiar weather we have had in Scotland. News has come from my Pastor friends in Kenya that work has recently started on a third well outside Kisumu, by the shores of beautiful Lake Victoria, and local families will soon no longer have to walk daily some miles to the local river to carry water. It is appalling that people in Kenya still have trudge miles each day for water when there are plentiful supplies in various underground reservoirs. A well can be sunk and become operative for around �1,200 or ,900. Over these past eight years in Uganda and Kenya I have watched so many people sorely struggle when Government Ministers drive around in luxury cars. I am not against luxury cars, but I am against the way their people are mistreated and abused and overlooked and neglected. Walking with my Kenyan colleague who looks after twenty orphans outside his home, he shows me how hard it is to grow some food to feed those for whom he shows such care. Some of these men and women work so very hard and they look for a precarious harvest which depends so much upon the weather. Around Kampala and Kisumu the weather is a little more reliable than elsewhere and crops can grow and bellies can be fed. The Church of Jesus Christ is serving so practically in these needy areas. Where would some of these people be if it were not for the church of Jesus Christ and the caring help being shown to so many? Kenya is such a beautiful country, particularly in the West, and the fields when tended responsibly can produce nourishing food, but those in governmental authority at national and local levels require to give more help than is at presently being given. The slums continue to be hard and harsh places in which to live and although we have seen this quite frequently on various television programmes over the past two or three years, it is a very different thing to walk there and experience what thousands have to endure daily. And, this need not be. Some are working to ease the plight and poverty of those who are suffering and the word that comes from the Word of God reminds us that we must never become weary in well doing. Why did God have that written down? Because He realised that it is comparatively easy to give and give up when seeing how massively challenging the task is. Every one needs that word of inspiration and encouragement which can motivate and enable the various obstacles and difficulties to be overcome. It is good to have a worthwhile aim and goal and purpose. Teaching Jobs In UgandaLike it? Share it! |