The profile is good, especially the profiles of the children. What is lacking for my needs is the family history. I have been talking to so many people, in fact a lot of people are probably sick of me talking about Uganda, and the thing I have learned is that most people want to know what happened. They would ask me about this profile what happened to the husband? Was he killed in the war, did he die of Aids, or another illness? Does she have aids? Did her co wife die of Aids? Does she live in an IDP camp?

These kind of facts told as a story really seem to have some impact on the decision to help the children.

On a personal note I have a question that may seem strange but I have to ask it. I know that things have drastically changed in Uganda over the last 4 years since I lived there. Back then 270,000/= would have been more than most of the people I knew in Kampala made. Has the cost of living in Gulu raised so much that this amount of money cannot even provide a home for the children to sleep in? Or is there something that I am missing. The children have no clothes to speak of, no shoes and cannot sleep at home or go to school. Could you give me some type of idea what expenses they have that eats up the entire income? I am certainly not questioning their poverty but I think I need to know this in order to explain it to others here.