Lyths in Uganda

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Wednesday 3 March 2010

Love is something if you give it away…




‘Love is something if you give it away it ends up something more’…..runs the childhood ditty. Helen bought a £2 cake during a fund-raising service in January, and knowing how much Ugandans appreciate cake gave it to the man next to her, Jonah, the school bursar. Since then he has frequently thanked her for the public honour she gave him. Last week in return he gave her a whole stick of matoke bananas from his garden.

Not being able to eat them all ourselves Dave carried the matoke down to the fistula ward, where the diet is cassava root and beans. The 15 patients who love matoke were thrilled to bits!