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A Sweet Story – Samsoneta

Thursday, August 28th, 2014

Emerson and Brother

This story is about a little girl named Emerson and a little girl named Samsoneta.  I am friends with Emerson’s Mom Crystal.  Crystal recently read a story to Emerson from our blog about the children in Uganda and the little girl named Samsoneta.  As soon as Emerson heard the story of the needs in Uganda she ran up to her room and started going through her clothes.  She wanted to share what she had with Samsoneta in Uganda.  I agreed to do the exchange and Crystal sent the clothes, socks and notebook along with a letter to me for the delivery.

Emerson letter

Uganda – July- 2014  We get to the village of where Samsoneta and her family live.  I recognize her grandmother and she tells us that the little girl has traveled with her mother to a U.S. World food program distribution.  She has to be weighed and measured to see how bad her malnutrition is and to determine how much food will be given to her for.  In the area that we are working there is such a high number of children that are mal nourished because of lack of water for crops, diseased filled water and other factors.  In the dry season many kids get 1 meal every other day.  I say this only so that you can understand the situation that many of these families are in.  So we thanked the grandmother and we told her that we would be back on Friday.

We came back on Friday.  No sign of the little girl.  She is still gone with her Mama.

We came back on Monday. No Samsoneta.  I was feeling as if we were going to bring this special bag with us everyday and never see her.  We only had a few days of work left in that area of Uganda.

Finally the day that we went to do the water filter check up on Wednesday in their village, there she was.  Beautiful Samsoneta.

Why did she stand out to me on our first trip to Uganda in 2012?  I remember kneeling down to take a picture in her village where we had first implemented water filters.  Her tiny little hand reached out to mine and I had never seen such small little wrists.  She was so shy but so sweet.  I was able to meet her Dad, Mom, brothers and sisters.  I made an inward vow to check on her every year that I came back just to make sure that she was okay.

After the water filter check up on Wednesday we took the Mom and Samsoneta down the road a bit so that we did not cause a scene.  Little things such as handing out clothes etc can cause riots if there is not enough for all.  So we asked the Mom if Samsoneta was in school.  We got the impression that she was not.  I told the Mom that our gift from Emerson was so that Samsonita would have clothes to now go to school.  I am hoping that this encouraged her to allow her to go to school.  Our partners Map International will check into seeing if she is attending.

with mama

Clothes

We stepped out of the vehicle, I read the letter from Emerson and I showed her all of the beautiful gifts that had been sent in love from her little friend from California.  She was so shy but I know how happy this made her.  She is a princess as is every girl and I know she felt like it this day.

happy

Thank you Emerson!  Someday Samsonita will be able to write you back. 🙂

Emerson


A Sweet Story – Samsoneta

Thursday, August 28th, 2014

Emerson and Brother

This story is about a little girl named Emerson and a little girl named Samsoneta.  I am friends with Emerson’s Mom Crystal.  Crystal recently read a story to Emerson from our blog about the children in Uganda and the little girl named Samsoneta.  As soon as Emerson heard the story of the needs in Uganda she ran up to her room and started going through her clothes.  She wanted to share what she had with Samsoneta in Uganda.  I agreed to do the exchange and Crystal sent the clothes, socks and notebook along with a letter to me for the delivery.

Emerson letter

Uganda – July- 2014  We get to the village of where Samsoneta and her family live.  I recognize her grandmother and she tells us that the little girl has traveled with her mother to a U.S. World food program distribution.  She has to be weighed and measured to see how bad her malnutrition is and to determine how much food will be given to her for.  In the area that we are working there is such a high number of children that are mal nourished because of lack of water for crops, diseased filled water and other factors.  In the dry season many kids get 1 meal every other day.  I say this only so that you can understand the situation that many of these families are in.  So we thanked the grandmother and we told her that we would be back on Friday.

We came back on Friday.  No sign of the little girl.  She is still gone with her Mama.

We came back on Monday. No Samsoneta.  I was feeling as if we were going to bring this special bag with us everyday and never see her.  We only had a few days of work left in that area of Uganda.

Finally the day that we went to do the water filter check up on Wednesday in their village, there she was.  Beautiful Samsoneta.

Why did she stand out to me on our first trip to Uganda in 2012?  I remember kneeling down to take a picture in her village where we had first implemented water filters.  Her tiny little hand reached out to mine and I had never seen such small little wrists.  She was so shy but so sweet.  I was able to meet her Dad, Mom, brothers and sisters.  I made an inward vow to check on her every year that I came back just to make sure that she was okay.

After the water filter check up on Wednesday we took the Mom and Samsoneta down the road a bit so that we did not cause a scene.  Little things such as handing out clothes etc can cause riots if there is not enough for all.  So we asked the Mom if Samsoneta was in school.  We got the impression that she was not.  I told the Mom that our gift from Emerson was so that Samsonita would have clothes to now go to school.  I am hoping that this encouraged her to allow her to go to school.  Our partners Map International will check into seeing if she is attending.

with mama

Clothes

We stepped out of the vehicle, I read the letter from Emerson and I showed her all of the beautiful gifts that had been sent in love from her little friend from California.  She was so shy but I know how happy this made her.  She is a princess as is every girl and I know she felt like it this day.

happy

Thank you Emerson!  Someday Samsonita will be able to write you back. 🙂

Emerson