This month, our
church is highlighting the work of the African International Christian Mission
and the friends based in this country who support it. This small charity works
among children of the Batwa (pygmy) people in South West Uganda. They are the poorest and most despised of the people groups there. Their
ancestral lands have been taken to encourage tourism and they have been
oppressed by central government.
AICM is trying
to provide them with education and food so that they will be able to cope with life in a modern
society. They are taught and fed at two schools in the south of Uganda, but
their flimsy buildings have been damaged by storm, and there are now plans
(well in hand) to replace them with brick buildings.
This charity is
now being supported by the whole Oadby Parish.
