Feed The Hungry UK’s Head of Communications, Rich Smith, shares about a boy he met in Uganda.
Back in 2017, I had the opportunity to go to Uganda to visit a Feed The Hungry feeding programme in a refugee settlement. Every day, over 50,000 children and young people were fed across multiple locations in two settlements – a huge operation.
At one school that we visited, Arnold Primary School, a member of our team took a photo of a boy sat some way away from where the feeding was happening. Those running the feeding programme at that school explained that he was a feral child, who lived in the woods nearby. Each time food was served in the school, he would come and eat the leftover scraps.
The boy, just 10 at the time, was found accommodation in the settlement and started attending the school.
Food + School = Transformation
In early-2024, I returned to the Kiryandongo refugee settlement, and again, visited Arnold Primary School. As we pulled up, a member of the feeding programme team at the school introduced a young man, saying, “This is Alex. You need to take his photo.”
The strapping guy stood before me was the child who had been brought into the school seven years previously. He was strong, broad-shouldered and happy. Alex had not only grown in stature and received an education, but had come to faith in Jesus and wanted to go into Christian Ministry.
The people behind the numbers
We feed a lot of people at Feed The Hungry, and sometimes it’s easy to forget that behind the big numbers are individual people, whose lives are being touched and transformed.
Help transform life for over 500,000 children like Alex. Give to our Every Child, Every Day feeding programme.
