All over the developing world millions of families will be without any light at all, while we enjoy the bright lights of Christmas parties and celebrations.
Others will use makeshift ways of creating light that
are filled with all sorts of dangers-some actually LETHAL.
Can You Help??
If you can, you will also help us to set up manufacture in EACH country, creating jobs exclusively for local people, many of whom will be disabled or disadvantaged. Many more jobs will be created because we will need people right down to village level, or will create revenue for local schools or charitable institutions.
Dear friends,
Following our arrival at Entebbe Airport late one night on a recent visit to Uganda, we drove through a trading centre on the main Kampala – Entebbe road.
The familiar sight and sound of countless people milling around the trading centre greeted us. All along the roadside people were selling their wares… fruit and vegetables, cooked food and household goods… all manner of things were available here.
My eyes gradually became adjusted to the darkness caused by the non-existence of street lighting, and my ears were assaulted by the cacophony of sounds being generated by both the passing traffic and buyers and sellers alike thronging the roadside.
However, what shocked me most was that the air around us was so thick with the overwhelming smell of burning fuel oil that you could almost cut it with a knife.
Every six feet or so, a paraffin lamp was perched atop someone’s pile of tomatoes or mangoes. This was not the type of paraffin lamp we expect in the West, but a simple tin can with a cloth wick protruding from the top.
The small amount of flickering light this generated was partially obscured by the black smoke that filled the air with such density that it showed up as fog in the headlights of the passing traffic .”
You may think that David’s experience of the appalling pollution these people have to live with every day, with its consequent effects on health – not to mention the degradation of the environment – is bad enough. Actually, this is only part of the story… visit www.juataa.co.uk to find out more.
Thank you for your support in advance.
are filled with all sorts of dangers-some actually LETHAL.
