COVID-19 Appeal Drive
As the Covid-19 virus spreads across the globe, and the world’s communities isolate themselves against the pandemic, no doubt you have felt the effects of the lockdown measures and the loss of business and trade that followed. Here in Uganda we are also taking measures to combat the spread of the disease and to protect our most vulnerable citizens, and here at the Wilmat Development Foundation this has meant cancelling all our education and training courses for the foreseeable future and suspending all our volunteer and internship programs. Sadly, this means that people living in our remotest areas are now more cut off than ever, as we can no longer go out into communities to reach them. The disease has had a devastating effect on those living in remote and rural areas. Women and children have been cut off from larger towns and villages, which means it is much harder to access essential supplies like food, soap, hygiene products and clean drinking water. It has also become much harder to access health services, and children who don’t have access to technology can’t continue their education.
