When we first met Peruth and her family this month, she caught our eye and quickly became a favorite. She is such a sweet, obedient, precious child with a kind smile and good heart. She told us all about her daddy dying when she was just four-years-old and how she discovered her favorite food at his funeral. Rice! She had never tried it before or since that day. After accepting Peruth into the Hope For Orphans Organization-Luuka program (along with 3 other local children), we shared Peruth’s story with some of the kind people who occasionally make donations to our program. One of these lovely people sent enough for us to purchase a small bag of rice for Peruth.

We headed back out to the Namukubembe Village in Luuka district with the bag of rice, the same day we took all the corn to the children who had gone days without food (see previous story). When we presented Peruth with her bag of rice, she fell to her knee, smiling in happy surprise, saying, “Yeesu yeebale!” (Meaning, “Thank you so much, Jesus!”).