{"id":8822,"date":"2019-02-15T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T00:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/?p=8822"},"modified":"2019-02-14T13:03:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T13:03:06","slug":"angella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/angella\/","title":{"rendered":"Angella’s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Help families like Angella's<\/h2>

Donations to our Give2Grow campaign made between 15th February to 15th May 2019 will be doubled by the UK Government, meaning you can help not just one family like Angella's, but two.<\/p><\/div>

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Angella is a young mother trying to overcome the trauma of war and violence and rebuild her life in one of the poorest and most troubled places on earth, a district called Teso in northern Uganda.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Teso is still recovering a decade on from years of violence and destruction at the hands of warlord Joseph Kony and his Lords Resistance Army. Many people were murdered, women raped, their villages burnt, their crops destroyed, their children stolen away to become child soldiers.<\/p>\n

Angella lost her parents to this apocalypse at 13 and had to flee her home, taking on the care of her three younger siblings.\u00a0 Ten years on she\u2019s back, starting her life again, from scratch, <\/strong>with courage, hope and determination.\u00a0 She found her home had been burned down and her family\u2019s small land had returned to bush: \u201cWe fled with nothing, and we returned to nothing,\u201d<\/em> she says.<\/p>\n

Teso is one of the poorest areas of Uganda.\u00a0 Families rely on subsistence farming, growing barely enough to eat<\/strong>. People are still struggling to restore their farms that became wild again after being abandoned. There is not enough to eat all year \u2013 families eat just once a day, and endure \u2018the hungry months\u2019 when food run out. Children experience malnutrition, and miss out on school.<\/p>\n

The recent history of the people of Teso is grim, but their future doesn\u2019t have to be. It shouldn\u2019t be. And with your support, it won\u2019t be.<\/p>\n

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At Self Help Africa, we know that agriculture is the answer<\/strong> \u2013 across sub-Saharan Africa, improving farming is ten times more effective in reducing poverty than anything else.\u00a0 We have years of experience and expertise supporting communities improve their farming and family income. And we\u2019ve been able to do that, because of you and your support for many other people like Angella.<\/p>\n

Since her return to Teso, Angella has cleared her one acre land and has planted cassava, sweet potatoes and sorghum. But Angella still only grows enough food to feed her family once a day.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please, make a special gift today to Self Help Africa\u2019s Give2Grow Appeal<\/strong><\/a>, for Angella, for the people of Teso. You will be helping people believe in themselves, supporting them as they change their lives for the better, overcoming poverty and hunger through their own efforts, enabling them to be more independent.<\/p>\n

This life-changing opportunity is very special \u2013<\/strong> your donation to the Give2Grow Appeal<\/strong> will be doubled by the UK government,\u00a0<\/u>helping not just one family like Angella\u2019s – but two!<\/a><\/p>\n

Angella says: \u201cI love Teso, the soil is fertile here. If I had the right tools and skills to farm more land, I could grow more crops and make an income from my work. I would be able to afford school fees for my siblings and pay for medicines when we are sick.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

I want to help families like Angella’s<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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