When the floods struck in the north east of our country, hundreds of thousands of people were stranded, with zero access to food, roads or hope.

We were contacted by the Ramadan Association from Kisekka Mosque and they gave us 3 million shillings to aid the needy. We arranged a large truck, bought 3 tons of maize flour & beans, plus 50 rounds of malaria medicine, stretching the money as far as we could.

We’d previously arranged with the Minister of Disaster Preparedness to airlift the goods by military helicopter to the isolated camp, once we’d reached Soroti, the nearest city, but the President arrived just an hour before we did, requiring the helicopter for further research. Thankfully, God, as always was in control. We tried UN helicopters (they would have happily helped but the two units they had been using were desperately needed back in Southern Sudan where they’d been on loan from. After trying many possible ways to cross the vast expanses of water with these tons of donated items, we finally found an amazing local boat, which had an exceptionally deep hull. Despite all logic and appearances, it miraculously fitted all 6+ tons in it, and took the goods through the floods to the other side. The LC5 had kindly loaned the area tip-truck to load up the donated items from the boat, to take them all the way into the Ngariam camp.