Locusts and Food Scarcity

Yesterday we received news that the swarms of locusts that have been devouring Kenya have crossed into Uganda on the Northeastern side, and today we have learned that they are moving swiftly across the country. As readers probably know, locusts eat and multiply voraciously. This at a time when food prices are already up because of heavy rains last year that caused mud slides and flooded fields. A year or two before that there was drought, so there has been no time in between to recover. With a population of 45.74 million, Uganda hosts almost one and a half million refugees, the majority from Somalia--so this hospitality creates extra mouths to feed (mostly funded by outside organizations). All of these factors play into the problem of food shortage, which of course affects our students, and our need for more fundraising.

I started to give a longer explanation about the problems related to hunger shortage, but realized that I'd written a blog about that subject in 2017, so I will post it below. We'll keep you updated on our home page and on Facebook about further developments related to the locusts. For now, we're asking for prayer that the government can find a safe way to tackle the locust problem, and that the people will not respond by spraying with ground pesticides that are hazardous to their health and not effective in treating the locusts.