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There is Hope for Priscilla

Before her father was imprisoned Priscilla was called Tracy Nangobi, her name changed when her new guardian renamed her.

Priscilla and her brother Trevor were abandoned by their mother when their father was imprisoned and left them with relatives in the village-Mayuge district Eastern Uganda. The mother who is remarried said that she dropped those children because when the inmate was marrying her, he didn’t find her with children. So she saw no reason of going with them. (Priscilla was 6 months old at that time)

This little bundle of destiny uses signs and crying to communicate, aged three and a half years Priscilla cannot walk or stand for a long time without support, she can only sit or sleep and eats anything that comes her way. She has a swollen belly, small frail legs, scars covering her body and her skin is pale and scaly-signs of malnutrition. And most of the time she is by her self, they usually put a plate of food by her side and no one cares to feed her

(she normally sits on the verandah and by passers see her in Nabisunsa-Kampala).On 10th June 2008, she was tested and found to be HIV positive.

Priscilla is the only surviving child of William a prisoner living with HIV/AIDS, in our previous stories we reported that when Priscilla’s brother Trevor died in April 2007, it took our visit in prison on Tuesday (29th April 2008), for William to learn of the death of his son. During that time we promised William that we would trace for his daughter and provide help.

Because of Priscilla’s state we are limited to help, our original aim was to take her to school; today we facilitated her through the assistance of her caretaker an uncle a casual laborer to take Priscilla to Mildmay Centre an HIV/AIDS treatment and Training Centre.

Priscilla needs prayers that she can get healing, so that she can walk and talk and be like other normal children; she also needs a boost of diet, clothing, and beddings.

UPDATE :::

It was celebration and jubilation at Wells of Hope as Priscilla found a new home.

It took the collaborated efforts of the Prison department, the father of the child behind the prison walls and wells of Hope team, the staff of the orphanage who worked so tirelessly to take Priscilla off the verandah.

It was rescue operation which started yesterday (29th July 2008) at 1.00pm with these people calling us, they drove to our offices and we took them to where Priscilla was. Very early at 6.00am we were all on the road, while as I was in the Prison negotiating with the Prison authorities in Luzira for the inmate to assent to his daughter being taken to an orphanage (He gladly did it), Pauline and the orphanage people were having meetings with Priscilla’s former guardians in Nabisunsa convincing them to let the girl go. All this time Priscilla was out alone in the cold on the verandah as usual with no knowledge of what was going on. By 12pm Priscilla was in our hands-Praise God!

These people who came with dresses for Priscilla, clothed her, for the first time Priscilla was able to use a pamper, they held her in their arms into a waiting car, and as we were leaving Priscilla waved bye bye to her former guardians.

Before she finally went to the orphanage we had a brief moment with her at Wells of hope base, and we were able to see her smile-there was a noticeable change about Priscilla in a very short time.

We wish to thank you for your prayers; we wish to thank Rev. Jim, our partner who connected us through his good relations with the orphanage.

We grateful to Pauline who led the Wells of Hope team(and will continue to follow up on her), Rachel also a volunteer with Wells of Hope who did the initial tracing.

We are thank full to Mildmay centre who are already offering free medical care to Priscilla-the people at the orphanage have taken on the responsibility of following up Priscilla treatment at the centre.

Continue to pray, because she is malnourished and her belly is still very big. With this intervention we believe Priscilla’s life will be better.

We thank God for allowing us to be part of life changing moments for children like Priscilla.