Yesterday afternoon the police came to Amecet and asked our help to take three children in. The story was strange, they were left behind by their own mother. She knocked on a door to ask some water to drink. Of course she was offered some water, then she asked the lady of the home if she could get something and leave the three children there on her veranda for some minutes. That was good and the mother left and did not come back. The friendly lady kept the three children for two days, in the hope that the mother would return, but all in vain. So she brought them to the police, because her husband got angry about all the children in his house.
We think the boy would be around 4 or 5 years old, the girl maybe 3 and the baby 4 or 5 months. The boy was bright, he tried to help his sister who was crying, he knew their names and Simon could really talk with him, trying to find things out about his parents. We also found the immunization card of the baby between their clothes. The names of the parents were the same as the boy told us. So Simon went on looking in town, we had some more direction now and we were busy with bathing, feeding and then trying let the children take a nap. After their nap, they felt much better and the older two children played a bit. here you see them, together with Grace, one of our new staff members. Simon found a relative, an uncle, who came with him to see the children. The father was working in the North and came directly travelling to Soroti when he heard of the situation. So by tomorrow the children will be back in their family!

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