food distribution in Kageyo

Tuesday we went to the Kageyo refugee camp to distribute two-weeks worth of maize flour to the 4200 people that live in the settlement. They once received government assistance, but now rely solely on the small number of crops they can grow or outside assistance they can get. It is our understanding that no other aid groups distribute food other than the groups Africa New Life Ministries sends a few times a year.

There were four "districts" and food was distributed according to the number in each family. Each family got 2 2-cup scoops of flour per person in each family. It was so humbling to be serving food to these hurting people. In Kigali and Kayonza, we see hope. In the eyes of those in Kageyo, we see despair. After we distributed food, there was a woman with two newborn twins who asked for us to tell a joke. She said life is so difficult, that there is nothing to make people laugh.

Currently there is no church in Kageyo, but ANLM has partnered with the settlement and hopes to build a church and wells and a larger school in the future.


As we left, we drove by a large pond where we saw...hippos!