Fighting for Survival

Just a couple of examples of life struggling to continue.

A few weeks ago we commented on how quickly a new road can be cut through the forest (May 4^th 2014 – ‘The Intrepid Explore’). This week we noticed that already the banana trees are re-establishing themselves as new shoots have broken through the previous destruction.

 

 
In the hospital a mission couple have recently fostered an abandoned baby. Lana was born at the end of January, at about 27 weeks old and weighing less than 2 pounds. Anywhere else in Uganda probably she would not have survived. Fortunately the hospital has a well equipped babies; intensive care unit and with love and attention she is now doing well.

 This week’s proverb from the BBC Africa web-site is from Uganda: “It is survival, not bravery that makes a man climb a thorny tree”