Pauline and Maureen share their excitement and explain how they are going to give back to their community by cleaning it. The Purse of Hope girls in Bwaise asked for matching shirts and cleaning supplies so that they could hold a community service event. This is an incredible request considering that the women who come into our drop-in center lack money for even the most basic necessities.
Words can't express how beautiful it was watching 50 girls cleaning the very same slum that exploited them for years. The youngest girls led the group in worship as we moved around the foul smelling streets, sewers, and drainages, picking up bags after bags after bags of trash. Many people in the community joined in or approached the girls with words of thanks and encouragement. This was something this slum has never seen before!! Our girls responded to their thanks by explaining that they were serving in order to show love to their neighbors. Isn't that incredible!
We finished the day dancing, singing, and worshipping together. It was amazing that they girls still had energy after long, hard hours of cleaning in the hot Ugandan heat.
Their actions had such a huge affect on the community that the next day, government officials in the area approached the center offering to donate a truck for hauling away trash to our next clean-up day. We can't wait to see how these girls continue to shape their community and bring positive change into one of the most broken places in the world.
