October 2008
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Greetings
from Uganda. 10/28/08
It has been a while since I last communicated to you. I hope all is going well.
I am ok and the gals too. Charlene is now 1 year and 8 months old now talking and able to use a potty by her self. Except Chantal 4 years and 6 months is not so well she broke her left hand above the elbow while playing 8 days back. She is now in POP and went back to school yesterday after a week at home. She will be ok with time.
My work with the mothers is going on slowly and well. At the moment it is a rainy season and we are planting vegetables and some fruits in our groups both for food and sale.
Yesterday when I woke up at 6:00am, my baby woke up too and when she wakes before 7.30am she doesnt want any other person except me because she breastfeeds at 7:00 am before I leave home. At that time I had to prepare her food and drinks before I get to work so I just got her in the ERGO-Bag and she nursed as I prepared her food. She couldnt resist the attachment and fell asleep again. I took her to our bed as she slept I left for work with my older daughter Chantal. The Ergo baby carrier makes my life so easy!
I was able to attend the VELB- ILCA Conference in Vienna (A worldwide view on breastfeeding, conference) 1-3 October. It was such an amazing trip for me from which I learnt so many things and I met nice people too. Iam currently working on a small project from what I learned and shared at the conference.
At the conference I took some of the craft materials that we make from some of the money I got from the sale of ERGO bags that I had left and I was able to raise Euros 120. This is part of the money that I have saved to contribute to the Euros 2000 project that we are planning for January - March 2009.
We make table mats, wallets, mats , baskets and other crafts from local materials which we sale to get more money for our project. We plan on expanding our products which we can sell to our friends outside Uganda because here at home the market is not so readily available.
I now have a new boy friend Victor and he is very loving to me and my girls. He bought one of the last bags I had left for his sister with a baby. He was so fascinated when he came home and found me doing my work (cooking, cleaning) with my baby at the back and asked me where I got it. I told him about my friends at Ergobaby who gave it to me and said he had not seen it any where.
Thanks for supporting me.
I wish you all the best and hoping to hear from you.
Wishing you good elections.
Sincererely yours, Josephine
I have a little story I want to share with all of you at ERGO Baby Carrier, Inc. I hope you will find time to read it. When I had my first daughter Chantal, 3 years and 3 months ago 24th May 2004, I went through a lot of hard times when it came to carrying my baby to hospital, about 3 kilometres to my garden and 3 kilometres from the garden, Monday to Friday. I devised means by using a cloth and tied her on my back or lift her on my shoulders because I wanted her to be close to me all the time because I wanted to breastfeed her, as it was cheap and healthy for me to afford. I could walk half way and take a rest in the Jackfruit tree (see photo 2 attached) for about 20 minutes and then later proceed home. When I got a job in May 2006 that I could work 3 days a week 9am- 5pm for $150, and my days were reduced to 3 garden days when I would do the same, and I should say it has been very difficult. I have experienced serious back pains especially at the behind part of the shoulders. I had my second daughter, Charlene, on 19th February 2007 who is now 6 months and not much has changed as far as carrying her is concerned. I devised means using ordinary cloth. I have managed through with God's Guidance and protection. I am sure this pain is going away with the use of my present.
