On 5 September 2026, International Day of Charity, we begin our first continuous programme. Thirty widows in Lugbe, worked with as a defined cohort rather than an audience at an event.
What happens on the day
Household provision packs, sized for a household rather than an individual. Blood pressure screening and health education, because hypertension goes undetected in this group for years and is cheap to catch early. And the first skills conversation with each woman: not a generic vocational class, but a structured discussion of what she can realistically earn from, given her household, her health and what she already knows how to do.
Why thirty
Our earlier outreach programmes reached more people in a single day than this cohort contains. We could tell you those numbers and they would sound better than thirty.
But we could not tell you what happened to any of those people afterwards, because we did not follow them. Thirty women we can follow is worth more than three hundred we cannot.
This entry will be rewritten
After 5 September this post gets a second life. We will add what actually happened, with numbers and consented photographs, and it becomes evidence rather than intention.
