How We Began
In June of 2008 Heidi Kaltur, as a recently graduated University student still looking for her life’s purpose, traveled to Uganda with the simple agenda of volunteering at a local orphanage. Here is her story:
During a moment off work I decided to explore the nearby town of Jinja and stopped for lunch at a local restaurant. As I was served my plate and began to lift my fork my peripheral vision picked up a group of children, ranging in age from 4 to 14, just outside the boundaries of the eatery. I could tell immediately that they were malnourished, sickly and weak. As soon as I acknowledged their presence they rushed the table and began begging for scraps of my lunch. I could not ignore their hungry pleas and decided that I could go without this one meal as, unlike these children, I knew another would come. Click HERE to read on…