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Compston speaks of shock of living conditions in Uganda
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Amy Compston
Amy Compston spoke on Monday to the Ashland Rotary Club about the Amy For
Africa mission she started in May 2013. MARK MAYNARD / The Independent
Tim Preston The Independent
ASHLAND — Amy Compston told members of the Ashland Rotary Club of her initial
shock upon witnessing living conditions in Uganda during Monday’s meeting, as
well as her own experience with illness in a land where the nearest hospital
employed a single doctor to care for 85,000 patients every year.
“You’re basically going there to die almost?” said Compston, the force behind
the Amy For Africa campaign to build schools and provide essentials for some of
the most poverty-stricken people on the planet.
The marathon runner explained she developed a bacterial infection while
visiting Africa this summer to witness the work that has already been
accomplished with the more than $87,000 generated by Amy For Africa supporters.
“I got very sick. They had no medicine at all in the hospital — not one pill,
nothing,” she said, explaining she had to travel eight more hours to get to a
hospital with medicines.
The hospital visit, which required pre-payment for all services including
consultation with a nurse, was merely part of the “extreme culture shock”
Compston said she experienced upon landing in Africa.
“My mind couldn’t process such extreme poverty,” she said, describing her
reaction to the lack of even one modern building in a land with mile after mile
and “hours and hours and hours” of up-close views of severe poverty. “I could
barely talk. I could not process what I was seeing.”
Compston estimated 95 percent of the funds raised for humanitarian works in
Africa have been given by people who live in the Ashland area and attend the 40
to 50 churches where Compston has told of her mission during the past 18 months.
“God has taken over this mission,” she said, citing the original goal to raise
$10,000 and adding the business owners in the audience could surely appreciate
“how God stretched those dollars,” to accomplish more than she had dreamed.
Despite the shocking conditions and extreme needs, Compston said she witnessed
great things being done with money contributed to the Amy For Africa campaign.
The $45 per year needed to sponsor a child for a year provides outstanding
educational opportunities, she said, as well as humanitarian relief and even
medicines and other supplies for the hospital where she initially sought
treatment. The children in the predominantly Muslim nation are learning about
Jesus Christ, she said, while also learning to speak English, a vital skill if
they hope to escape the tribal boundaries of their people, in addition to
mathematics and other crucial subjects.
The African effort has also provided shoes for numerous children in Uganda,
including 80 young orphans supported by the mission, and provided mechanic
training “for a 90-pound five-foot-tall girl” who will teach others how to
repair the scooters and motorcycles used for primary transportation there.
While the Ebola epidemic has remained far from Uganda’s borders, Compston said
the nation still deals with outbreaks of cholera and notes new efforts to
educate people about hygiene to prevent the outbreaks.
Tim Preston The Independent
“You would think it is common sense, but it isn’t. As Americans, we’ve just
learned to do these things,” she said.
Uganda has also been subject to ongoing terrorist attacks since her visit,
Compston said, adding the Amy For Africa funds have paid for things like
blankets and cooking pots for 19,000 who were robbed of everything they owned
during the attacks.
“We’re just showing them Christ’s love,” she said before asking each in the
audience to pray for health and safety of staff serving in Uganda “because they
are in the midst of war right now.”
TIM PRESTON can be reached at <mailto:[email protected]>
[email protected] or (606) 326-2651.
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