Bag of Rice Project #413 -A visit to the Ubon family


Learn how you can be apart of helping people who are in need with our A Thrifty Mom Bag of Rice Campaign
. In 2016 we started helping a young man named Ikechukwu from Nigeria. Summer of 2019 we were able to visit his family in Aba, Nigeria. While there we saw widespread poverty and lack of basic needs. We would like to invite you to help meet one of those basic needs, by providing
Nigerian families with rice. This gift will feed a large family for a few months, or a single person a year. It also reminds them they are loved, and brings most of them to tears… as a full bag of rice is one of the most generous gifts they will ever receive. You can also read about other families we have been able to bless here.

The Following story is about the Ubon family, their bag of rice was donated thanks to Joseph Callahan this is the 413th bag of rice our program has been able to give away thanks to generous donations.

We met the Ubon family in a village just outside Uyo, Nigeria. They were recommended to us by their village chief who also led us to locate the family. The Ubons have 6 kids and live in a rented one bedroom house that looks largely unfinished. Light and water is scarce in this area and to get water they have to fetch at a borehole which the whole community also uses.

Front view of their house

The Ubons cook in a little structure behind their house. They use the popular and cheap firewood method so that they can keep costs down. Mr Ubon sells fine sand which he gets from the bottom of a local stream. He sells to builders and can only sells what he accumulates. This job is very risky as he has to dive under water to pack up the sand until it is enough quantity to sell. His wife is a trader and sells fruits and vegetables at a local market.

Their kitchen

The Ubons were a pleasure to meet and Mr Ubon asked us a lot of questions before he believed that the bag of Rice was his to keep. He was extremely grateful to those who donated to his family and prayed for God to bless and reward them. I could see the joy in their hearts because a bag of Rice is pricey these days and this one will go a long way to helping this family.

Learn how you can be apart of helping people who are in need with our A Thrifty Mom Bag of Rice Campaign. You can also read about other families we have been able to bless here.