Party all night

Is what our neighbors here in Nakaale enjoy doing when truckloads of corn, beans, and even cooking oil have been distributed by an aid organization, just down the road from us. Our eldest daughter, Rachel, & one of our teachers, Eden, were walking back along the main road and heard and saw the massive crowds who had come for a handout. Some local people were too frightened of the Ugandan soldiers - sent to keep men from attacking old women to steal their bags of maize - to come and pick up their portion. What we can't figure out is why the free food - eriliif, in Karimojong - arrived just now. Last week when we went to town, sorghum had dropped from 2000 a can to about half that, and even maize and other food is less expensive. We are harvesting sorghum every day from the fields around us. But what we hear is that people are fearing akoro, hunger, too much this year.