The Enemy of the 'Best' is Often the 'Good'

Africa is amazing! supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! :)
As time goes on, I find myself loving this place more and more.  I fall in love with the children more and more each day - especially while I round the corner of our street and the girls at the house there yell out to me, "Baayi Jesca!" :) It makes my day - every single time:)

It's July 10th.  Two months ago (May 10th) I arrived in Uganda.  I have been here for TWO months already!  Time has flown by WAY too quickly!

We have taken a turn on our People with Disabilities project.  We are still working on helping the children individually, but we are now starting to focus on educating the parents about their child's disability.  Yesterday we walked around Nakazedde and asked 4 parents who had a child with a disability and asked them questions so we could learn more about what their child has and what the child can and can't do and what the parent would like to see them learn how to do.  It was very neat.
We have discovered a lot, and have realized that Moses's assessment in the beginning was good, but not correct in which disability each child has.

So our plan from here is to research specifically just for that child and then organize a presentation that we can present to the parents to give them knowledge about their parent.
Our cause for changing our plans in this was the question, "How are we going to keep this program sustainable?  How will it continue through the rest of the year while HELP is out of the country?  And how can we make it so next year will be able to pick up this project and run with it right from the first week?"

Our thinking: No matter how much we help the child this summer, if the parents don't know about their child's disability and if they don't know what they can do to improve their life, what is the use of just helping the child?  We need to educate the parents!  Once the parents are educated, hopefully they will have the desire to help their child on their own without help from HELP volunteers in the future.
We are hoping that by educating the parents, it will make it so they will continue to help their child while we are gone.  Then next year, volunteers can work on helping more families (ones that we are not able to talk with and research on their child's disability), present the information to the parents, and soon start a support group within the community for all the parents who have a child with a disability.

We are hoping this way will make it more sustainable.
We will still be helping the child directly, but just focusing a little more on educating the parents now!
Let me ask you: 
What are your thoughts on this?  Is this a good idea?  Or what would you suggest would be the best way to make this program sustainable?  How can we help these children, not just for the summer, but for the rest of their lives? Leave your comment and/or suggestion below.:) Thanks!

Quote of the Day! :) (I saw this on my cousin's blog the other day.)
"You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically - to say 'no' to other things.  And the way to do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside.  The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good'." - Stephen Covey