Abayudaya: the Jews of Uganda

In 2005 Zara Sarzin, a South African Jew was on her first trip to Uganda. Uganda had its own Jewish community. The Abayudaya some 2000-3000 Ugandan Jews are scatted across five or six rural communities, not far from the Kenyan border. She witnessed a community subsisting in economic precariousness - without electricity, plumbing or running water. But there was a generosity, hospitality the likes of which she had rarely come across