Things have been moving very slow with our school project in Uganda, as earlier in the year the original site that had been given to us by Jim and Freda Bloomer had became flooded due to heavy rains, the cost of preventing this from happening again would have eaten well into our budget so Michael Skillen and I went to Uganda at the end of July to meet with Ministry of Education officials (M.O.E.) and to look for a new site. We looked at 3 different sites and had decided on a 3 acre site behind the original site but on [View Full Entry]

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Some photo's taken in Uganda between 22nd and 26th September 2006 Full story to follow soon [View Full Entry]

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On the 21st of September Mr Jim Bloomer and a Group of friends from Portadown will be going to Iganga to Launch their Orphanage project, they will also lead a team of 3 from Ashfield Girls High School Holywood Road Belfast, to launch their Project to build a new school on the same site. Jim and Freda Bloomer have kindly donated 2 arces of the land that they bought in Iganga earlier this year for our School Project. See pictures of the 10 acre site below. There is the story of the Pastor who got up one Sunday and announced to [View Full Entry]

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Ashfield Team Visit to Uganda On 21st September 2006, three representatives from Ashfield Girls’ High School are setting off for Uganda. Mr. Michael Skillen, Mr. David Catherwood and Mrs. Alison Wilton are going to visit the site of a new Ashfield School, in an area of Uganda called Iganga. While we are excited about getting a brand new school here in Belfast (quite soon we hope), we are also looking forward to helping another community in Uganda build a new school providing new opportunities in an area that is much less fortunate than our own. There is great excitement about bo [View Full Entry]

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Project to build Methodist Manse in Tarime Tanzania A team of 48 from Ireland went to Tanzania July 2005 to build 3 Methodist Manses in Magu, Musoma, and Tarime. The team that I was involved with was in Tarime and was led by Harry & Eileen Below is some of photo's showing different stages of the building work. [View Full Entry]

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Past trips to Africa by some Team members have been, School Project to Sierra Leone 7th - 26th July 2003 In many ways this trip laid the foundation stone for the trips that will follow! [View Full Entry]

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