Blogs from Central Region, Uganda, Africa - page 9

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The capital city, Kampala makes a great introduction of Uganda since it is highly developed and with a warm atmosphere. You’ll walk through the streets and strangers will great you “Hi, how are you?” and you’ll feel that you’re surround by lovely people. Don’t hesitate to ask for help and they will be more than happy to help, and they won’t ask you for money. If you need any help so we have learnt that best to begin the conversation with “Hi, how are you?” and later on ask what kind of information do you need. It has happened many times that we’re just saying “Hi” and asking for the direction but getting answer “I’m fine”. Well they are expecting that you’ll ask how they are doing today. Kampala is a green and hilly city, and ... read more

All the kids in the class are hilarious. We teach them colours and shapes and fruits as well as other things. We often cover colours with our flash cards. We have just been listening to one of the teachers singing a song about colours in which they repeat the name of the colour a lot in one song e.g. red is my favourite colour, red is the best, whilst waving the flash card. The children are then asked what colour is this? To which one of them shouted out BLUE. Hilarious. We were talking about different fruits and has some laid out on the table in front of them asking what each fruit and veg is e.g. orange, apple, beans, pepper etc etc. when it gets to anything green they generally just call it greeny’s. Knowing ... read more

We have now put a sh1.7million deposit on a new building to run the school from, this is also the same building we are planning to do after school catch up classes from, weekend fun activities and kids church on a Sunday. Just sh3.8million left to get over a couple more withdrawals from the local bank; the building is then ours! The whole team is super excited for the building and the plans that we have in store for the future. The current tenants of the house were already planning to move out by the 1st of November so hopefully the paper work will all go through smoothly. We will then have the prospect of knocking a few windows into the wall to get some more light in, put some secure doors in and then paint ... read more

Hello all we are pushing on with the project currently nameless writing all the important details including a mission statement a vision a strategy etc we are writing and designing sponsorship forms profiles for the kids and CSR’s (Child status record) don’t worry I didn’t know either what one of those was until now we are looking into opening a few bank accounts buying a house and turning it into a school all the while doing our accounts to make sure we can afford all this. For those who don’t feel as rushed in their lives and feel like they have punctuation, below is a copy slowed down just for you. Hello all, We are pushing on with the project, currently nameless, writing all the important details including a mission statement, a vision, a strategy etc. ... read more