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Rotary Club of Ottawa – Stittsville makes a difference in Uganda Local Rotary chapter has successful library, school project in Ugandan community
something in Luweero that had never been there before, making books readily available in their lives for the first time ever. But even more than setting up the library and proJohn Curry viding the books, this Rotary john.curry@metroland.com project has also impacted EMC News - Rotary Club the Luweero community by member Brad Spriggs of distributing soccer balls and Stittsville, who has just re- erecting a basketball net in turned from a trip to Uganda the community. where he was involved in Mr. Spriggs told how recestablishing a library in the reation for youngsters used community of Luweero, told to involve playing on a brohis fellow Club members at ken swing or pushing around their meeting on Tuesday, a tire with a stick. Now, as Feb. 28 that the mayor there he told about a scene that had acknowledged that the he witnessed before leavproject has changed the face ing, over 30 youngsters can of the town. be seen in the evening playMr. Spriggs said that the ing soccer and basketball, Making had your created final arrangements is the right fun like library project laughing and having thing to do.
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Members of the winning “Smarter Than A 5th Grader” team in the “Quiz for a Cause” at the Community Bible Church in Stittsville last Saturday, March 3 are, front row, seated, Wendy Wilson, left, and Barb Boyd, right; and, back row, standing, from left, Mark Wilson, Jeff Carrie, Roy Patterson, Jim Boyd who is holding the championship trophy, and J.C. Townsend.
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appear like the 401. As for secondary roads in Uganda, they are basically dirt roads that are destroyed when the
vations on a building so that it could house the community library. Mr. Spriggs observed that while labour in Uganda is cheap, the materials needed for construction projects are very expensive so that actual project costs work out to about the same as they would be in Canada. Besides setting up the library with shelving around the room, the project also involved fixing the rain collection system for the building to handle the rains in the rainy season. This rainy season began just as Mr. Spriggs left to come back home but just one rain storm filled up the 6,000 litre tank that collects the rain water. That’s how much rain comes down when it does rain.
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Rotary Club member Brad Spriggs told the club about the difference their recent project made in Uganda
inevitable rains come. During his time in Uganda, Mr. Spriggs saw a variety of wildlife such as elephants, hippopotamus, crocodiles and chimpanzees. Giant vultures are also a common sight in Uganda. Mr. Spriggs, during his stay in Uganda, was able to attend a wedding ceremony which involved the presentation of food and gifts as a man married a woman from a neighbouring village. “It was quite an event to see,” he told his fellow Rotary Club members. Besides setting up the new library with books, Mr. Spriggs also visited a number of schools in the area where he also left some books. A local contractor had been hired to make the reno-
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young people everywhere should be doing. He noted that one young girl was even playing with a hula hoop which had been supplied. This is how this Rotary Club of Ottawa – Stittsville project has impacted this Ugandan community of Luweero. While there to help launch this community library project in Luweero, Mr. Spriggs also got to experience life in Uganda including its wildlife and some of its attractions such as the Nile River where he went on a sightseeing boat cruise. He noted that Ugandan roads are not only pothole filled but very different from roads in Canada in that a major road there would, as he said, make his cottage road
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