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SPECIAL NEEDS SPORTS GALA On July 11th, Watoto held its annual Sports Gala for children with special needs. The aim of the day is to provide a safe environment and platform for self expression through fun activities such as music and sports. This event allows us to partner with a number of other foundations and organisations in Uganda who are also caring
for children with both mental and physical special needs. “For other children, a sports day is a normal affair. This should be the same for children with special needs, however when I looked around there was nothing for them” says Florence Namaganda, founder of the Special Children’s Fund. The day kicked off with the children travelling to the venue
where the main festivities took place. The Watoto Children participated and competed in a number of games including bottle filling, ring dancing, chair dancing, reciting poems and karaoke. While the children played the Watoto mothers cheered them on with pride. Sarah Kaisoke, one of the mothers, happily shared the reason for
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her excitement. “I love coming here. Seeing my children doing all this reminds me just how capable they are. I know they can do anything, they just need the opportunity”. The government’s support of Watoto’s cause was expressed by the deputy speaker of the Ugandan Parliament, Jacob Oulanya, who was the day’s Continued on page 2