UGANDAN ADVENTURE - 2012 We arrived ...
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have been here, have helped to provide this place of excellence First impressions and thoughts in education for the children of - red soil, very green vegetation Uganda! The school now has 900 (does it rain a lot?), not as hot as pupils, about half of whom are expected... I’ve come home - and orphans and is ranked in the top 5 already I dread the flight back to schools in Uganda! The classrooms UK! appear, to our western eyes, bare, After a long flight with a stoplacking in notice boards, colour, over in Dubai, we are allowed sense of fun. I question myself an afternoon’s rest and play in a - is learning meant to be fun? nearby pool before journeying on Is the way we teach in the UK the next day to Rukungiri- 10hour better?... right?... There is a sense bus trip heading to the Western of earnestness here - the children border, including stops every here learn in order to survive! couple of hours to stretch our legs and let the numerous children We worked... with us let off steam. The Team: different families Kitazigurukwa Primary School (between us 10 children aged - about 20minutes minibus 8-16yr and two 18yr olds), drive away from where we are different histories, different staying. The school is smaller than denominations, all 20 of us friends Rukungiri Modern Primary, only already, anticipating serving the 206 children, and most are away one Lord. on holiday. The classrooms are basic-one big blackboard and rows Rukungiri... of desks - girls sit one side, boys the other. One text book, from Quite a busy town and district. which the teacher reads and writes We visit the Modern Primary the questions onto the board - the School, built by previous Mission children wait, silently, expectantlyDirect volunteers. How exciting eager to learn. They have come in to know that our City Chaplain, especially during the holidays, to Howard Rowe and his wife, as boost their learning before exams well as Lauren Sylvester, next term! We are here to build the first classroom and toilet facilities for disabled children
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dormitories at first seem acceptable almost, clean, tidy....until we are told that each bunk bed will double up, thus a room with 12 bunks, not all with mattresses, provides sleeping space for 48 children.....’