Uganda Project 2008

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Hello from Uganda

We have all arrived safely, and all our boxes and cases. All the travel went as planned, with no hold-ups and we arrived at our guest house to very welcome tea and toast and a much needed sleep.
Yesterday was spent in getting to know where we are and visiting the school to meet the children and staff. Today we started on our first project - we have been asked to paint part of the primary school. Today is a public holiday (Eid) and the children are not in school, which makes it much easier.
Our overwhelming first impression of Uganda ( apart from the heat) is of the friendliness of the people and we are really looking forward to working with them.
We will keep posting on the blog as often as we can, but we do not have very ready access to the internet so it may be sporadic. This post is coming from the internet cafe at the school, and we hope to be able to add some pictures if it is not too slow.
The school is really a complex of schools : nursery, primary and high school and yesterday we visited all of them. The pupils were so welcoming and some of them sang for us. They also asked us questions, and were very intrigued that we had come so far to visit them.

Visiting the High School

This morning we visited the high school to take them some of the resources we had brought for them. We took them science books (they were especially pleased with the set of Core Physics textbooks),some microscopes, reference CD-Roms including Encyclopaedia Britannica, geography and science posters, web cams,footballs and other items.
We also had a chance to meet some of the teachers to talk about how we could work together in future and to ind out what kind of resources they need. Quite a lot of the syllabus they cover, especially in science, seems to be very similar to ours so we are hopeful we can help.

Painting the primary

The main project we will be working on in Ggaba (even the locals don’t agree on the spelling) this week is painting in the primary school. We began this morning by preparing the walls by brushing them down with whisk brooms which some of us discovered were also rather tickly. Hugh had to go into Kampala while we were doing that to buy the paint, brushes and rollers. We were a little taken aback to find when we got here this afternoon that we are painting the building pink (though it is a nice subtle shade).
Most of the team are painting as I write.