Blog Series Part 5: Uganda Visit (6th July)
July 2022
After a much later start than planned, due to a flat battery on the car and a stop to check the water level in the water tank, we eventually arrived at St Kizito in time for lunch...
Once lunch was over, we were entertained by the choir, with a poem written specially for us. This was followed by meetings with staff and then the leadership team, covering the same headings as with the
staff at St Matia Mulumba. Once these meetings finished, the dancers and the drummers from the school performed three traditional dances for us.
Afterwards we toured the school site, visiting the workshops and seeing the tools provided by Workaid in action. We met some of our sponsored children and Neil was able to meet family members of the two girls he supports in school. They came with thank you gifts for him and, he is now the proud owner
of two live chickens, a hand of matoke, a bag of giant corn cobs and, also, one
of enormous avocados. Watch out Kenya Airlines!
There was then time to visit the nursery to discuss the possibility of the nursery entering into partnership with a nursery in the UK and, to watch the Top Class children, who are mostly 6 years old, conduct a debate for us with the motion, Dad is better than Mum. Eight children debated giving their reasons – Dad pays my school fees, Mum gives me love - and the Chairman for the whole occasion was one of our sponsored children. Each one spoke clearly in English so that all could hear – a wonderful way to end the visit.
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