So where exactly is this source? We set out on our river journey, and it looks just like the Severn . . . except for the crocs and hippos!Click on read more
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John, Allegra, Barbara and I, along with Teacher Grace who does the translating, have walked up the mountain to see a little boy named Isaac and his sister, Evelyn. By the time Isaac was 8 and his sister was 10, both parents were dead. The kids are now 14 and 16, and have taken care of each other over the years. Isaac greets us, beaming, very happy that we have come. He runs off through the brush to get his sister who is at church, a few hills away. Apparently we are quite a spectacle: . . . Here is our guest house midway up a rather steep hill Basically, all the guests at the guest house are up by 7:15am. During our stay, there were 7 guests (our family of 4, Sabia, Anna and Tom) along with Barbara, the owner/manager/head Big Boss Lady. The first one up . . . Dawn from the front porch of the Guesthouse We are in a house of volunteers: Barbara (65 year old Canadian who runs everything), plus university students doing a GAP year and a Peace Corps worker - and Birch is hanging out with them. They are having . . . Bududa Vocational Acadamy (BVA). BVA was established to provide proper training in specific trades and make this training more accessible to the local population. We will be spending the next five weeks helping out at a vocational school in a small village in the eastern part of Uganda near the Kenyan border. This school, started in 2003, is run by a Canadian woman Barbara Wybar who is now living there full time. Before arriving I had a vague idea about the work Barbara is doing. The school that she runs is called
Most of the students don't have any high school. They also have no other trade training. Lots of the girls have babies already, having had them starting at 15 years old. We don't hear about which boys have kids, as often they don't claim fatherhood. In a nutshell, if the students didn't have this school, they would probably endup on the streets with no job and no way to support themselves or their young families. That's why this school makes an important contribution. It lets people help themselves. Currently the school trains . . . |