Monday 26th August

Group 1: Kazuru Primary School

Group 1 headed to Kazuru Primary school in order to plant some trees, as organised by Nick earlier in the week. Unfortunately, the trees were not available until later in the day.

As a result, the team had a look around the classrooms and ended up doing some impromptu lessons. Izzy taught some English, Nick taught some Maths and fortuitously the Science topic the children were on was Public Health, so Lydia was best placed to teach that (her degree was medical sciences)! Part of the group also helped a local farmer pick some Tea leaves.

After some good chats and some patience, the trees arrived and everyone got involved to get them planted.

Group 2: Labouring at Kazuru scheme

Group 2 headed off to the new gravity flow scheme at Kazuru. We started off by moving bags of sand and rocks 2km uphill to the site with a very steep hill. This was no easy task. We continued with this for approximately 2 hours until all the materials required were at the top.

There was a large number of people from the local community helping with the construction of the Spring, that was headed up by two Watsan ‘Fundis’ (skilled workers). We spent the rest of the morning shifting heavy rocks that would be used for the foundation and structure of the gravity flow scheme.

Trevor was told he shovelled like an Ugandan which we are told is a big compliment.

Group 3: Prayer meeting at Cathedral

Group 3 attended morning worship in Kinkiizi Cathedral with the Diocesan staff, followed by the customary flag-raising ceremony.

We were then welcomed by the Diocesan Secretary and toured the office of the Mothers’ and Fathers’ Union.

It was then a short drive to the Mothers’ Union Training College for “break tea”. The College caters for girls who’ve not completed their education and offers hairdressing, tailoring, knitting, cookery, and weaving over 2 semesters.

The team were given a tour of the dormitories and teaching rooms including a recently built modern ‘aga-style’ oven in the new kitchen outhouse. Finally, there were introductions to the staff, students and Watsan team members followed by a traditional song & dance performance by the students.

Many photos were taken before the team, after making some purchases at the shop and exchanging gifts, returned to Ngoto.

In the afternoon, the whole team went to visit Moses’ house. He is currently building another storey on his house that is scheduled to take 2 years to complete. We had some snacks and refreshments looking out onto a beautiful view of the valley at the rear. We presented Moses and his family with some gifts after a speech from his wife Debra.

In the evening, we enjoyed the customary game of volleyball. However, there was more spice than usual and some short fuses were exposed during the game. In the end all was well and the beef was quashed