The weekend’s been pretty busy!
Friday night we were invited by a guy called Moses who’s a painter to a party at Kiira Kids International. We weren’t sure at all what to expect but it ended up being an evening with us twelve from the guest house, some other volunteers from England and Germany, and Ugandans who run different charity projects. The idea of the evening was to get to know us and to talk to us about their projects as most of them are funded out of their own pockets. For example, Moses runs the Street Kids project, he picks up kids begging off the streets in the mornings and takes them to a room off Main St which he rents with money from his paintings. A lot of the time the kids need to go to hospital because of infected cuts and illnesses and the treatment is again paid for by Moses and the volunteers, so hopefully the idea is to get sponsership from England. In the weekdays they teach them literacy and art but in the evening the kids have nowhere to go but the streets again. Another guy we met was running Son Rise baby orphanage with his sister out of their own pocket as well. They have 15 to 20 babies at one time and when they arrive they’re often suffering from malnutrition and are suspected HIV positive. Again, they’re looking to English charities for sponsership. We then all went to Nile View casino and nightclub for some more lighthearted socialising!
A couple of the boys at the Guest House have joined Jinja Nile rugby club and played a team with 7 Ugandan national team players on Saturday…needless to say the defeat resembled a true BCS match! In the evening we went to a rafting campsite and watched an Ozzie/Kiwi band play some timeless classics, was AWESOME :)
Yesterday (Monday) Joe, Dom and myself went to Son Rise Orphanage. At the party on Friday we met Moses’ brother, Joseph, who runs this orphanage with his sister out of their own pocket as well. They have around 15 babies at one time ranging from new borns (the youngest is ten days old!) to 2 years old. They often arrive suffering from illnesses such as TB, malnutrition or malaria but luckily at the moment none of them are HIV positive. We arrived as the older kids were having lunch, had a tour around and then got stuck in. Mark, a 3 month old baby who had previously suffered from malnutrition, is a little legend! But it was great fun to be silly with the kids although by 6pm we were EXHAUSTED! They have so much energy and seem pretty happy, well fed and loved :)
Joe with Ali:
Dom with Trust (I think…) and Junior:
Loving it here so far, we’re finally getting stuck in to projects now. My clothes are pretty much orange because of the dust, I’m constantly washing my feet and hair, ants are EVERYWHERE (shower, washbasin, bread!) and the birds out here are HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE! Here are a couple of pictures SO FAR…
The Busoga Trust Guest House:
The graduation party on our first day:
My roomies, Sophie and Rachel:
10/12 of the gap years at the Guest House:
Swimming at the Nile Resort:
The MASSIVE birds:
Lots of love and stuff <3
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