First day of Project Work
4 Comments Published by The Uganda '07 team on Monday, June 18, 2007 at 11:39 AM.
Forgive the lengthy and incredibly unwitty post. Wow, we're tired.
Hello everyone back home!
Don't have much time to read up? Highlights from the day: Live chicken brought back to camp as a gift from Care and Compassion project... still alive (for now); African Wasp attacks Sean Davis and leaves stinky welt; painting project results in 3 blue team-members ie. human sponges; Subteam prepares to lead 80 children in VBS - shows to find 200; a great team debrief of the day had by all.
Otherwise, read on!
Today was the first day of each team’s project work. If you’ve checked the schedule you can see that we, as a larger team, are divided into five smaller sub-teams with each team being assigned to a different area of work for the day. Here’s how we’re doing so far.
One team led the children in a VBS and were surprised to arrive to all children lined up out front with a huge song and dance routine prepared as a welcome. If that wasn’t a big enough surprise, imagine how they felt when, having prepared to lead 80 – 100 kids on a VBS, they arrive to a mob of 200 children dancing and singing and screaming.
Emotions ran high and the day went well, but sleep will come easily tonight!
The team in charge of giving the house-mom’s a break today was able to go down and see Michael Masembe’s house.
They were able to walk the children home from VBS to the ten-acre site – 3 people with 2 arms each = 6 possibly held children at one time. 200 – 6 = 194 children clawing their way into the arms of our teammates for the entire (uphill) walk home. More good sleep to be had tonight.
Other projects included the ‘Care and Compassion’ and the work project. Work projects thus far will consist of repainting the children’s houses on the inside to bring some colour. Two painters have been hired from the local community to help us with this project, and being professional painters they can definitely get the job done quickly, but at what price Taping and drop sheets do not exist, instead replaced by the team hurriedly cleaning as much spilled paint as possible.
Care and compassion involves the subteam going out into the community and meeting with local residents who are in need of help. This was definitely a challenge – the first home attended had an older man who could hardly walk, and was living with his two daughters since his other sons had passed away. The only son living with them was thought to have been possessed by a demon at an early age, and the team had an opportunity to pray over this man and his father and their family. Other houses were similar circumstances, defining ‘nothing’ to a new extent otherwise unimaginable if not seen. But the thankfulness and kindness and hospitality of the people of Uganda, even in the worst situations, is the most incredible thing ever and is hard to explain.
Also see the pictures below. First picture – Harriet, who has been diagnosed with late stages of HIV and is currently in hospital. Upon our visit we were thankful to find that she was recovering and doing better than in the past.
Second picture – Brent White having a blast with little Wasswa.
Hello everyone back home!
Don't have much time to read up? Highlights from the day: Live chicken brought back to camp as a gift from Care and Compassion project... still alive (for now); African Wasp attacks Sean Davis and leaves stinky welt; painting project results in 3 blue team-members ie. human sponges; Subteam prepares to lead 80 children in VBS - shows to find 200; a great team debrief of the day had by all.
Otherwise, read on!
Today was the first day of each team’s project work. If you’ve checked the schedule you can see that we, as a larger team, are divided into five smaller sub-teams with each team being assigned to a different area of work for the day. Here’s how we’re doing so far.
One team led the children in a VBS and were surprised to arrive to all children lined up out front with a huge song and dance routine prepared as a welcome. If that wasn’t a big enough surprise, imagine how they felt when, having prepared to lead 80 – 100 kids on a VBS, they arrive to a mob of 200 children dancing and singing and screaming.
Emotions ran high and the day went well, but sleep will come easily tonight!
The team in charge of giving the house-mom’s a break today was able to go down and see Michael Masembe’s house.
They were able to walk the children home from VBS to the ten-acre site – 3 people with 2 arms each = 6 possibly held children at one time. 200 – 6 = 194 children clawing their way into the arms of our teammates for the entire (uphill) walk home. More good sleep to be had tonight.
Other projects included the ‘Care and Compassion’ and the work project. Work projects thus far will consist of repainting the children’s houses on the inside to bring some colour. Two painters have been hired from the local community to help us with this project, and being professional painters they can definitely get the job done quickly, but at what price Taping and drop sheets do not exist, instead replaced by the team hurriedly cleaning as much spilled paint as possible.
Care and compassion involves the subteam going out into the community and meeting with local residents who are in need of help. This was definitely a challenge – the first home attended had an older man who could hardly walk, and was living with his two daughters since his other sons had passed away. The only son living with them was thought to have been possessed by a demon at an early age, and the team had an opportunity to pray over this man and his father and their family. Other houses were similar circumstances, defining ‘nothing’ to a new extent otherwise unimaginable if not seen. But the thankfulness and kindness and hospitality of the people of Uganda, even in the worst situations, is the most incredible thing ever and is hard to explain.
Also see the pictures below. First picture – Harriet, who has been diagnosed with late stages of HIV and is currently in hospital. Upon our visit we were thankful to find that she was recovering and doing better than in the past.
Second picture – Brent White having a blast with little Wasswa.
stoked to see the painting pictures.
WOOT!
(That's for Sara)
Thanks for posting! Keep up the good work...
Thanks for this post. Love to read about the things you're all doing...
Jamie and Judy MacD.
I'm so excited for the team! And it's so nice to see pictures and read the updates. I hope you all learn lots....and also have some fun with all those LOVELY children!!