After a long, challenging, but most importantly rewarding week, we decided that the team had earned a well deserved lie in – a whole extra hour in bed! This morning was spent with 4th Mercy Scout group who listened intently to Del’s story about the origin of scouts and how…
Hey All, Aliesha & Asia here!! It is with a heavy heart that we are writing this blog on our last night here at the magical place that is Butterfly Space! This place has not only captured our hearts, but also our minds! You hear about these places that affect…
Hey it’s ya gals Mollie and Joey here. Sorry for no blog update yesterday emotions were very high being the middle of the trip and the end of the week coming peoples moods were low! In a nutshell we started our day early and headed to school for a day…
Helen here, team leader, writing the blog at the end of a very successful week in Acholi Quarters. The team are all fine, but tired and emotional having had to say goodbye to the children that they have worked with all week, and through whom they’ve had perspectives on life…
Well, this morning started with a torrential downpour after breakfast – lovely African weather! As a result, we set off slightly later than usual, but still managed to arrive on time in the now blazing heat. Being in the room we are meant to be in and having more space…
Note: Really sorry for the delay in the blog updates; we are really struggling with signal here. So we may be a day or so behind – so we do apologise! 🙁 Hi guys! Summer and Kitty here! Today we all woke up at 6am to the sound of Rebekah…
Home visit 1 – Toni, Alice, Kelsey, Megan and Miss Barnes We were struck by the lack of light as we walked in to the tiny house. The lady was very welcoming and invited us to sit on the bed, which was smaller than a normal single bed. When hearing…
We started our day with the usual 7.15am breakfast. The weather was slightly cooler this morning, and we even considered taking a hoodie with us! Teaching the children this morning started off as normal, however we had a change of scenery as we were finally able to teach in our…
Hi everyone, Bayleigh and Rebecca today! Today was our first day at Stepping Stones school. We started by getting on the school bus at 7am, we began at the first stop with 15 people and along the way we ended up on the bus with 50 team members and school…
Today has been an interesting day of learning, although of course we are constantly learning new things here in Uganda In line with routine, we had breakfast at 7.15 – a lovely combination of fruit, cereals, bread and spreads were laid out for us. At 8.15 we left for the…
