Author: Elaine Johnson

Betty and I spent our evenings working on our lists of photos of the children. It was like a mega game of "who's who?". We have 160 children and we thought it would be great to get recent pictures! Thank goodness for Ann & Ivan and all their patience as we asked a million times, … Continue reading Last few days

Today was a day filled with adventure and sadness as we visited the families of the village of Buwundo. Surrounded by mud huts, chickens, goats & cows we find children from toddlers to age 7 playing in the dirt with sticks and sucking on sugar cane. When they see Ivan's van, they rush to the … Continue reading Day 7 village visit 1

Today Betty & I spent a couple hours in Jinga while Ann did some shopping for the celebration. We watched the very interesting busyness of the street. The Boda bodas were carrying everything from bales of sugar cane to 2 extra adult passengers to goats, dodging in and out of the traffic of vans, people … Continue reading Day 6

Betty arrived early this morning and she no sooner dropped her bags and we were off to SACU. The children are finished with their academics and now they practice, practice and practice for the big celebration. This is a great time as these children have been given a lifeline to a brighter future if they … Continue reading Day 5

Today I took a short ride from the hotel to see SACU, I am excited to finally see the children and the school in person. Since it is Saturday, there are no classes so the children are not dressed in their uniforms but casual clothes. They have come to school to spend the day practicing … Continue reading Day 2

We stayed overnight in Entebbe due to a very late arrival. We took a picture on the famous couch in the lobby! Then we off for a trip through the cities and the countryside as we headed for St Julian Secondary school in Gaza, here are the sites. Then we arrived at St Julian. We … Continue reading First Day in Uganda