Thanks to your donations...





Well I am on day two of working at Grace Children's Village in Kabale, Uganda. It is great here. I have been very kindly hosted by the charity founder, David Bakeine at his home 4 km away from the site. He has even set me up with his bicycle to get to and from work. Its great! I have gotten quite accustomed to the calls of 'mzungu (white person) how are you?' at least 40 times on my ride to and from the project. Ugandans are very friendly and I'm sure it would take me forever to walk since they all want to shake my hand. It was an adjustment at first being the only white person for miles and being stared at everywhere, but now that I know it is in admiration and wonder and interest, I feel more comfortable. Today at the school I had a funny instance with the kids waiting in line to wash hands after lunch. One grabbed my hand and tried to rub my freckles off. It turned into more than 10 of them touching me to see if I am somehow different than them. Ronald, the head master told me that people in an area like their town can go their entire life without seeing a caucasian person and that it was a great for me to be there and let them experience it.




Soon these kids will have chairs to sit on



Special thanks to a few of my massage clients, Barb and Archie, my Grandmother, Chantelle and Donna Fieldhouse who donated to my trip here! I have agreed that we would like to put our money towards chairs for the entire senior class at the school! Currently they are sitting on the floor in their classroom and David tells me that within 2 weeks each student will have a chair from us!



These kids will have chairs to sit and eat at next week



Last year was the first year that the school had children attending class and they had over 40 students. The community was so happy with the project that this year 91 are registered so far! The limit is 100 students right now, until the current project of building a primary school building is complete. The staff and founders are delighted and surprised at the demand for class space in the program, but really its no wonder when the performance of students in this program far surpasses any other in the area





The shop making the chairs entirely by hand



So a big cheers to us! For furnishing an entire class of students!