Sports galla and schools

Outside Entebbe, at Nsumba Orphanage, some of the students participating in the Aid In Meeting programme, are located. And on Saturday and Sunday, the students organized a massive sports galla for the kids - to great success. I was not present myself, but from what I've heard, the spirit went through the roof. Especially when the winning football team ran rounds around the football field, carrying the grand prize on their backs - a live goat. They basically all went nuts, the girls cheering with palm leaves, the other teams shouting and waving their shirts around their heads, and the poor goat being tossed around between the members of the winning team. And the football was just one of three diciplines, they also competed in volleyball and netball.

In other news, the guys in Arua went back to Kamapala during the weekend and left behind them some pretty awesome work. In collaboration with Lions Club Sandnes/Riska in Norway, Lions Club Arua and Lions Aid Norway - Eruba Primary School will get a spanking new school building, which they sorely need. Oliba Seeds, another school in Arua have now got cement floor in all the dormatories, thanks to swift action and collaborative efforts between the norwegian students, the Oliba Seeds school board and again Lions Club Arua. They also had time to hand over magazines, playing cards and games in braille, for 12 blind children at another school, in addition to really get to know some of LC Arua's key members.

I also bumbed into Merethe which is working in the Kamwokya slum with KCCC yesterday, and she told me things were going pretty great. Today, for instance, they are organizing a youth health day for the kids/youth in Kamwokya, having work shops and free medical treatment. The group also brought with them 2000 condoms from Norway (I think they got them from the Red Cross) to distribute, but one of the not so fortunate things about KCCC is that they promote abstinence, not condoms, to prevent Aids and HIV (long story, catholic church etc.). So those condoms have yet to be put to good use, but they were confident they'd get them out to someone who wants them somehow.

I see my time is up, so that's it for now!