In response to the "adopt a classroom" post a week or so ago, I have had a couple of groups of American school children interested in learning more about life in the village. So I am going to post a series of life in the village. These will be from the perspective of the children here. Part 1 will be basic information and then in the future will shadow certain children.
If you are reading this info for the first time and desire to help... here are some ways you too can help...
@sponsor a child through icn.net and search for Uganda... or message me and I will hand pick a child for you! It is less than 40 $ a month to provide schooling, meals, healthcare, and supplies for a child.... less than one cup of coffee per day!
@invest in a project...currently we are building a kitchen to serve meals out of but there is always a project to be done... donations can be made through In the Field ministries and they are tax deductible (inthefieldministries.org). Will be posting a list of projects soon.
@adopt a classroom... I posted a list that was needed of supplies and such. Have heard that sending the packages from the US is quite costly so a couple of cost saving ideas...remove the extra packaging and pack things in ziplocs...send them through USPS as cheap as possible as there is no reason to expedite...send them down with someone coming to visit or for some things sending money through ITFM and we can get certain things in country.
@we are looking for willing hands and hearts to come down on short term mission projects... would love to have doctors and dentists to provide medical care... teachers to help the local teachers wiith ideas... builders or carpenters...musicians...pastors...and the list could go on and on... if you have a willing heart the Lord can use you!
@sponsor a child through icn.net and search for Uganda... or message me and I will hand pick a child for you! It is less than 40 $ a month to provide schooling, meals, healthcare, and supplies for a child.... less than one cup of coffee per day!
@invest in a project...currently we are building a kitchen to serve meals out of but there is always a project to be done... donations can be made through In the Field ministries and they are tax deductible (inthefieldministries.org). Will be posting a list of projects soon.
@adopt a classroom... I posted a list that was needed of supplies and such. Have heard that sending the packages from the US is quite costly so a couple of cost saving ideas...remove the extra packaging and pack things in ziplocs...send them through USPS as cheap as possible as there is no reason to expedite...send them down with someone coming to visit or for some things sending money through ITFM and we can get certain things in country.
@we are looking for willing hands and hearts to come down on short term mission projects... would love to have doctors and dentists to provide medical care... teachers to help the local teachers wiith ideas... builders or carpenters...musicians...pastors...and the list could go on and on... if you have a willing heart the Lord can use you!
Now onto the regularly scheduled post... Life in the Village part one...
Uganda is a land locked country on the continent of Africa.
It is right on the equator and has 2 seasons... wet and dry. Wet season runs from August to November. Temperatures range in the 70's to 80's year round. If it gets below 72, you will find us in heavy coats or sweaters and boots because we think it is COLD.
It is right on the equator and has 2 seasons... wet and dry. Wet season runs from August to November. Temperatures range in the 70's to 80's year round. If it gets below 72, you will find us in heavy coats or sweaters and boots because we think it is COLD.
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| The view of the village from the school veranda. The poles will be the walls of the new kitchen. |
Our village of Nabisooto is up above a swamp. We have lots of mosquitos especially during rainy season. Due to all these mosquitos we are told to sleep inside nets at night. If we don't, we end up very sick with malaria. Our houses are built out of mud bricks and dirt floors.
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| Mamma Vencencia's current "kitchen" making school lunches |
Our school is Integrity Primary School and it currently has four classes ... baby (ages 3~4), middle (5-6) and top class (6-7) and P1. Our school day as a Top class and P1 student goes from 7am to 4pm... the younger siblings in baby and middle class go home at 1pm. At school we learn how to write and spell...we learn our numbers and how to count... we also learn basic hygiene skills to keep ourselves clean like washing our hands with soap and brushing our teeth. Lunch is from 1 to 2 pm and we eat porridge. Mamma Vencencia is our school cook and her kitchen is a campfire under a lean to to keep the rain off. A new kitchen to serve more children is currently being built.
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| Numbers in Luganda |
The language we speak is known as Luganda but we learn English at school. After school we do chores... some of our chores include getting water from the bore hole in the middle of the village... digging dirt for planting food... sweeping the dirt inside of the house and the compound around the house... washing our clothes in a tub... and moving the goats and cows to a new location for them to eat.
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| Playing futbol at recess |
When we are not in school or doing chores we like to play futbol (American soccer) for the boys or net ball for the girls...or play with our friends. We walk everywhere we go as very few people have a vehicle in the village so riding in a car is a real treat! Most of us have grown up here and never been outside of Busunju.
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| Eating lunch at school... porridge and cassava |
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| Working on building the new kitchen |
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| This is our hand washing station... we just learned how to use soap and clean the dirt from under our nails |
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| We write our daily assignments from the board into our notebooks. Today we are learning about healthy foods to eat. |
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| We are waiting on the porch outside of the clinic to brush our teeth. |
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| We love to brush our teeth!! |
In part two we will look at some of our favorites!
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