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2007 PROJECTS

HOSANNA SCHOOL

KISENYI SHANTY TOWN

KAMPALA

St David's College Team visited Uganda from 9-22 July

The team worked in Kisenyi shanty town in Kampala, completing a classroom building project and running an activity programme in the school.

Below are pictures of the school and an abandoned classroom building project. We aim to complete the building and improve the school games facilities as wel as running creative activity sessions with the children and encourage the whole community through the football project.

Conditions in the school and shanty town are desperately poor and deprived

Above is the abandoned building project. We are looking to raise £5000 to finish this project and improve the games and play facilities in the school compound (below)

CAMPSITE PROJECT

The St David's College Team visited the campsite in July, making plans for the visit of the Leeds Met. Team.

The Leeds Met Team were in Uganda from 24 July until late August. Sarah Reynolds and Natalie Robinson led a combined team with past pupils from St David's College in Llandudno.

The team will be helping to construct a permanent campsite near Queen Elizabeth National Park. The land for the campsite is about 10 minutes from the National Park with stunning views at the last visit elephants could be seen from site. The site is close to a small village and is next to a small school.

The aim is to provide a site to run short activity holidays for young people from the shanty towns and for children from orphanages. The teamran two 3 day activity holidays during August and also taught in Chamboura school, next to the campsite.

AMELIA BARBER PROJECT

Amelia visited Uganda in February to fact find for a craft trade project - TRADE-LINK. She intends to develop this in very poor communities providing a means of trading their craft artefacts in UK in small local outlets and linking these UK communities with the communities in Uganda where the goods are made. She will then return in July and August to develop the project further and spend time with the local communities establishing a relationship with the people and work alongside them making the artefacts.

Below are pictures of the refugee community - these are mainly women who have fled Northern Uganda, their husbands killed by the LRA

Below a batique studio

The refugees, mainly women and children, work in the quarries and break stone by hand to make gravel. Trade-Link hopes to free them from this gruelling work