Cytûn Llandudno -
Saint David's College
THE
UGANDA LINK PROJECT
2005
The Team in
Uganda
At the beginning of July seven 16 year olds
from St David's College spent 3 weeks at John Njendahayo's Link Centre in
Kampala. The centre has been build in partnership with a number of
churches and local Christians together with St David's College.
John Njendahayo's Link Centre in
Kampala
The purpose of the centre is to
enable young people to come together from Rwanda and Uganda with young people
from Wales in order to share faith, skills and their life experiences.
The Chain Gang -
passing the bricks!
Two teachers from St David's
College looked after the team whilst Sarah and Natalie from 15+/Mission House
led a programme with the team in a Shanty Town School at Katwe.
Sarah with one of the children
The programme involved building two new
classrooms and teaching art, craft, dance and games with the
children.
Work in
progress
For the first time the shanty town
dwellers saw white people serving their people and especially their
children. For one old man who watched over the school compound wall this
experience brought him to a place of forgiveness and restoration with white
people. This summarises the whole purpose of the project - bringing peace
and forgiveness between people.
More work in
progress
The centre is available for any
young people from our communities and churches here in Wales. We have one
18 year old spending several months of his GAP year going out in November.
We are seeking wider expertese over the next few years to really
establish the Christian Ministry and teaching from the Centre and to develop
close links with the local churches around the Centre.
John Njendahayo at work
It is also likely that other
skills will be required to establish IT teaching and courses on a commercial
basis from the centre to make this a self sustaining project, as well as
building and electrical skills.
The
finished classrooms
Next summer another
small team of 16 year olds will be spending several weeks at the Centre and
working in the same school.
Inside Katwe school
Playtime at Katwe school
Thumbs up from the
children
The team at home
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