Monday 1st - Wednesday 3rd February
Steve & Tanya spent 2 days at Yala visiting Mama Eunice and the 42 children in the home.
We arrived at 2pm after a long drive from Kampala, Uganda with David Kabiswa from ACET. It was our first visit to the Home for nearly 3 years.
The children were there to meet us, having been given permission to take the afternoon off school. After lunch the children sang for us & the gilrs performed traditional Luo dances, wearing Rianna's Fund t-shirts and grass skirts. Eunice introduced us to the children & the workers at the Children's Home. It was a really relaxed afternoon & amazing to see how much the children had grown up since last seeing them. Cedric who was the smallest & youngest when the home opened has grown up strong and healthy.
We returned the following day and discussed future plans for the Home and how the children are progressing. We then did a tour of the Yala site including the Nursery school children in their lessons & the poultry project with over 100 chickens. Later on we met up with some of the children in the School Fees programme, including Betty who graduated in Education last month from Makerere University.
In the afternoon the children came back from school & we all had lunch together. After lunch we showed the a scrap book and read out letters from some children in the UK, with Mama Eunice explaining to the little ones in Luo. We then gave the children some gifts, including pencil sets, skipping ropes & bubbles. These were put to immediate use!
It was good to have a chat with the older boys, James, Mark & David (now 14 years old) & to hear about the Rianna's Dynamos football team. They are hoping to enter their second tournament later in the year. We spent the afternoon chatting with the children and taking group and individual photographs of them all. The photography session took longer than expected due to interruptions by Mama Eunice tucking in the boys shirts and turning over the girls collars!
On Wednesday we called in to the Home on the way back to Uganda. It was very quiet with all the children at school and we took time to say goodbye & thanks to Mama Eunice, Patrick & Lillian for their hospitallity and great work with children. The children in the home all seem so healthy and contented - one big extended family!
Afterwards we headed for the long drive (5 and a half hours) over the border to Jinja in Uganda to meet up with Jon & John who had arrived the previous evening.
Link to Rianna's Furaha Childrens Home on the website;
http://www.riannasfund.org/Riannas%20Furaha%20Childrens%20Home.htm
Steve & Tanya.
Steve & Tanya spent 2 days at Yala visiting Mama Eunice and the 42 children in the home.
We arrived at 2pm after a long drive from Kampala, Uganda with David Kabiswa from ACET. It was our first visit to the Home for nearly 3 years.
The children were there to meet us, having been given permission to take the afternoon off school. After lunch the children sang for us & the gilrs performed traditional Luo dances, wearing Rianna's Fund t-shirts and grass skirts. Eunice introduced us to the children & the workers at the Children's Home. It was a really relaxed afternoon & amazing to see how much the children had grown up since last seeing them. Cedric who was the smallest & youngest when the home opened has grown up strong and healthy.
We returned the following day and discussed future plans for the Home and how the children are progressing. We then did a tour of the Yala site including the Nursery school children in their lessons & the poultry project with over 100 chickens. Later on we met up with some of the children in the School Fees programme, including Betty who graduated in Education last month from Makerere University.
In the afternoon the children came back from school & we all had lunch together. After lunch we showed the a scrap book and read out letters from some children in the UK, with Mama Eunice explaining to the little ones in Luo. We then gave the children some gifts, including pencil sets, skipping ropes & bubbles. These were put to immediate use!
It was good to have a chat with the older boys, James, Mark & David (now 14 years old) & to hear about the Rianna's Dynamos football team. They are hoping to enter their second tournament later in the year. We spent the afternoon chatting with the children and taking group and individual photographs of them all. The photography session took longer than expected due to interruptions by Mama Eunice tucking in the boys shirts and turning over the girls collars!
On Wednesday we called in to the Home on the way back to Uganda. It was very quiet with all the children at school and we took time to say goodbye & thanks to Mama Eunice, Patrick & Lillian for their hospitallity and great work with children. The children in the home all seem so healthy and contented - one big extended family!
Afterwards we headed for the long drive (5 and a half hours) over the border to Jinja in Uganda to meet up with Jon & John who had arrived the previous evening.
Link to Rianna's Furaha Childrens Home on the website;
http://www.riannasfund.org/Riannas%20Furaha%20Childrens%20Home.htm
Steve & Tanya.
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