2011 Project Work at the Maternity Site from Tim Hall on Vimeo.

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Maya School Project

The Maternity Project

Uganda from the Road

The Beads Community

Hosannah School and Church

There’s something about the action…the togetherness, the dynamic of this photograph which symbolizes the team this year.

Hands and eyes – how Ugandan is that!

Happy young people…raw human contact – how we have lost this!

This year was very much about water – here’s the spring that supplies this village – it has flowed since ‘time immemorial’…but how hard to fetch each day – I hope we will make the lives of some of these villagers that much easier by pumping it uphill to our storage tanks…how vital it is to the Maternity Clinic…thank you to all who funded this project.

The sheer joy and love of learning

Compassion and generosity pour out once the plug is removed

Never not surrounded by children…

There’s a deep sadness in those eyes

Windows into beautiful souls…

Desperate children, desperate health issues, desperately needy communities…

How much attention can one ‘Muzunguesse’ take?

We see a far horizon but we tell the story and invite you to adventure with us as the story unfolds and the horizon draws closer.  Trust the dream, let the story generate faith and draw you in…you are now part of an amazing story…

Where is beauty?  Is it in the eyes of the photographer and is his skill to share it with the world?

The beauty is in an expression that reveals the quality of a soul frozen in time and captured for all to behold…

Actions…

frozen in time…

It’s the sheer blatant naughtiness!!

How much energy and passion and fun can be stored in one Welshman?

Actually – may be it’s just the people…!!

This year we worked in three schools and visited a further two, we were unable to visit our two shanty town schools because of the terrorist outbreak and our need for ultimate caution.

These pictures from the School close to Maya Maternity Site

(This school is now partnered with the primary School in Betws y Coed)

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Glen Milner-Hughes teaches an English class and…

Jenny Kelsall helps out

Joseph Samson helps out in a Maths Class

Emily Lucker provides 1:1 help with a baby class

We were privileged to have a British gymnastics coach for our pupils to work alongside

Busy and very happy children

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These pictures from Kyambra School – next to the campsite.

Andrew Bohana teaches a Maths Class

Lily Fitzpatrick and Lucy Nield write post cards to bring back to Ysgol San Sior Primary School in Llandudno

…even…cricket!!

We had two nurses with us this year (Dianne, Sue Moore’s cousin from Tasmania and Phil Hufton past SDC pupil) as a result we were able to run health clinics and tackle a number of injuries and skin conditions.

These pictures from a remote rural school in South West – Kyfuro primary School

We were entertained to songs, dance and drama by the school children and in turn…

…Titch pulls out his party tricks!

Lily Fitzpatrick and Holly Booth taking a craft lesson

An intense Maths lesson with ‘Bohana’…

…and a little more relaxed with Sue Moore…

Meanwhile General Zoe takes command..

These pictures from a tiny and extremely poor rural school we visited about 10km off road

A motto we could not ignore…we went back…we will keep going back until we find that future smile on their faces

Bonding times

and is this that future smile?

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Each time we visit Uganda we try to visit the children sponsored in school by the friends of Link International and St David’s College.

These 11 children at the ‘Beads Community’ are all supported in school as a result of the beads we buy and sell.

Harriet is Amelia’s friend and is the chair person of our group of ladies who make the beads.  She co-ordinates the sponsorship of these children with us.

Emma (Emmanuel Lubega) now lives at our Maternity Site and along with his 2 brothers and baby cousin are looked after by their old grandma.  Emma, and Julius his older brother, are both sponsored and doing well in school.  Emma is sponsored by a Rhos on Sea family and Julius by Colwyn Bay Lions.

Grandma, who stands in the gap for her children, the parents who have died or simply ‘gone missing’.

This year we were unable to visit Katwe United Primary School because of the terrorist activity, but we do have 3 children sponsored there and doing well.

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Campsite Projects 2010 – Our campsite
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Campsite 2010 – Game Drive and Boat Trip
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Campsite Projects 2010 – St Joseph’s Rwentuha School
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Campsite Projects 2010 – Kyfuro School
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Campsite Projects 2010 – Kyambura School
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Kampala Projects 2010 – Beads Community
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Uganda Projects 2010 – on the road
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Kampala Projects 2010 – Team
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Kampala projects 2010 – Maya Maternity Clinic
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Kampala Projects 2010 – Maya School
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Branaby’s Blog with Great Stories

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Off to work we go…

Trench dug…

Tank installed….

Pipes laid…

Water flows…and John phones a friend!!

…and all that needs doing is dig another 0.5km of trench to connect to the spring…

The next series of pictures show the work at the spring and the pump fully operational, taking water from the spring to the 10,000 litre tank a kilometre up the hill!

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Well done to the team!  vehicles cleared from customs and now waiting up the coast in Watamu for the Kenya Drive team to arrive on Saturday.  the vehicles, two Pajeros and one Ambulance will be driven across Kenya and arrive in Kampala, Uganda as the pupil team arrives on 6th July.

As the main team arrived so did the vehicles…to see the whole story see Barnaby’s Blog entries (click here)

Fancy doing the next drive click here for more information

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