Visiting Uganda

Claire and I conducted our exploratory trip of Uganda from 13^th-31^st July.  It wasn’t long before God started introducing us to helpful contacts.  On the same flight fro

m Dubai we met a young Canadian couple, who were heading back to Uganda to visit a school that they had spent a year teaching in …very interesting to hear of their experiences and reflections.  Upon our arrival, we spent a few days acclimatising in Kampala at 

Namirembe Guest House; coincidentally a few doors down the corridor from our new Canadian friends!  We all went out for a meal at ‘Garden City’ (the western mall in Kampala) one evening, a

nd while we were there we happened to bump into the headmaster of the school that they had taught in; even they were not expecting that!  The headmaster (Revd Canon Paul Jeffries, also Ca

nadian) is a top man doing a great job.  His experience of the country’s education system and involvement as a westerner will be very useful to us especially as his school is in Bush

enyi, only 1½ hours away (by car) from where we’ll be in Ibanda.  It also turns out that his deputy is the husband of one of the governors at Nyakatukura Memorial School (NMS).

It was not all that difficult adapting to the climate in Kampala …it rained.  We even had a thunderstorm on the Tuesday evening!

Anyway, a particularly fantastic person that we met was Garry Ion.  A man who has lived and worked in Uganda for 14 years; he works with CMS (Church Mission

 Society) in south Sudan, though is based in Kampala.  We had a lot of fun hanging out with Garry both before our visit to NMS and after.  In fact, Garry drove us to NMS on Wednesday 16^th, a 5½ hour trip.

So, on to Ibanda, and NMS…