October has been a busy month for HYT Uganda and has brought with it the arrival of one familiar face and one not so familiar to Uganda. Russell Matcham arrived on the morning of the 17th and visited HYT project sites past, present and future as well as meeting up with old friends during his week back in Uganda. Although it was a fleeting visit, Russell managed to see and advise upon a wide variety of work done by the HYT team.
Another arrival this month was the new HYT volunteer Jay Lane. He will be working in Uganda for around 2 months, until early December. Jay will be working alongside the HYT Uganda team as well as using his sporting and academic skills in voluntary work at Lords Meade Vocational College.
This month, HYT's A-Team set to work on a 20,000litre water tank in Lake Site primary school in a poorer suburb of Jinja town. The job was funded by Bujagali Trust (HYT's sister-company). Under the leadership of Philip and Fred (senior trainers), the highly motivated and trained Ugandan building team were able to finish the job in just 12 days! This will soon be painted and will become another completed water tank to add to the ever increasing number of these invaluable and cost effective water provision solutions.
Meanwhile, another branch of the ever-growing HYT team has continued work at Masese, partnering with HELP international to build a primary school. The work at Masese has been going well and the new classroom blocks, being supported by HYT and HELP international, are close to having the building work started. The ISSB blocks, used in the HYT buildings, are created onsite using murum, a Ugandan soil. This compression of the bricks happens on site, therefore slashing the possibility of the bricks being broken, and reducing the cost of the bricks and therefore the building as well.
The new 'One Village' location, Kizzigo, is now ready to be started in the first week of November. The HYT supported building work in this area will be more of a community minded effort. Previously, HYT has just worked in one school in an area, however this new 'One Village' will include building new facilities in three neighbouring schools. These schools include two primary, and one secondary school, all with motivated and driven headteachers.
