Haileybury Youth Trust: First Day with HYT

Hi, we are Ryan and Rebecca the latest HYT volunteers from Haileybury School. Today we experienced our first “working” day of the six months we are out in Uganda. After some office administration work in the morning, we started our afternoon with a visit to Naminya where HYT has recently built a new kitchen for the primary school. Seeing the contrast between the previous kitchen ( a small sheltered area on the grass) with the new brick kitchen equipped with HYT’s own energy saving stoves, quickly demonstrated to us how much the work HYT does can help communities in Uganda.

The newly built HYT kitchen block at Naminya

We look forward to returning next Thursday to test the new stove as we hope it will be the first of many to come; saving one third of the firewood needed for a normal oven and costing much less to produce.

Next, we went to see HELP International School in Masese Village where HYT has recently finished construction on a two water tanks, a classroom block and a kitchen. Having seen the work that has been achieved there and meeting some of the children who benefit from it, we can’t wait to go to Namaganda Village ( one of HYT’s current sites) next week and get stuck in.