HYT finished its most recent water tank at St Matia Mulumba School almost a month ago, and after letting it set, we were able to get our creative heads on, find our favourite painting apparel and head north to the school with our finest paint brushes. After much debate, we decided to design our tank using a ‘renaissance’ theme and settled on the colour combination of Peanut and Beetlenut. The school was very pleased with the final outcome of their brand new water tank which, after just a month, was full with clean, usable water.
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| Michelangelo (Mr Wyndham), Da Vinci (Mr Tristan) and Botticelli (Mr Freddie) produce another HYT masterpiece |
Last month saw the beginning of 3 new projects, making HYT
very busy with 5 projects on the go, including work for all their trainees. This
has meant regular visits to check up on progress, starting with visits
to the Mutai, Buyala and Naminage sites.
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| Progress at Mutai on a double classroom block |
The Buyala project started just last week and has already had
levelling and block-making begin for a new classroom block.
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| Progress as levelling gets started at Buyala |
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| Freddie and Tristan show the school how it's done |
HYT has finished their last project for Rotary, Naminage
Mixed Primary School, and so the team headed up to check up on the recently
completed water tanks and latrines.
Tristan ‘inspects’
the new latrine...
As the newest ‘One Village at a Time’ project commenced at Kymenulo,
we thought it would be a great time for our first stay in the village. Using
Uganda’s finest forms of public transport, the Matatu (taxis used to the
capacity of a bus) and the Boda Boda (motorbikes used to the capacity of a
taxi), we made it, unscathed, to our home for the next week.
We soon got stuck into helping Freddo (Head Trainer), Musa
(Deputy Head Trainer) and HYT’s 8 new trainees with the murram excavation in preparation
for the use of it in our ISSBs.
Digging up murram at 1V6
Due to Kymenulo being so close to our 1V5 site, St Andrews,
we also got the chance to spend a day there checking up on the completion of
the Laboratory and helping tidy it up.
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| The finished Laboratory at 1V5, ready for painting It was nice for us to be able to experience life away from Jinja town and to see how a majority of Ugandans live their lives. Seeing how grateful the schools are and how fortunate they feel for HYT’s aid is very rewarding. St Andrew’s school’s attendance, since the beginning of HYT’s involvement, has gone up by 20% and the Laboratory is not even in use yet. It is very rare in Uganda to have access to facilities such as a Laboratory and we hope that it will significantly improve the level of Science taught at this school. We enjoyed our first experience working in the village and are both looking forward to our next stay. |