On 29th June, 2007, 24 people from Sligo will travel to Bajja Community Primary School, near Masaka, in Uganda. The Sligo Community raised nearly 100,000 Euro over the last year to build a school, kitchen and staff accommodation in Bajja. The school is a Fields of Life project - this is a Christian organisation which is committed to sustainable development and has to date built over 50 schools.
The Sligo group is an inter-church group with an age range from teenager to nearly retired! The team will spend 2 weeks in Uganda working with the community in Bajja: painting the school, working with the women, spending time in the classrooms and enjoying sports with the children. The men plan to construct a football pitch and play area.
Final plans are now being made....injections have been got, malaria tablets are being bought, and discussion centres on what to bring and how to fit in everything that is needed - and whether KLM will allow us to be overweight!
As the weeks proceed this blog will be added to...and while we are away we hope to have opportunities to post updates. We ask family and friends to pray for our preparations, for our safe travel, for our health, for our work in Uganda and of course for the community we will share with in Bajja.
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