Community and orphanage children at UWEC
On Saturday, 20 children from the orphanage and 20 from the local community that RUHU work with, along with Patrick, William and Julius – who helping the children develop their singing and dancing – came to UWEC to show the Yebo team the songs and dances they have been practising and to do some art activities with the volunteers.
In the morning, the children showed us the songs they have been learning since we last 
saw them. In the songs, the children sing about the environment and why they believe it is important that we protect animals and plants for the future. Hearing them sing about how they want to conserve nature was a very inspiring and moving sentiment to hear from such young children.
They also got the volunteers to join in with the dancing which everyone very much enjoyed – although the children seemed to be quite amused by some of our dancing “skills”!
After a delicious lunch of traditional Ugandan food, and a quick swim in the lake to cool off, the children collected flowers from around UWEC and together with the volunteers, and used them to make bookmarks. Despite the children never having done it before, they learnt very quickly and produced some beautiful bookmarks that will be sold at the show.
We will be seeing the children again on Wednesday and are looking forward to seeing how much further they have come with preparing their songs and dancing. Judging by the performances we saw today, it should be very impressive
By Hannah, July 21, 2011 @ 9:59 am
Everyone looks like they are having an amazing time and such exciting work getting ready for the festival….wish I was with you all! It looks such an exciting project!