May 20, 2017

Today we had an all day training for the teachers in the Teso Region, which Nancy Williams had organized.  She is greatly respected among these schools because of training she has provided over the last three years.  They refer to her as Mama Nancy. We had...

May 19, 2017

Yesterday, we spent the day traveling to the Teso region of Uganda.  It was a 6 hour drive from Kampala with a stop in Jinja for a meal.  Jinga is a town very close to the “scource” of the Nile river. (The Nile flows out of Lake Victoria up...

May 17, 2017

Today marks the half-point of our trip to Uganda!  It was a good day finishing up the workshops at Transform and also having an outing downtown to the market.   Carla and Dale were very encouraged with the enthusiasm in final presentations of each teacher....

May 16, 2017

I love the aroma of cooking over a wood fire, and, even better, the aroma of sauteing onions over a wood fire.  Reminds me of camping in the Colorado mountains.  To the people here in Uganda, it is such a common smell, they are oblivious to it.  In a...

May 15, 2017

Today we started a three day workshop on “Teaching with the End in Mind” at Transform.  We got a late start – students were slow in arriving, but we started at 10:00 with only 4 students.  By lunch time we had 9.   Dale began the...