A lot of people would describe an experience like this as ‘once in a lifetime’. I would love to agree with that, but I’m afraid I can’t. It’s not a matter of it being a once in a lifetime opportunity, because charities such as Project Uganda cannot just be a one time chance, especially to the people that we, as a team, intend to help.
In 2007, I was given the offer to travel to Uganda and represent Woodlands school for Project Uganda. Since then, the impact in which the Project has had on my life has been immense. There isn’t a day which goes by when I’m not discussing of fundraising ideas with others, or reminiscing of the memories from the previous trip. I still find it hard to grasp the concept that poverty which I have once witnessed is still continuing, and it’s even harder to realise that to the people we are trying to help identify these harsh conditions as every day life.
In 2007, I was given the offer to travel to Uganda and represent Woodlands school for Project Uganda. Since then, the impact in which the Project has had on my life has been immense. There isn’t a day which goes by when I’m not discussing of fundraising ideas with others, or reminiscing of the memories from the previous trip. I still find it hard to grasp the concept that poverty which I have once witnessed is still continuing, and it’s even harder to realise that to the people we are trying to help identify these harsh conditions as every day life.
When we first visited Uganda, we visited a small fishing village nearby the school we were helping. I remember thinking how difficult it was to comprehend that the conditions we have in England and the conditions we were currently trying to trample through were completely contrasted; and yet the people who live here were more or less the same as us. While we were there, we had children running after us, trying to hold our hands and laughing at us, because we were the different ones, they were completely adapted to the poor conditions in which they have lived in all their lives.
It wasn’t until a few weeks after we arrived back in Derby that we realised how much our previous fundraising did for the school we helped. Pauline Latham showed us photos and video footage of Mirembe School of when she returned back to Uganda. The improvement of their conditions was astounding. Instead of raw brick walls and broken tables, the classrooms had plastered walls and repaired stationary, and the Science classroom actually had apparatus and other necessaries.
The reality that the previous trip bestowed upon myself was astonishing, and the first hand experience that I went through will stay with me for a lifetime, as it gives me a deeper insight into what other charities want and try to do. I hope that this year, now that we have a bigger and even more eager team, that we will be able to raise more money than we did last time, and hopefully when I return to Uganda I’ll be able to use my previous experience and make a bigger and better impact to the people I hope to aid.
Thank you!
It wasn’t until a few weeks after we arrived back in Derby that we realised how much our previous fundraising did for the school we helped. Pauline Latham showed us photos and video footage of Mirembe School of when she returned back to Uganda. The improvement of their conditions was astounding. Instead of raw brick walls and broken tables, the classrooms had plastered walls and repaired stationary, and the Science classroom actually had apparatus and other necessaries.
The reality that the previous trip bestowed upon myself was astonishing, and the first hand experience that I went through will stay with me for a lifetime, as it gives me a deeper insight into what other charities want and try to do. I hope that this year, now that we have a bigger and even more eager team, that we will be able to raise more money than we did last time, and hopefully when I return to Uganda I’ll be able to use my previous experience and make a bigger and better impact to the people I hope to aid.
Thank you!
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