Two weeks of travel
During the last two weeks we traveled to many parts of the country for partner visits. Straight blue lines on the map show air flights and wiggly green lines show routes by land. The red stars indicate all of our stops.
Jan 27-30 – flew to Kaabong (2 hr), next day drove to Kamion (2 hr), Ik day celebration, and drove to Kotido (5 hrs), church and visited numerous people on Sunday. Monday flew back to Kampala (2 hr) – more photos later.
stop in Moroto on way to Kaabong
students dancing at Ik Day
Feb 4-7 – drove to Gulu (5 hrs), next day drove to Atiak (2 hrs & return); on the 6th met with another partner and on the 7th drove home (5 hrs) stopping at one of our schools (Stella Matutina) and arriving home by 7:30 p.m. – more description later about Atiak.
road to Atiak
brick laying classroom, Gulu
working on new 3-year plan
Feb 8-9 – Sally Jo left home at 6 am with our Program Manager and drove to Kagadi (5 hr), She met with a Women’s group and then had a meeting with another partner arriving at the hotel at 6 p.m. Returned home the next day (5 hrs) – blog post coming.
learning local craft
Feb 11 – Ron left home at 6 am and drove to Kamuli (3hr) with 2 MCC staff members to do a financial review and gather stories for newsletters with our partners there, home by 6 pm. Photo below shows Ron with staff of partner organization.
doing a financial review
Feb 15 – R-Day! All our Reports for Akron must be in the database. We are madly trying to finish them in-between other activities.
Most of the time we love our work–especially the opportunity to travel and meet wonderful people. We do get tired!