Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page. This summer I'll be travelling with 5 other girls to Uganda on behalf of a charity called soft power education. You can check the website out here...  www.softpowereducation.com

We will be staying and working at a Kosozi Primary school, near Jinja (2 hours from the capital city of Kampala). This school has a total of 798 students and they currently only have 8 classrooms for 7 year groups. This means that there are over 100 children in each classroom and many of the children have to travel over 7 kilometres a day to get there.

The school and the parent committee came together to attempt to build two extra classroom blocks, however due to lack of money in the community they have been unable to finish the buildings. Soft Power Education has therefore agreed to help them finish this, giving them two extra classrooms; finishing these buildings will be our group task. If we have time we will also paint them, adding 'teaching aids', educational pictures which the teachers use to enhance their lessons.

The £600 I aim to rise will be spent only on the project, paying for materials (cement etc.) and for the builder's wages. During our stay we will be sleeping on basic mattresses in a classroom with basic facilities e.g. long-drop toilet and no shower (we are encouraged to rig one up!). Although this will be a challenge, I hope it will be a great experience and I will learn a lot from it. 

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