First Few Days on the Ground!

Our team traveled to Gulu, Uganda to meet and work with teachers at Parents' Junior School. Lulu Buck co-taught age-appropriate lessons to students ages 3 - 12 using her published children’s book, Sue’s Sky.

With PJS teachers and Mwebaza’s team of volunteer educators, students learned about feelings and how to make the classroom a safe space where everyone can express their emotions.

Students shared what makes them happy, angry, loved, and scared. Younger students drew two emotions with colors that they most attributed to that emotion. Older students wrote and drew three things that described who they are.

Mwebaza’s Ugandan and American staff members met with community and school leaders to discuss the momentum of computer literacy, social enterprises, and financial self-sufficiency regarding tuition.

We’re working together to see how we can invest in and build a grain mill. Women in the community would no longer have to travel miles away to mill grain and the school would benefit from small fees charged for usage.

Tomorrow, our friends will check out the apiary social enterprise and create watercolor paintings with the students of their individual “sky”.