Wednesday 25 May 2011

Uganda: Batting 1000

We have just finished 500 bedkits for 500 kids in Gombe, an hour or so west of Kampala.  
 
As always, the Ladies of the Inner Wheel batted 1000 -- not 499 children, not 501 children -- but 500 on the button were at the site dressed in their new school uniform and ready to receive their 500 kits.  Which they did.  Graciously.
 
From Uganda 2011
How these women are so exact totally baffles me.  
 
An incredible amount of hard work and dedication is involved on their part.
 
They always amaze.
 
Returning to Kampala, the van stopped at Tuf Foam Ltd, the mattress company where the Ugandan distribution’s 6,000 bed mattresses were made.
 
From Uganda 2011


I could not believe my eyes.  Two huge trucks were ready to be loaded with 1,000 mattresses and bedkits that we will use in two distributions tomorrow.  The ladies of the Inner Wheel who were not at today’s distribution, were there at the factory counting bed rolls, counting shirts, skirts, shorts, flip flops sheets, etc.  A final final count.  By hand.
 
Perfection demands.
 
Uganda 2011


Mary-Jo Lang
for the Uganda 2011 SCAW Team


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