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| From Uganda 2011 |
Three of the Women of the Inner Wheel met us at the airport this afternoon and -- really -- the drive from the airport, across Kampala to the East side, took longer than the final portion of our flight from Addis Ababa to Entebbe. Tomorrow is the first day of school in Kampala and the streets were packed with cars and conveyances and the odd small herd of horned cattle. The weather, however, was perfect and we did not mind the 80 degree (F) temperatures and the soft breezes one bit.
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| From Uganda 2011 |
When Rotary Clubs were for men only, these Women of the Inner Wheel were originally the wives of Rotarians. Now, however, the Women of the Inner Wheel are all Rotarians themselves.
Sleeping Children is one of the main charities of the Inner Wheel of Kampala. Part of this group has spent the better part of the past year identifying children who would need a bedkit, procuring at the best prices the items for the bedkit, compiling the disparate items into each child’s bedkit, and selecting sites in and around Kampala where the 6,000 bedkits can be handed to 6,000 children.
This is a lot of organizing and these women are up to the task!
The Canadian group is ready to start their work tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. They are a bit weary after their fairly lengthy voyage and, at the moment, only ask that those at home water the plants!
Mary-Jo Lange
for the Uganda 2011 SCAW Team
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