Rains stops play......

Did someone say rainy season?

This was the state of our site last Thursday for many hours....

And the aftermath...

But even with all the rain we are having our amazing roof has kept every single drop on the outside of the building!

Now, would someone like to donate a boat so we can get back to work?

Building borders......

Now, we are community building and everything but this week we added the first twiglings to what will become our boundary hedge...not to keep people out, you understand, but to make the place look nice (it will only be waist height, not a six-metre high thorny barricade).

A willing bunch of volunteers lent their breaking backs and clean fingernails to the task and spent all day digging, planting and getting very sweaty indeed, all in the name of landscaping.

Many thanks to them, here they are in action.....

Meet a fundraiser # 2.....

You can't see her very well but this is Jackie in the throes of her TWELVE AND A HALF KILOMETRE sponsored swim!

Crikey!

Jackie is Soft Power's accounts manager here in Uganda and she put herself through the torture of swimming that far in order to raise funds to pay for a new computer....so far she has raised over 700 quid and more than paid for all the equipment needed. We are all very proud of her...and thoroughly ashamed of our lazy selves for not being able to do something this energetic for Soft Power.

She survived her ordeal and here she is pictured a few hours later....

Nice one Jackie!

Our first course.....!

Even though we are still a few windows short of a building that hasn't stopped us from starting work on the courses that will take place within the Education Centre when it is finally finished!

Pictured below - our first group of willing volunteers who took part in Soft Power's very first 'Leadership, Team Building and Successful Teaching' course. The course ran from 3rd April until 10th April and its aims were to inspire teachers to use creative methods of both working together and providing a student-centred service within their schools.



Those pictured are teachers from Kyabirwa Primary School, Kyabirwa Children's Centre, the manager of Soft Power's Endowoza Art Centre and Paul Daniels, the course facilitator.

We are hoping this pilot course will form the basis of many more Leadership courses to come and will enable us to provide similar courses to the 'high flying youth' of Uganda in order to foster a sense of social responsibility and to promote leadership skills.

For more information on this course and any other aspect of the Education Centre please contact us.

Meet a fundraiser # 1....

This is Aimee, she lives here in Uganda with her family and she is a big supporter of Soft Power. Aimee is pictured visiting one of Soft Power's pre-schools for orphans. She is currently back in the UK on a fund raising mission, trying to drum up support for our projects and we are very grateful for all her efforts! When she returns to Uganda Aimee is going to do a sponsored swim to raise money for us so if she asks you to donate, please give generously..!

Hopefully Aimee will write something for the blog about her trip and her fundraising when she gets back to Uganda in a few weeks...