We're going to be on the telly....!

In June the Education Centre hosted some lovely folks from SKY NEWS who popped over to Uganda and filmed our project! How exciting...! The fabulous Victoria (producer), Natasha (reporter) and Matt (cameraman) came along and spent a week with us, filming the school children at the Centre, interviewing everyone from school teachers to school kids to parents and grandparents...and they even interviewed some of the Ed Centre staff!

The "package" (as it is called, dontchyaknow) will be screened very soon on a satellite tv near you - the date will be posted as soon as we know - but it will hopefully also be available on YouTube forever thereafter.

And not only that but Matt-the-cameraman is going to use the acres of footage that he shot to make us a fundraising and information DVD to be shown to all and sundry...the date for completion of this longer DVD will be confirmed soon (no comedy extras unfortunately - not even the bit where one member of staff forgot that he had a radio mic on and went to the toilet, much to the horror of the cameraman who still had his headphones in). If you would like a copy to help fundraise for us, please let us know at the usual address (speducationcentre@gmail.com).

For a taster, here's the news crew in action...firstly, scaring the wits out of the District Education Officer who thought we were from a newspaper til we turned up with a HUGE spotlight and a massive camera!

Here they are filming at Lukolo Primary School who very nicely allowed us to follow their pupils around for a couple of days - both at the AEC and at the school. Here's the wonderfully helpful and ever-accommodating Mr Moses being interviewed outside the classroom.

Here we see an Outreach Learning session being filmed inside a classroom at Lukolo Primary.

We can't thank Victoria, Natasha and Matt enough for their interest in our project and we hope that they had a marvellous time whilst with us in Uganda....maybe they'll come back and do a follow up one day?!

Keep your eyes peeled for the date we will appear on Sky News....or contact us if you are desperate to know!