Tuesday 22nd February
Today has been a day of contrasts. This morning involved some further difficult meetings which we were nevertheless pleased to complete.
This afternoon we visited Ebenezer Secondary School were many of the Namacosi Orphanage children go for secondary school. Academically the Headmaster Richard has achieved some great results with 2 first grades in S4 (equivalent to GCSE level) out of a total of 14 students. The largest secondary school in Mityana only achieved 3 first grades out of several hundred students which gives some measure of the success that the children at Ebenezer have achieved. Almost more importantly the levels of discipline are very high which has been a great help to a number of the children who have come from the very unstructured care they have received at Namacosi .
The children from Namacosi now at Ebenezer School.A great bunch of young people!
While we enjoying tea at Kolping House after the school visit the newly elected MP turned up and we were given a 5 minute resume of his policies to help local farmers rather than further build the paperwork bureaucracy that exists! He is obviously very popular with the local electorate and is not an NRM party member so hopefully will help to bring balance in the new Parliament.
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