Saturday 21^st March

Today was the official opening of the café. The visiting group arrived at around midday and seemed to thoroughly enjoy their visit. It was a very mixed group with Members of the Uganda Tourist Association, a journalist from the Daily Monitor, some tour guides, tourism students and even a male model!

Posing by the entrance sign

We had been anxious in case the water wasn’t working as it had been off yesterday. There still hasn’t been any rain so the water situation is getting rather desperate.

On the front steps of the Cafe

The staff working in the café did extremely well today coping with the largest number of visitors they have had to manage on one occasion. The food was great and everyone seemed very happy with what was on offer!

The group enjoyed time to look around

Afterwards we took the group to Ekiwumulo to let them see what the profits from the café will be going to. Some of them seemed genially touched by what they saw and some of them were asking about coming back for a day to do some work gardening or spend time with the children at the site.

The visit to Ekiwumulo was a great success

The children really enjoyed all the visitors

All in all it was a very successful day. We now have 2 days between Kampala and Entebbe to sort out some things such as getting some additional paper craft items and meeting up with some of the University students who are being sponsored. We are flying back overnight on Monday night. It has been a well worthwhile trip and we have felt very well adjusted to being here particularly in the last couple of weeks.