Dennis, to a couple of the schools that we have sponsored children at.
The first
school we went to was St. Andrew's. The little girl that I sponsor,
Rashida, goes there. It was SO fun to see her again. She has grown!
I
thought she was younger than she really is, I now think she is more
around the same age as Gloria. So therefore we are inviting her to
come to camp
:) After we encouraged the nine students there to do well on their
exams we made our way to the next school. Mpumudde Estate. As we
drove there it felt like we were out in the country. It was quite a
distance out there. There I got to see one of my best friend's
sponsored child :)
Next we went to Mpumudde Methodist, which was started by Methodist and
is now a government school. Since the government wants all kids in
school, the Primary 2 and 3 class sizes are RIDICULOUS! The Head
Master, who used to be one of Dennis' teachers, told us that there are
200 kids in a class with one teacher. WOW! I can not even imagine!
As we sat in the office two of our sponsored children came in to see
us. They are sisters, Gloria and Diana. We found out that they
"live" with their dad who is gone a lot during the week due to his
business. Their older sister sometimes brings food by for them to
have supper but not every night. Their mother passed away but we are
not sure how long ago. Upon looking at them in their tattered school
uniforms both Mary Ann and my heart just broke. They are not
performing well in school and it's not wonder with their living
conditions. I think we might take them shopping this Saturday. They
need some TLC!
After there we ventured back to the office where everyone got out of
the car that Pastor Godfrey is driving us in and we headed on to the
Guest House to pick up Simon and Gloria. I took my two little ones to
the clinic to have a check up on their health. We got there around
3:15 and Dr. Emma was not there so I found his phone number and called
him to see how much longer he'd be, he said 20 mins. So we waited.
When he came he had both of their blood taken and he checked out
Simon's chest since he had pneumonia previously. After a little more
waiting we found out that both of their hemoglobin counts had improved
and D. Emma said they were well enough to go back to school. So off
we went to Simon's school on our way home to pick up more books for
him so that he can catch up on his school work.
This morning we decided to take Gloria back to school but forgot to
also tell her that meant we were taking her back home as well. She
was all dressed in her uniform and ready to walk to school this
morning around 6:45am when I saw her. And I told her no you are not
walking to school. So she sat and waited for all of us to get ready.
And then I told her she needed to pack her clothes so we could take
her home as well and she was like oh I thought I was coming back.
(AWW! :( ) So we loaded into Pastor Godfrey's car this morning and
went to Gloria's house where I met her Aunt Milly. And then on to
school where we told the Head Master that her long school days need to
be shortened because we don't want her cd4 count dropping again! It
was so sad to take her back, I totally started crying. I miss her
already! I'm going to miss her saying my name 5 million times during
the day. I'll have to make many visits over there...
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