Wednesday, 24 October 2012

LP returns to Valley View School!

Team Uganda followed in the footsteps of the 2010 group today when they visited Valley View Primary, the scene of four days of project work two years ago.
The tasks for the day included the refurbishment of two classrooms and painting the school's kitchen.
One of the classrooms was painted on the previous trip and then had intricate educational diagrams painted on the wall. Today this room has been completely repainted and the finer pictures will be added tomorrow.
The school kitchen (Oakview) was started during the 2010 project work and completed a few weeks later. It was aptly named by members of that group and has been a talking point here in the last few days. Today, the group were excited about completing the task as the kitchen has never been properly painted in the school colours.
The porous brickwork needed a thorough rubbing down before an undercoat was added. By the end of the day the deep red bottom colour had been started. Our 'Oakview in Africa' will be properly finished tomorrow!
The pictures below show the kitchen earlier today and the old kitchen in action. The old kitchen has been used as a store for the last two years but today it was brought out of retirement whilst the new kitchen was out of action. It will amaze many readers that this little old shack was producing lunches for 300 pupils before! Footnote: it was good to see dinner plates donated by Leighton Park still being used today, two years on!

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