This morning's visit to Jinja market opened a few eyes to market shopping in Africa (see images below)! Whilst searching for the produce to prepare lunch for forty people we had some interesting experiences negotiating prices for flour, vegetables, rice, cooking oil, potatoes and local beef! Nothing was left to the imagination!
With lunch onboard, we set off for Sonrise orphanage with four aims for the day: to prepare lunch, to clean the orphanage, to play with the children and, after lunch, to take 24 of them swimming in a local pool! We are happy to report that all four were completed without any mishaps!
We divided the group into three for cooking, playing and cleaning and all set about their tasks without fuss. Clearly, the most fun was playing with the babies and younger children and, as the groups rotated in their tasks over a two hour period, all of our students enjoyed total interaction with the youngsters. To say that they had fun was an understatement!
Lunch included chapatis which were made from scratch with locals. They then went down well with beef, rice and vegetable stew.
Our afternoon at a local pool was a festival of fun whilst keeping a very close eye on the non-swimmers. To put it all into context, these children only swim once a year if they are lucky! A great day for all!
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