Traveling once again to Uganda!

It has been since September 2019 since we sent a travel team from the U.S. to Uganda due to COVID. We have made 2 arrangements for trips since then, purchased the airline tickets and had to cancel at the last minute. This August, we hope to "turn the tide!" 

August 21st through September 10th we will travel to Muko to work alongside our partners in ACT. There will be a team of 6 of us going: Dave Viele, Karen Viele, Dick Dolinski, Diana Stubig, Barbara Disko and Sue Waechter. We will have a very busy agenda, per usual, including things like: 

1. meeting the new Bishop 
of Kigezi, Rev. Gaddie Akanjuna, with whom we partner to manage Muko High School, pictured here with Muko High School Head Teacher, Rev Philip Ntwirenabo. 

2. meetings with our health promotion program staff who are working to transform our work into dramas about public health issues and begin to address ways to identify and respond to mental health issues in Muko,

3. see all the incredible physical improvements at Muko High School - the big Rotary grant that allowed us to install solar power at the school and another generous donor grant to install security fencing for the safety of the students and the school,

4. hold a MUSIC camp with the stringed orchestra participants culminating in a concert, 

5. check in with our agriculture program (HANDS) staff and see the huge amount of work/training they have accomplished in perma-gardening this past year with a generous grant from the Allen Foundation,

6. meet with our hand-crafters to discuss ways to move forward with our Uniquely Uganda Handcraft program,

7. meet with the ACT HONOR scholarship recipients to encourage their hard work,

8. meet with the administration and board of Muko High School to plan the future of the school. 

9. identify a way to have the Ugandan staff manage more of the communications for ACT - particularly the social media aspect. 

9. meet with the new ACT Board of Directors to do planning for ACT into the future. 

10. host a typical US baby shower for our staff members who have had babies since 2019 (our last trip there). We are sharing more with each other about our cultures!

11. And, lastly, and most importantly, spend time being with our friends in Uganda.

Many suitcases going and coming! we will have 12, 50-lb suitcases plus 6 carry on roller suitcases. Violins, violas, and 2 cellos along for the ride!




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