Cultural Sharing

 As part of the ACT US Strategic Plan, we have made a commitment to do cultural sharing with our Ugandan partners so that we can learn more about each other's lives and cultures. This last trip the Travel Team decide to hold a typical American baby shower since 7 of our staff had babies since before COVID and our last visit!

We included the typical components: a cake (which Karen and Sue baked in a pizza oven behind our hotel at 7,000 elevation. It required math which Dick helped us with!), snack food, decorations, gifts of each of the children and of course those dumb shower games! 

Our ACT US Board all donated toward the baby gifts and Suzanne Greenberg purchased around 3 items of clothing for each child. One of the games played were Guess How Many M&Ms are in the baby bottle. Diana Stubig ran the games and did a presentation of prizes to the winners and Dick Dolinski even gave a short presentation about early childhood development. We then served the cake and were curious to see if they would like our style of cake which is quite different from their cake. Onesmas and Guma turned out to be the biggest fans!

Towards the end of the shower, the staff began to share the courtship process and marriage process in Uganda. The stories of how they met and dated and got family blessings were priceless. What wonderful we have leading our ACT Programs!






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  1. AnonymousNovember 5, 2022 at 4:15 AM

    This was so wonderful.

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  2. LynnNovember 28, 2022 at 1:03 PM

    Such a great way to promote cultural exchange and learnings--and fun! What a great-looking cake!

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