Supporters of FOCUS will be delighted to hear about the journey that Muirhouse lad Harry Munro has made to Namugongo. Harry says:
“I have lived in Uganda for about nine months volunteering for an organisation called Namugongo Fund for Special Children. We provide breakfast and lunch to over 1,000 orphans and vulnerable children each day and we provide educational support and fees, health care, and emotional services. My main task is to help out at the breakfast, lunch and after school clubs. I am involved in supporting seven centres in the area which are run by volunteers. The volunteers light a fire each night and cook ten gallons of protein enriched maize porridge over night. Then at 6am, I help to distribute the porridge and chat to the kids. Most children turn up really early so that volunteers can look over their homework from the night before then they start their walk to school. Many of these young people walk very long distances to get to school every day and they don’t return home till late in the evening.”
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Read more about the links developing between Muirhouse and Namugongo.
