Working with Young People in Uganda
Tillydrone Vision
2010 Visit
Looking Forward
Group to Visit Uganda in February 2010
Plans are now at an advanced stage for a Group of people who are all involved with the Tillydrone Vision Project to visit with our friends in Uganda. We leave from Aberdeen Airport and fly to Schipol Amsterdam with a couple of hours lay over there before flying on to Entebbe Uganda. We fly out of Aberdeen at 6am. and flights going to plan, we should arrive in Entebbe about 8:40pm local time.
We have arranged collection for the Airport at Entebbe and will spend the night
at one of the local Hotels before being collected the next morning and once again
experiencing the drive to Kamuli. It is a good road up until Jinja but from there
on it gets a bit more scary, less tarmac and more of one continuous great big pothole
that the Driver’s swing from side to side of the road to to do their best to hit..
So far it looks like there will be twelve of us making the trip and it really is
a good mixture in the Group. We have representatives from Grampian Fire and Rescue,
a Head Teacher and a deputy Head from our Local primary School. We will be accompanied
by three Young Folks from Tillydrone who are being funded by Fairer Scotland Fund
on the trip. The Visit is part of a Personal Development Programme we are running.
Kenny, who is our Session Clerk at Saint George’s Tillydrone Church, is accompanying
us, as is des the Church Treasurer, so we should be all right. Making up the group
will be Ross and Kenneth for whom this will be a return visit to meet up again with
old friends. We plan to hire a couple of Matatu Buses with the drivers for the duration
of the stay in Uganda. Most us hold a Driving Licence but I would never recommend
driving in Uganda Matatu’s 
are the local Bus or Taxi used by most of the local people
as public transport. They are really quite comfortable but as you can see, sometimes
they get to be a bit crowded. Hiring Matatu and driver gives us more freedom to
be able to get around and meet up with old and new friends. Whilst in Uganda we will
be publishing a Daily Blog on-
A small word of caution is please do not be dismayed if we lose a few days updating the Blog. We will be dependent on the use of the Internet cafe to update and the electricity going off for days at a time does not help. No Electricity, No Internet, so please do try and be be patient with us. More details of the Blog will available on the site before we leave for Uganda.
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