'Let's Give Them a Bigger Hand Clap'

So this past weekend I had the unique opportunity to go to a grand opening celebration of a ministry that eMi EA had done a project with a few years ago. As an intern it was pretty cool to be able to go and see a finished product. The project I am currently working on will take a few years to complete and hopefully I will get to see it but maybe not. So anyway it was just a great experience to see a finished project.

The project is Amigos International Kira Farm Training Center located about an hour outside of Kampala. They take orphans in from all over Uganda and train them in practical applications such as agriculture, poultry raising, fishing farming, etc. Tribes are a big part of Uganda and there is a lot of tribal tensions, so Amigos' goal is to bring together orphans who are from different tribes in order to slowly create a unified Uganda and to breach a lot of those tribal differences. So that is small background on the ministry.

So we were invited and we went and were treated as celebrities at the celebration. We saw dancing, singing, toured the compound, ate, and took pictures with those who wanted our picture. It was a lot of fun, and we even got to sort of meet Joss Stone (which I will do a later post on). So here are some pics from it:

Women singing a song of greeting in traditional Ugandan dress.

The event tents. The entire village of Kira was there as well as some organizations and businesses such as World Vision, British Airways, etc.

This is one of the students of the training center and wanted to take a picture with us interns, I mean celebrities.

One of the fish ponds as the sunlight fades.....A reminder of how beautiful Africa can be.

The title is a quote by the quite humorous MC of the event.