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2016 SMB visit – day 4
Tuesday After a scrumptious breakfast at the Enro hotel, we loaded into the buses and made our way to Afinnet to help out with painting and cleaning. We spent a few hours there and got very messy, spilling more paint […]
Read more »2016 SMB visit – day 3
More news -’this time by text from Rachel: Internet seems to be down.great day painting yesterday and lots of fun and games at the orphanage. Hottest day so far, first bedroom inspection – evidence of hand washed socks etc !!!
Read more »2016 SMB visit – day 2
15th February Today we woke up to a delicious breakfast prepared for us at wonderful Enro hotel. Soon after we got back on the mini busses and made our way to Makonzi Primary School, SMBs partner school. When we arrived […]
Read more »2016 SMB visit – day 1
The following has been received from the 2016 team in Mityana. Day 1 We woke up in banana village, and saw some monkeys and puppies. We had breakfast; juice, cereal, toast, sausage, egg and home grown bananas. After that we […]
Read more »Sharon jumps for Bulera – pictures
Sharon Perks made her jump for Bulera in January. She said, “Well we were delayed by 24 hours due to rain but instead I did the skydive actually on my birthday. It was amazing!“ Enclosed some pictures to give a sense […]
Read more »Work on Kindergarten begins!
Work on the kindergarten in Mityana has finally got underway! The following note was received from Frederick in Mityana who will be managing the project. Hey Dodie Yesterday I completed site preparations that I had started on towards the end […]
Read more »Skydive to raise money for Bulera
Woolton Hill resident and teacher Sharon Perks will be undertaking a sky dive on 9 January 2016 to help raise money for her link school Bulera. To help raise funds she has set up a donations page on Virgin Money […]
Read more »Visit from Mityana Primary School teachers
Following a visit in February 2015 of a number of Whitchurch Deanery teachers to Mityana (with British Council funding), a reciprocal trip took place in May with primary school teachers returning to visit Whitchurch. The February trip involved a teacher from […]
Read more »Seb completes the London Marathon for MPT
Seb Owen has completed the London Marathon – in the process raising over £4,500 for MPT. What a performance! Seb writes as follows: Dear All, I just wanted to say a final huge thank you for your support during my […]
Read more »Update from our marathon runner
Seb will be running the London Marathon for Mityana Projects Trust in 31 days. Here is an update from him: “With just six weeks to go, training is starting to peak at around 40 miles per week now. The winter […]
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