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Vocational Training Team to Uganda

December 15, 2010 to January 15, 2011

Uganda

One of the Vocational Training Team exchange we are doing this year is with District 9200 in East Africa. This is linked to the "Adopt-A-Village" project in Uganda, listed as project G-1 on the Global Grants Website. We will implement a series of projects at the same location, for multiple areas of focus: Water and Sanitation, Education, Health, Microcredit, and Economic Development. This will make a big impact at the village, and help them to get out of poverty. As part of this project, we will send a team of 7 professionals to the village, to help with the project implementation, and provide them with some training so that the project becomes sustainable, and will have a much bigger outcome. Four of the team members will be focusing on health, and the other three on community development.

Click here to see the biographies of the team members. The team will be traveling to Uganda from December 15, 2010 to January 15, 2011. The financing for the project is provided by 7 different clubs district 5340, with additional funds from our district, the host club and district in Uganda, and matching funds from The Rotary Foundation. The total project budget is $114,500. There will be a reciprocal team traveling from East Africa to San Diego from May 28 to June 23, 2011, and they will receive some training on water and irrigation in the Imperial Valley. Click here to see more details on the presentation that was made at the Foundation Seminar in Fallbrook on October 23. We are also organizing a follow-up trip in April 2011 for Rotarians to visit the village, attend their district Conference in Kampala, and go on a Safari.

From left to right: Chuck DuVivier, Annslie Bigbee, Philippe Lamoise, Joanna Frausto, Geoff Boone,
Shelly Tregembo, Amanda Wirtz

Pages

We will be publishing more stories, photos, and videos from our trip on this page.
Come back later to read more.

December 17	Arrival in Kampala	Philippe	Page 1
December 18	Kampala, Orphanage	Amanda	Page 2
December 19	Kampala, Entebbe Botanical Gardens	Joanna	Page 3
December 20	Kampala, Rotary Meetings	Shelly	Page 4
December 21-22	On to Nkondo	Chuck	Page 5
December 23	Nkondo	Geoff	Page 6
December 24	Community Meetings	Philippe	Page 7
December 25-26	Christmas	Amanda	Page 8
December 27-29	Pig Farm, Educators Training	Annslie	Page 9
December 28	Kasuku A Clinic	Joanna	Page 10
December 28-31	Farm Visits	Chuck	Page 11
December 30	RCC Meeting, Kamuli Hospital	Shelly, Amanda	Page 12
December 29-31	Water, Anniversary, New Year	Amanda	Page 13
January 1	Climbing Kasato Peak	Shelly	Page 14
January 3	First Aid Training, Aliens	Geoff, Amanda	Page 15
January 5	SMART Goals, Farm Visits	Shelly, Chuck	Page 16
January 4-6	Business Training	Philippe	Page 17
January 5	This is Africa	Annslie	Page 18
January 6	Handicapped RCC	Amanda	Page 19
January 7	Last Day and Graduation	Chuck, Amanda	Page 20
January 8-12	Source of the Nile and Murchison Falls	Philippe	Page 21

Videos

Maps

Our Trip Click on the map on the right to see a bigger map. Or click here to see the village location in Google maps.

District 9200 East Africa District 9200 Website