African Village

One of the new aspects of life now that our children attend an American school is that their holiday dates are different from the British academic calendar. We are currently on Spring Break. Next week school will resume for the new semester, without any holiday over Easter apart from Easter weekend itself.

We started the holiday with a few days away at a resort called "African Village". This is an amazing initiative, set up as a centre for Ugandan young people to receive education and vocational training. It has a primary school on site, a hotel and catering school, pottery workshop, fashion and sewing training, brick-making and technical workshops. Guests can come and stay at the accommodation, with meals prepared and served by the students who are in training at the hotel management school.

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We went with another MAF Uganda family with children a similar age to ours... and lots of fun was had by all,.. except for a nasty bout of 'flu and sickness which hit half of us towards the end of the holiday!

Our banda accommodation:

The beautiful pools, where we all spent many happy hours either swimming or enjoying the shade under the trees on the grassy verge:

The children also got the opportunity to try their hand at pottery- and made some beautiful creations on Day 1, which they then returned to paint on Day 2. They worked alongside the students at the pottery, with the help of one of the teachers: