Title: Sabrina and Geoff Slide in Kamwenge (
Uganda)
Status: Active
URL:
http://geoffandsabrinaslide.blogspot.com/
All Posts Cached via RSS
Sabrina and Geoff Slide’s Homecoming Update 2011 - 09/Jan/2011 16:40 - 5078 days ago
Our placement in Uganda has ended now and so we have returned to chilly Essex from warm and sunny Kamwenge. We wanted to write t...
Going Home - 25/Nov/2010 05:52 - 5123 days ago
After being in Kamwenge for almost 20 months, we are preparing to finish our placement here. We are leaving slightly early as we...
Car Fun - 17/Nov/2010 17:50 - 5131 days ago
At the end of October, we went on a trip to Bushenyi with our colleague Edith, to visit her mum. We had cancelled several times ...
Katakwi post conflict area - 24/Oct/2010 09:56 - 5155 days ago
We have recently returned from a week in Katakwi, which is a district in the north-east of Uganda. We had been asked to train te...
Water - 25/Sep/2010 12:25 - 5184 days ago
Last week delegates were meeting in New York to discuss the progress on the Millennium Development Goals that were agreed in 200...
Eggxciting Spring Time - 12/Sep/2010 13:05 - 5197 days ago
At the end of the school holidays, we went to visit the Hot Springs at Semliki National Park. These are ringed by forest, veiled...
Bread and Pineapple - 29/Aug/2010 10:59 - 5211 days ago
One of the projects set up by Stuart, the Canadian volunteer who recently left, was bread making. It is designed to provide extr...
5 little ducks went swimming one day . . . - 22/Aug/2010 09:38 - 5218 days ago
We have had a very busy time since our last blog entry (don’t we always say that).Geoff’s maths workshop went really well an...
workshops, water and whole numbers - 10/Jul/2010 12:00 - 5261 days ago
'Draw 4 things on your slate''Stick' energiser'Counting' energiserWorking on numeracy with David and some older pupilsLast week ...
Volunteer support - 26/Jun/2010 11:37 - 5275 days ago
Dorota's farewell party with volunteers and friends in KamwengeFor those of you who may have wondered about the repeated jumble ...
Long overdue update - 20/Jun/2010 12:06 - 5281 days ago
Lake Mburo boat tripImpala in Lake Mburohttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifSorry about the double pictures but decided we have ...
Untitled - 04/May/2010 12:53 - 5328 days ago
...
One year old in Kamwenge! - 04/May/2010 12:36 - 5328 days ago
Having been in Kamwenge for 1 year now we thought we would put some local views on the blog. Enjoy!...
Kamwenge Schools - 01/May/2010 09:30 - 5331 days ago
Participants at the 'Guidance not Violence' workshop showing power differences betweeen different people - although Geoff looks ...
A child's life in Kamwenge - 18/Apr/2010 10:49 - 5344 days ago
Last week when Geoff was reading The Argos on line (web site of the local paper in Brighton that he reads to keep up with his fo...
Parents' Day - 30/Mar/2010 17:02 - 5363 days ago
Kamwenge Primary School, where Geoff helps in the special needs unit, had an open day for parents. The teachers all dressed up i...
Untitled - 30/Mar/2010 16:56 - 5363 days ago
Meet Francis.Francis is the headteacher of Nkangoro, one of the schools we work with. He passes our house every school day on hi...
Sports Day - 06/Mar/2010 10:46 - 5387 days ago
Geoff turned up at the special needs unit on Friday to help with the pupils only to discover that it was sports day and trials f...
Untitled - 06/Mar/2010 10:38 - 5387 days ago
...
Peter's story - 06/Mar/2010 10:38 - 5387 days ago
Last week was spent in Kampala writing training manuals for the NGO, Link Community Devlopment, that we are working with. Geoff ...
Untitled - 20/Feb/2010 11:45 - 5401 days ago
We were able to provide each school with some resources to get them started on their first aid kit (1st picture above) and their...
Sign of the times - 20/Feb/2010 11:36 - 5401 days ago
Teachers practising the sign for chalk - it starts with pointing at white teeth (Ugandan sign language in case any of our reader...
At last - a school health workshop - 20/Feb/2010 11:10 - 5401 days ago
Richard demonstrating how to make a tippy tapGeoff wishes that he got this much concentration when he used to do assemblies!A pr...
A glass half full moment! - 07/Feb/2010 12:26 - 5414 days ago
Isaac has just gone into the final year of primary School, P7, and he helped me with the equipment.We managed to get a couple of...
Is the glass half full or half empty? - 07/Feb/2010 10:07 - 5414 days ago
Kamwenge has been visited by 2 Australians for the last couple of weeks– Tim and Sophie from Sydney. They are trustees of a lo...
Untitled - 31/Jan/2010 12:16 - 5421 days ago
This is the last week of the long school holidays– since the beginning of December – and the new school year starts on Monda...
Flight to the hills - 23/Jan/2010 11:19 - 5429 days ago
After a wonderful Christmas and New Year break in snowy Bicknacre (see our back garden above) catching up with friends and famil...
Untitled - 09/Dec/2009 18:45 - 5474 days ago
Presenting the Perkins machine, a braille typewriter, to Julius, Chief Inspector of Schools and Kellon, the deputy headteacher o...
Untitled - 27/Nov/2009 12:40 - 5486 days ago
We woke up one day and discovered swarms of flying insects and all our colleagues running around the district office grounds cha...
School Speech Day - 27/Nov/2009 11:32 - 5486 days ago
P1 and P2 classes - the youngest children, singing about hand washing.The older children telling stories through local dance.Hav...
Nicola's visit in pictures - 23/Nov/2009 16:34 - 5490 days ago
Nicola meeting some of the pupils at one of our schools - they are very good at handwashing and the head is the best maker of ti...
Nicola vists Mum and Dad - 23/Nov/2009 16:12 - 5490 days ago
We had a brilliant time with Nicola and managed to visit lots of places as well spend some time showing her some of the schools ...
Our laptop has died! - 26/Oct/2009 13:42 - 5518 days ago
Just a quick post to say that our laptop caught some horrible virus and is no longer usable. There is no internet cafe in Kamwen...
Working in schools - 11/Oct/2009 17:39 - 5533 days ago
This term, Geoff is doing what is called School Performance Review. I visit a school with a Ugandan colleague and we spend the w...
HIV/AIDS prevention in schools - 04/Oct/2009 16:42 - 5540 days ago
This term, Sabrina’s School Health programme is all about HIV/AIDS prevention. Over one million adults are living with HIV/AID...
Sponsorship and Birthdays - 27/Sep/2009 11:27 - 5547 days ago
Geoff's birthdayWith Josephine's family at her homeWe have decided to turn over a new leaf and update our blog more often. We us...
We saw some animals - 29/Aug/2009 12:35 - 5576 days ago
Whilst visiting Bollus near Masindi, we managed to fit in a trip to Murchison Falls National Park and went on a boat trip up the...
Visiting Friends - 29/Aug/2009 11:01 - 5576 days ago
Last week we were able to visit Bollus Wembabazi, the headteacher who hosted me on my first visit to Uganda back in 2002 and wh...
Graduations and presidents - 17/Aug/2009 06:46 - 5588 days ago
Sorry about the lack of updates to the blog– just to assure you that we are both fit and well. We have just found it difficult...
Lazy Morning - 04/Jul/2009 07:14 - 5632 days ago
Woke up late after a Nile Special Beer to drown our sorrows after the tennis last night so having a lazy morning on computer and...
Prime steaks, bishops’ washing, travelling chickens, HIV/Aids workshops and food parcels? - 04/Jul/2009 07:14 - 5632 days ago
No update to the blog for a few weeks as we have been at VSO training for new volunteers in Kampala and access to internet has b...
Is a fox a wild animal? - 14/Jun/2009 07:09 - 5652 days ago
Last weekend we visited some of our fellow VSOers who are working in Fort Portal, our nearestlarge town, which is about 1½ hour...
Going to schools - 08/Jun/2009 15:51 - 5658 days ago
We drive along the murram roads of Kamwenge trying to avoid pedestrians and cyclists. Cyclists carry everything and anything . ....
Celebrating Sabrina’s birthday - 31/May/2009 10:53 - 5666 days ago
Into the life of every VSO volunteer must occasionally drop a little luxury– and we had ours last weekend at the Ndali Lodge. ...
Untitled - 16/May/2009 19:00 - 5681 days ago
Sabrina wanted to let you know that she does the washing too!Next week Justine is doing the washing and cleaning for us. She wor...
Untitled - 16/May/2009 18:18 - 5681 days ago
After opening a Ugandan bank account in Fort Portal the other day, we stopped off on the way home for a soda at a crater lake. I...
Washing in Kamwenge - 10/May/2009 16:51 - 5687 days ago
.Yes!! done it at last!!The Englishman abroad!!Just note that the panama is fairtrade...
Can I publish photos on this blog? - 10/May/2009 16:27 - 5687 days ago
Hoping this text will accompany some photos of us doing the washing - if not the internet connection is too slow to do photos pr...
!st week at Kamwenge - 09/May/2009 18:10 - 5688 days ago
We have now been for one week in Kamwenge and have started to settle in. Most of this week seems to have been about meeting all ...
1st day at work - 04/May/2009 17:11 - 5693 days ago
We went into the district offices today to meet with our new colleagues. We were introduced to all the education and health offi...
1st Day of induction training - 29/Apr/2009 13:58 - 5698 days ago
We arrived in Kampala this morning following a very smooth flight and taxi ride from Heathrow. We are staying at a very nice gue...
last day at home - 28/Apr/2009 09:07 - 5699 days ago
All the farewell parties are finished, the bags are packed, the garden is low-maintenance and we've started taking the anti-mala...
RSS Status 1 - last refresh 2024-12-04 08:12:58
RSS URL http://geoffandsabrinaslide.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
