Women's Health & Education

 

--> We had a great day this week at the school where we sponsor several children to attend school (more on this at a later blog post).  Saint Ann Grace is a rural school (outhouse facilities & minimal electricity) about an hour north of Kampala. (type 0° 32’ 48.20” N  32° 47’ 35.05” into Google Earth for a bird's eye view.)  Relief Society groups in the Rexburg area, together with help from our friend Damalie here (see previous post) put together about 500 sanitary napkin kits for girls who otherwise would have to miss school during their periods.   

Mary taking a few questions from the girls.

Not the most comfortable topic for Sam & totally bewildering for Joe, but the day was filled with girly instruction on how to make the kits in the hopes of selling them to other girls or schools.   While the girls did their thing, Sam, Joe and Dave spent time with the 300 or so boys on the other side of campus answering questions ranging from “Did aliens make the pyramids, the Great Wall of China, and the Eiffel Tower?” to “What are the Illuminati and do they really exist?” to “Why did you make the movie that hates Muhammad?” to “What’s the deal with American football? (Sam answered that one) to “Does the Bermuda Triangle really eat boats?”  This are real questions, among a few others even more weird.  I asked each kid where they got these wacky ideas (not exactly using those words) and they said they read it on the Internet.  You’re reading this on the Internet, so maybe this all happened, maybe it didn’t.

Enough to Spare donated a sewing machine, a few dozen textbooks we brought over with us, and a laptop for the school administrators.  We hope it will all go to good use. Thanks to all back home who helped out on this project, particularly my lovely wife and fellow world adventurer, Kathleen, and also Tricia and Scott Galer.

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Joe is always the hit of the party.  Not sure if he knew these were girls.