The training for all the HELP International volunteers was this weekend at Brigham Young University. We received our country handbooks which contain information about the Ugandan program, packing lists and various other things, about one hundred pages worth. I better start reading!
I attended workshops about education and literacy, orphans and at risk populations and learned the basics of making an adobe stove.
Education is extremely important, especially for girls. Check out the video below to see why. I personally believe education is the way to change the world. Education equals knowledge and knowledge equals power. Imagine if everyone in the world knew that washing your hands could keep you from getting sick or that brushing your teeth could prevent gum disease? These are just simple things that many of us take for granted, what if we could teach the world something more, something bigger?
I also learned a lot about how to respect and be aware of other cultures and some specific things about Ugandan culture. Apparently in Uganda it is illegal to take a picture on a bridge or to take a picture of the president. So these are two things that I will not be coming home with. I am very excited to be able to have the opportunity to immerse myself into another culture.
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture will never produce good fruit.
-Seneca
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