Tomorrow (Thursday) I am going out to an island village on Lake Victoria called Buvuma. I will be going with five other people from my team. We will be visiting different communities and teaching some workshops on various things, among which are HIV/AIDS and sexual health. We will stay on the island for five days.
I am very excited to start making a difference and help to educate some people because I think that it all starts with education. Also it will be nice to get away from the house and experience something new. It sounds like the accommodations will be pretty good, we are going to live in a house with a solar panel. The rest of the village does not have electricity but we will. Today we are going shopping for some food to take with us and pack our things. I will just take my backpack.
It sounds like the people are very eager to have us come and from what I understand there has only been one other Mzungu who has been to the village, so that will be interesting. I think just our presence there will make a difference.
The island sounds very beautiful, white sand beaches and all. The people are very poor though. I've got a fully charged camera all ready to take with me..
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