Day Two

7-27-13

Blessed be the name of the Lord!

Yesterday was a fairly light day. We flew from Dubai to Entebbe with no problems with visas. That was 5-6 hours. Same story with Entebbe airport. We drove through Entebbe and Kampala and had lunch at a deli/meat market.

Our first official thing to do was take a short tour of the ARM headquarters. ARM has a great location right up to a Lake Victoria and lots of room for the kids to play. They are between a primary and secondary (middle and high) school with a chapel on the ground floor, which was in session. Everything was tidy and organized. Our tour guide was Anita. She was a sponsored child herself and has been very helpful.

Side-note: School runs very long here. The kids get up early to run/walk a mile or more to get there and the secondary schools last until about 5PM. They also have a totally different schedule than our schools. They have farming year round, if there's water, and so they have year round school. Feb. to May, July to Sept., and Oct. to just before Christmas. June, some of Sept. and January are holidays.

After the tour of ARM, we stopped at Loving Hearts Babies Home for a short time to hold babies. It was very clean, with about 7 rotating employees to care for the little ones. Ashley Davis has been volunteering here when she's not in Luzira. I held a 3 month old named Corrine, who was very aware and cooing. Ashley said that they've never had to turn out a child for getting too old. Most are adopted by Mazungu (white folks). Praise the Lord for providing them homes!

After the babies, we went to Adonai House, which is beautiful and secure, for dinner and sleep. We all needed that!
Today... Kachungwa!

Love in Christ, Danelle Chase