Here is a summary of the upcoming trip to Africa, June 24-July 7, 2009.
We will have two nurse practitioners (who are almost like doctors) and one nurse on this trip so will be able to work with the nurse and the children. How many of the children have the head fungus? I am trying to get enough medication to cure that.
In planning the trip, here is our itinerary for the entire time.
* Wednesday, June 24, leave Newark, NJ @ 6 pm
* Thursday, June 25, arrive Entebbe @ 9:45 pm
* We will be staying at Ivy House that night. Ronnie from Churchill Tours will be picking us up.
* We will leave Kampala no later than 8 am on Friday, June 26, as we are visiting Brigitte's school and seeing the women's cooperative. You had said you would like to join us. Could you meet us in Masaka and we will take you with us? (We are staying at the Hotel Zebra.) Three of the people from our group ... Jeroen, Tony (my son) and Kristen ... will come down to your school after we are dropped off at Tekerah because Jeroen, who is the children's dance teacher, wants to see the facility and what he will be working with. We can take you back when we go to pick them up.
* Saturday, June 27, I will take the group to the Equator and the Drum Factory and take those that came to your school on Friday to Tekerah on Saturday. They will be tired and will want to get some sleep.
* Sunday, June 28, we will come to your church. Do you want us to meet you around 9:30 in front of the Petrol station, as in the past? Then, you can return with us, have lunch and get to meet everyone. They will probably have questions that I have not been able to answer.
* Monday, June 29 through Friday, July 3 we will be at the school. Following are activities that we would need to do in the week:
1. Jeroen and Kristen want to produce a dance special with all the children. They would like to have one hour per class during the week to do this with the opportunity for a rehearsal on Friday morning (July 3). Can this be arranged?
2. Tony is writing music for this dance special and wants to teach the children how to play it. Tuesday he would like to be able to have a rotating schedule, as he did during the summer of 2007, and then have Wednesday and Thursday, all day, with the 30 children that will be playing guitar and the drums for the performance on Friday.
3. Friday we would like you to allow us to perform this work "in the square" (the same way the children march around before "moving up") and, if you wish, you could invite the local politicians you had at Christmas time and the parents. The dance Jeroen is planning combines the African and American cultures and demonstrates our working together. I am assuming you will allow us to serve the children again for a party on Friday afternoon?
4. We are currently undertaking a shoe drive in one of the schools so we can bring one pair of shoes for each child. We already have enough socks to give each child a new pair of socks. We will need to determine the best way to distribute these shoes and socks. We are doing whole sizes (no half sizes) so some of them may be a little big but they will grow into them.
5. We have 500 T-shirts from Home Away From Home Academy for the new children and for some of those whose shirts are worn out. We will need to distribute those.
6. Several of our group are teachers and want to sit through some classes.
7. We will also need to update the orphan children's photos for our files. Would you please send me a complete list of the orphan's names to I can make sure we have a form ready for them? Make sure you put their ages and what grade they are in.
8. We will have the very large safari bus this time and don't know if it will be possible to visit people's homes. 14 people is a lot and that bus is VERY big! I do think, even if we don't visit homes, that I want to have the people walk through the village, as we did before, so they can experience ... albeit briefly ... the walking that the children do.
Sylvia Allen
732-946-2711/cell 732-241-1144
89 Middletown Road
Holmdel, NJ 07733
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