Meeting with Friends of Londiani

Yesterday, Friday 19 August 2016, I travelled about 25km to Adraa where the Franciscan Brothers run an agricultural college (www.adraaunganda.com).  The primary reason for my visit was to meet with a Kenyan charity the Guernsey Overseas Aid & Development Commission are supporting in Londiani in Kenya in a water and sanitation project.

Martin and Maria from Friends of Londiani (www.friendsoflondaini.com) have a long friendship with Brother Tony, Adraa Agricultural College's director, from his many years in Kenya.  They had been invited to deliver a week long course to representatives from four villages about how to build sustainable and healthy communities.  This course is part of a pilot project they are looking to run in the Diocese of Nebbi.

I joined the course for the final day when the participants worked in village groups to bring together all they had learnt and present how they planned to ensure their villages become healthy and sustainable communities and exemplars for other villages.  The energy and enthusiasm for the course was clear and the presentations were excellent and showed how well that had applied all they had been taught to their own villages.

 

 

 

The course ended with the presentation of certificates and it was clear that the week had been a great success and the start of an important new project to improve the quality of life of many in this remote and poor part of Uganda.  The desire to change was clear for all to see and the engagement of these communities will undoubtedly bring success.