Our Team is home!

After our final day in the Nakayot Peace Village on Thursday, we returned to our guest house in Matany and had a fun dinner together recalling what we had experienced during the week.  It was fun sitting around the table one last time.  We had bonded closely with the Ugandan team.  Several made plans to stay connected and some were already planning a return trip.  We then began repacking our suitcases.  We would not find out until around 8:30 AM on Friday what time our MAF plane would arrive to take us back to Entebbe, so we had to be ready to go as soon as breakfast was over.

Our plane picked us up at 10:00 AM Friday and after a 90 minute flight we arrived at the Kajjansi MAF airfield.  Our driver was waiting for us at the airfield and took us into downtown Kampala for lunch and gift shopping.  Then it was off to the Entebbe airport.  We waited there for 6 hours for our flight to Amsterdam which left at 11:30 PM. Eight hours later we were in Amsterdam.  We had a 3 hour layover there and then off on the 10 hour flight direct to Portland.

It was a very rewarding time in Uganda. Team worked hard and accomplished a lot.  But even better were the relationships we made with the people in the Peace Village and the encouragement we brought to the CLIDE staff.  They know that there are people back in Portland that love them and are willing to come and work alongside them.  We will be back!

All the steel structure that we painted blue, the wire mesh we

installed in the ceiling framework, and the door built for the storeroom

The steel doors we painted and the steel plates we cut and installed

above and below the windows.  Also the vapor barrier and wire mess installed

on floor ready to pour concrete.

The finished product. Next will be pouring the floor and putting

up the cement block walls

The amazing young men we worked alongside all week

After a 10 mile drive over a very rough and often muddy road

you come to the turn off to the Nakayot Peace Village

The beautiful sight we were treated to on our final drive out

of Nakayot Peace Village on Thursday evening

Our departure at the Matany airstrip drew a large crowd

We are home