Now there's only 7 days to go!

It has been HECTIC! But I can almost taste Ugandan pineapple! And it's a taste you'll remember. We have a most excellent team -
The Pottages - Tim, Sonia, Joshua (5) and Sienna (3)
Danielle Kundert
Grace Pickett and
Ellie Gallienne.
Oh - and the six of us in the Clarkie Clan.

These three ladies above are wonderful student nurses from Oxford Brookes University who'll be carrying out (a few hundred at least) medical checks with children in the Kampala slums. More of that later.

Amidst the packing boxes of our house move (!) we've cleared a corner for our Uganda packing.

There are more than 18 pamper packs prepared for Watoto Mamas. Nicole and Sonia have blagged and bought the following for each of these bags:
1. Bed sheets
2. Pants
3. Lush and Body Shop stuff
4. Nail polish, remover and nail file
5. Sanitary towels
6. Impulse body sprays
7. Devotionals
8. Vaseline (they use a lot of it for dry skin)


All packaged in a hand-painted bag with a particular scripture for each one. Nikki has been seeking God for each design and when the design has taken form a scripture has been brought to her mind.

We've also bought (with some of the record-breaking £500 cake sale at church) a parachute and facepaints so we can have some serious fun with the 72 children in a home-cluster whilst the mothers in our team (er...Nikki and Sonia) minister love and affection to the 9 Mamas.

This is us last year - many of the children were new to the village.

The good news is that we have 5 adults to co-ordinate the parachute games and facepaint, play football etc etc. this year.

One of the many tigers!

So we're set for the first stage of the mission (except perhaps to buy a few giveaway toys from ELC etc.).

More will unfold in the next few days about what we're going to do there - but if you'd like to give to Watoto please see the JustGiving part of our site to the right OR to the medical checks for 1000 children attending Viva projects in the slums then please go HERE.