Yesterday we really enjoyed our special visitors. A few months ago Dr. Honey Halpern visited our class to tell us about her working visit to The Stand Tall Education School in Kampala, Uganda. That inspired you to have a bake sale and a raffle to raise money for the school. Yesterday Nicole Schoela, the President and founder of the school visited us. An added bonus was they were joined by Sam and Doris Andema, who are graduate students at UBC and educators in Uganda.
Sam and Doris told us about education generally in Uganda and we were shocked by how difficult it is to get into secondary school and then into university. We were also amazed by the crowded conditions in Ugandan schools and even at the university level. Doris and Sam thought that Stand Tall For Education School can be a model for other schools in their country.
Nicole told us that she first volunteered at a school that to us looked quite terrible but Doris and Sam thought was very good by Ugandan standards. Nicole vowed to build a really good school in Uganda that would be free to students and more like a Canadian school but suited to Uganda. We loved seeing how the children are learning to take care of chickens and learning to sew and do art as well as the regular school subjects. Anyway you are all writing great reports on the visit so I won't go on. Doris and Sam were also very happy to visit a Canadian school and Sadie and Gaven, as our class presidents, gave them a tour that they really enjoyed. I know many of you are even more committed to helping in Uganda now. One day I think many of you will work and help in places that will need your skills!
Sam and Doris told us about education generally in Uganda and we were shocked by how difficult it is to get into secondary school and then into university. We were also amazed by the crowded conditions in Ugandan schools and even at the university level. Doris and Sam thought that Stand Tall For Education School can be a model for other schools in their country. 
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