The Village of Buwooya - Tues Feb 17

On Tuesday morning Kyle, Moses, Patti and I drove over 2 hours to a small village Buwooya, where Moses family is from. To road to Buwooya was quite an experience.  The landscape was beautiful.  We stopped to buy "chicken on a stick" and "liver on a stick" from roadside vendors!  (Who knows where this was cooked!  But it tasted great and stayed down!)  Be sure to watch the little video of the vendors delivering right through your car windows!

To drive on dirt roads for a long time proved to be quite an adventure.  It gave a whole new meaning to "pot holes."  When we got to the village, we drove to a school with 200 kids packed into the size of a triple garage made totally out of sticks.  Moses started this school in his village because this village is so very poor with no electricity, no running water, absolutely nothing and government education cost money and he wanted his village children to have an education.  We arrived in the rain.  The scene was so moving as the children were so happy to receive us.  I don't think they had ever seen two white women together and they touched our skin and were fascinated by seeing themselves on our digital camera. I probably took 100 pictures of different kids.   They were chanting "uncle kyle" as he had orchestrated last fall replacing their stick roof with a tin roof by making the need known to some friends in the states.  Moses's mom also taught at this school and it was such a privilege to meet this woman who is changing her little village by the bringing education to these children.  Please watch the video to see the children crammed into this little school house, chanting Uncle Kyle.  We arrived in the rain, but the atmosphere brought us to tears.

Moses's School in the Village of Buwooya

Moses's Mom with Auntie Patti One and Auntie Patty Two

The depth of these experiences have changed my life forever.