Greetings from Gabby and David!
We started our day with a team breakfast where we ate good food and bonded over team inside jokes. After breakfast, Joseph, a member of Sports Outreach, took us to his neighborhood (one of the slums in Kampala). We arrived at their chapel and met many children from the area. We began our time in the community by visiting the catch-up school. This school is in place for students who need to catch up due to personal/family reasons. The school teaches them topics ranging from math to information on effectively taking care of themselves. The school is entirely run by volunteers in the area who dedicate their lives to service for their community. After learning about how the catch-up school is structured, we got to teach the children a religious song from our early childhood. We journeyed with about 100 kids to the soccer field. We did activities such as soccer, duck-duck-goose, ring around the Rosie, and relay races. The kids in this community were so full of joy and laughter as we spent time with them today.
We ate lunch as a team following our visit to the neighborhood. After this, we headed to a partner of Sports Outreach, a center where kids can play chess and find community with other kids. This center was located in another slum in Kampala. We met many different families from within this community. With these families, we discussed the importance of ministry, provided water filters, and demonstrated how to use and clean these filters properly. They showed us their aspirations for the facility, and we toured where these students learned to play chess and engage in other activities such as shoe and jewelry making.
Following today’s events, we had a great dinner and played card games like Euchre (which brought out only the best of our emotions) while debriefing about our day. It was a great way to get to know each other better, and our gratitude for each other grows every day!
