Day 1 - Friday, February 5, 2010
Participants will fly from their hometowns to Kampala, Uganda.
Day 2 - Saturday, February 6, 2010
Participants will arrive at Entebbe International Airport on the shores of Lake Victoria, which is about an hour away from Kampala, the capital of Uganda. You will be met by a transportation representative holding a large sign - "Uganda Seva Challenge" to take you directly to the Sheraton Kampala Hotel.
Sheraton Kampala Hotel is ideally located in the heart of the capital city of Kampala. The hotel is within walking distance of many main attractions including the National Theatre craft market, Uganda Golf Course, Nakasero and St. Balikuddembe market, shopping malls, as well as many dining and entertainment spots.
Your trip leader and Mission Coordinator, Sally Bassett, will meet individuals at the hotel as they arrive. Bags will be taken directly to your room before getting a GOOD NIGHT SLEEP!
Day 3 - Sunday, February 7, 2010
8:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. Morning yoga is located in a separate room in the hotel's health club.
9:15 a.m. A healthy buffet breakfast awaits you on the second floor of the hotel.
10:30 a.m. A welcome briefing is scheduled outside on the hotel property under a private covered area. We will have individuals from the Acholi Quarters along with several other speakers. After lunch we will go to the Acholi slums to meet with families and distribute food.
When the outbreak of fighting in the north occured in the 1980's, thousands of members of the Acholi tribe moved to Kampala looking for safety and work. The King of the Buganda donated land for the Acholi to settle, which has become the Acholi Quarter. Approximately 10,000 tribe members who had fled to the Quarter in the 1980s to escape the war-torn north still live there.
6:00 p.m. Dinner will be at a local restaurant followed by group processing.
Day 4 - Monday, February 8, 2010
7:30 - 8:45 a.m. Yoga followed by breakfast.
9:30 a.m. The group will transfer to the Youth Aids office in Kampala for a detailed briefing of the situation in Uganda.
11:30 a.m. A visit to the Invisible Children's satellite office will be made before proceeding for lunch at a local restaurant.
1:30 p.m. A visit to the Kasubi Tombs (a UNESCO site) and Uganda Museum will be made before returning to the hotel. Situated on Kasubi Hill, within Kampala, the Kasubi Tombs site is an active religious place in the Buganda Kingdom. To the Buganda, the Kabaka is the unquestioned symbol of spiritual, political, and social state of the Buganda nation. As the burial ground for the previous four Kabakas, therefore, the Kasubi Tombs is the place where the Kabaka and others in Buganda's complex cultural hierarchy frequently carry out important centuries-old Ganda rituals.
The Uganda Museum is the biggest and oldest museum in Uganda which started in 1908 at Lugard's fort on Old Kampala Hill in Kampala City. It later moved to Makerere University at the school of industrial and fine arts and lastly to Kltante Hill where it stands today. The Museum has different sections including traditional music, archaeology, independence pavilion, ethnohistory, and palealontology.
6:00 p.m. Dinner will be at the hotel this evening followed by group processing.
Day 5 - Tuesday, February 9, 2010
7:30 - 8:30 a.m. Yoga followed by breakfast. Place luggage outside your room that you wish to leave at the hotel during our two night stay in Kasana.
9:30 a.m. Depart for Kasana in the Luweero District, which is about an hour drive from Kampala. We will check-in to a guest house before proceeding to the current birth clinic just five minutes away.
11:30 a.m. The Seva participants will talk with registered midwives about birth in Uganda, spend some time with the HIV women, participate in "buying day," of their beads and learn how to roll beads, work at the current birthing center, possibly participate in yoga sessions with them and have lunch at the Volunteer House.
7:00 p.m. The group will be divided up to have dinner in the homes of the women we met today.
Day 6 - Wednesday, February 10, 2010
7:30 - 8:30 a.m. Yoga will take place in a fenced grassy garden area followed by breakfast of tea, fruit, and omelets.
9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Depart for the new Birthing Center for a full day of work on the back of a motorcycle (latte is option). We will begin with a discussion with local community leaders about the history of war in Luwero District. The actual construction taking place will depend on what phase of the project is taking place with the local workers. The group will participate in a project with the local community. Lunch will be served on site.
7:00 p.m. Dinner followed by music and dancing in the evening.
Day 7 - Thursday, February 11, 2010
7:30 - 8:30 a.m. Yoga followed by breakfast
9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Work at the Birthing Center site and learn about the solar system and water filtration systems.
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch before saying farewell to our new found friends
2:00 p.m. Depart for Kampala and check-in to the Sheraton Hotel.
The remainder of the afternoon is free. Enjoy time at the hotel pool, a site often see in the movie, "The Last King of Scotland."
6:00 p.m. Dinner at the hotel followed by group processing
Day 8 - Friday, February 12, 2010
6:30 a.m. Breakfast at the hotel
7:30 a.m. Transfer to Jinja for a half day of river rafting on the Nile! White water rafting at the source of the Nile River is one of the most fun adventure activities that you can experience. Upon arrival at the Nile, you will be given a briefing on your safety which will be followed by practical training prior to the start of the rafting trip.
Mid-day you will stop for a wonderful buffet lunch on the river before transferring back by bus to the original location.
Return to the hotel late afternoon.
6:00 p.m. Dinner at a local restaurant.
Day 9 - Saturday, February 13, 2010
7:30 - 8:45 a.m. Yoga followed by breakfast at the hotel
10:00 a.m. Depart the hotel for the New Hope School and Orphanage. A fun filled day is scheduled with the children at New Hope. We will have enrichment stations where the children can rotate and participate in games, educational modules, crafts, fluoride treatments, English lessons, and other activities based on the talent and interest of our own group.
12:00 p.m. Box lunch will be served.
New mattresses will be brought to the school and participants will help create a community garden at the school which will be used both for food and to generate funds for the school.
4:00 p.m. Return to the hotel.
6:00 p.m. Dinner at the hotel followed by group processing.
Day 10 - Sunday, February 14, 2010
Happy Valentine's Day! Sleep in and eat a leisurely breakfast!
10:30-12:30 p.m. Yoga Class
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Buffet lunch
Enjoy the afternoon at the pool, have a massage, or catch up on emails.
6:00 p.m. This evening we will enjoy traditional dancing and music at the Ndere Centre. Ndere Centre is home to the well-known Ndere Troupe, Africa's dancing encyclopedia. In Africa, written words did not exist thus Africa's cultural history, literature, knowledge and wisdom were recorded and passed on to succeeding generations through the medium of performing arts, music, dance, story telling and poetry. In efforts to salvage and conserve African heritage, Ndere Troupe performs a repertoire of more than 40 authentic Ugandan dances and songs accompanied by various indigenous percussive, stringed and wind instruments. the Troupe engages in various projects aimed at keeping African generations educated about traditional entertainment and also uses their art to spread knowledge about such current issues as modern farming techniques and HIV/AIDS. A delicious buffet of traditional Ugandan cooking compliments the evening's performance.
Day 10, Monday, February 15 - Day 12, Wednesday, February 17, 2010
7:30 - 8:30 a.m. Yoga followed by breakfast.
9:30 a.m. Travel to Nyomero (approx. one hour from Kampala) to work at the OTM/Building Tomorrow school. the academy will hold 325 students in grades 1-7.
Vegetarian box lunches will be served each day. The group will be involved in a variety of activities depending on the building phase at that time. Volunteers will meet many of the community children who will attend the school and assist with any remaining construction projects, side-by-side with the community. Dinner will be at the hotel the evenings of February 15 and 16 followed by group processing. On Wednesday night a farewell dinner is scheduled at a local restaurant.
Day 13 - Thursday, February 18, 2010
The work has ended. Now it's time for the Safari adventure!
Depart early morning taking a panoramic drive north-west through the famous Luwero Triangle and Masindi Town to Murchinson Falls National Park. Check in for the night at Paraa Safari Lodge, FB.
Day 14 - Friday, February 19, 2010
Go for an early morning game drive to search for giraffes, lions, hart beasts, elephants, Cape buffalo and many other mammals. Birds include the Black Chested Snake Eagle, Blue Napped Mouse birds, the Secretary bird, Swallow Tailed Bee-eaters and the Silver Headed Agama. After lunch, enjoy a two hour boat ride on the placid Victoria Nile to the foot of the magnificent Murchison Falls where the Nile plunges through a narrow crevice and over a 40 meter drop. En route, you may see the Nile crocodile, pools of hippo, water bucks and a variety of bird species including the rare Shoebill Stork. Dinner and overnight at Paraa Safari Lodge, FB.
Day 15 - Saturday, February 20, 2010
After breakfast, visit the top of the falls before returning to Kampala.
Fly home in the evening, to arrive in Newark, NJ on Sunday, February 21st at 12:30pm.
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