Welling School Tag Rugby Tour of Uganda 2015

On June 27th 2015, 13 Students and 5 Staff from Welling School will head for Uganda to coach some of the most underpriveleged children from government schools and orphanages, on how to play the game of Tag Rugby. The Students have spent over a year raising money to fund the project themselves. Over £20,000 has been raised so far! As well as coaching the children in Uganda they will also be training the School Staff and leave enough equipment and resources for the schools to continue playing and enjoying the game. They will also undertake a community project where they will help to make improvements to an impoverished village school. Donations can be made using this 'justgiving' link :


https://www.justgiving.com/wellinginuganda


You can follow their progress through this Blog. Thank you for your interest.

Monday 29 June 2015

Sunday 28th June 2015: Uganda!

Having all boarded the plane safely the ripples of excitement started to spread amongst the Welling School party. This consisted of bars of dairy milk and starburst at the ready for take off. All seemed to be going so well until Olivia and Amy realised that their dairy milk had slipped off the tray and onto their seats and had melted nicely! Mr Brown had the last laugh as he sat in his exit/extra leg room seats and realised that Miss Faragher had successfully booked and paid for two normal seats at the extra cost of £100 due to the wrong seating configuration on the online check in! However, Mr Loizou was relieved!

We all enjoyed the delicious plane food, in flight entertainment and the bumpy turbulence. When the seat belt sign was switched off, Christian, Sam, Aaron and James wasted no time and were already making friends with the Ugandans in the galley at the back of the plane.

After 8 and a half hours we landed (with a bump) in Entebbe at about 10pm local time. We queued for immigration where they took our landing cards and placed them neatly on top of the 1000's of others cards which had clearly been there since Mr Loizou and Miss Faragher's recce in 2014! Once we were all through we waited for all 36 bags. The bags were loaded on to trolleys and we pushed them through to the car park where we met Mike and some of the Ugandan Tag Rugby Trust team. Our bags were loaded onto a bus which left for Jinja and we sat on another bus which took us to a local hostel for the night.  Fish and chicken were provided as a light bedtime snack at midnight and at 1am we all headed off for some sleep before our early departure the next day.

Breakfast consisted of fresh fruit which was so sweet it tasted like it had been dipped in honey, eggs and sausages. Mr Brown enjoyed one piece of plain white bread.

We set of on our drive to Jinja at 8am and likened the journey to a theme park ride experience with the addition of a few close shaves, goats, cows and chickens in the road. We arrived safely at Jinja backpackers late morning, ahead of schedule. After an introduction to the area we had an enjoyable lunch and went to a local field/rugby pitch  where we met the young leaders. Here we practiced some drills, techniques and games which we will use tomorrow. Apart from Sam, crashing in to Uganda's very own Usain Bolt, Scott showing off his diving skills (minus the pool) and Jazmine eating good her insect repellent we came away unscathed. We then walked into Jinja for a refreshing drink where the group made lots of friends with some local children. Then we retired back to the backpackers where we planned for tomorrow, ate and waited for some water so we could shower! 

Scott served dinner (see pics)!

That's all from Team Uganda for today.



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