In May this year Adam returned to the Kampala region in

Uganda and stayed with the local Pastor, Eddie, his wife Jane and their children. Pastor Eddie works alongside Ian and Phyllis Hasson of Rock Ministries (N.I.) Trust.

Thanks to Castlerock Cub Scouts donating the collection from their Annual

St George’s Day Service, Adam was able to buy a local disabled girl called Bagonza Joweri a wheel chair. This was a great help to her and her family to enable her to get around their village as before Bagonza was confined to and left sitting on the floor of their humble home. Adam also presented the young lady with a Cub scarf which she proudly wore.

Adam was also able to buy two water tanks which will bring clean water for the Bible Gospel Church and local school in the Butangaala, Jinja region.

With some of the money raised from a charity event organised by Articlave Flute Band, 50 chairs were bought to help the Ladies of Hope

Women’s Ministries in Ggaba and these chairs can be hired out for different functions and so help the ladies bring in a small income to help the needy families in surrounding villages.

Adam travelled to the Hoima region and went to a village called Kitondoora, which is Pastor Eddie’s home village and is a six hour journey on treacherous road conditions. Here he visited an old blind lady for whom he had helped build a house last year and was able to take her a new mattress, blankets, bed clothes, salt, sugar, bread, rice and soup. The old lady was so excited and grateful that she sang and danced around her simple abode with delight and thanked the people back home for their kind generosity.

Adam stayed in Kitondoora for a while and learned how to live off the land by digging locally grown vegetables like cassava and sweet potatoes and collecting water from the local well. The village has no electricity, running water or any toilet facilities. Before leaving the village Adam was presented with a live cockerel from the locals as a “thank you” for all the generous gifts he had presented to them.

Before leaving Uganda Adam visited some local orphanages, which help local children whose parents cannot afford to keep them or who have died of various diseases and was able to present the orphanage with much needed nappies, baby foods and wipes for the babies.

Adam would like to express his sincere thanks to Castlerock Cub Scouts, Articlave Flute Band, the various local businesses, family and friends who gave up of their time and energy to help him raise the £1450-00 he was able to take to Uganda and which was directly used on new and ongoing projects. He also wants to thank everyone for their prayers while he was in Uganda and for his safe return to Northern Ireland.

Plans are well under way for Adam’s next visit in 2012.

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Lindsay Graham