Apr
13
a beautiful day
Posted by: Natasha Chiang | April 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Since I got back from Uganda, my team and I have been working together to fundraise money to send back to Busolwe, Uganda, to continue the kindergarten project that we started there. Today, the school is a registered primary school, and offers five different grades including our original Kindergarten. It is called Mango Grove School. […]
Mar
15
global community
Posted by: Natasha Chiang | March 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment
One of the 15 5-year-old kids we enrolled in our Busolwe summer Kindergarten trial classes recently died. He was too weak to fight off some kind of virus because he already had severe anemia and was quite malnourished. We found out through a phone call to the village confirming the progress of the community projects, […]
Feb
25
note: development
Posted by: Natasha Chiang | February 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Browsed through a blog of the UBC students who have replaced us in Busolwe this term, and I realize that she is experiencing a lot of the same things I did. She is faced with the same disappointments and struggles as I was, even though each of us left behind a report outlining all the […]