“I Want to Be Your Hands...I’ll Go Where You Send Me”

For those of you who are unaware of the Hands at Work organization, I will give you a little description from what I know. Basically, Hands at Work does a lot of training for people who want to go out into different parts of Africa and help orphans and those children who are living in child-headed households. This is a passion for the Wiebe family, so they’re hoping to receive training here that they can take with them to other parts of Africa (possibly back to Uganda!)

The last few days have been pretty low key, just settling and getting to know the other staff and volunteers who are working here. We were invited to have lunch with a handful of the staff on Sunday and Vivian, one of the staff, gave us a tour around the campuses. We’re staying on a campus which is located at the top of a hill. Most of the staff stays in the ASM (Africa School of Missions) housing down the road, but due to spacing we’re staying on the ‘farm’ as they refer to it as. I love it here though! We’re all enjoying the beautiful views as well as the huge backyard. There’s two other families staying up where we are and they’re all so great. There are a few teenagers that we have gotten to know and it’s nice to have people our own age to hang out with.

We’ve also been able to visit the nearest town a couple of times to pick up groceries and take a look around. I can’t wrap my head around the fact that it’s almost Christmas, it’s so hot and totally feels like summer. It will definitely be weird coming home to cold weather and major holiday spirit!