Tasks Ahead!

Next week, maybe the week after as well, we will be really busy. The reason is (a) we will start the training session for new and old local volunteers on Monday, lasts until Saturday next week, (b) we will carry out the VCT in Kazo in cooperation with Wakiso district next Friday, (c) we will receive nearly hundreds of kids daily in our centre from this week since it is already holiday time and (d) we will start constructing the poultry factory this week.

For the VCT, we are targeting at mobilising as many adults and children as possible. Last time, when working with A-Z, we mobilised over six hundreds. We are looking at a thousand this time. I will schedule one and a half hour everyday from next Monday as practical training time for all local volunteers to go down to the community where they will start promoting the test. I will, very likely, call volunteers from Brto lam to help with the work here. The good thing of working with the district, instead of an organisation, is that the testing will be conducted more frequently through out the year and those HIV-affected individuals will be taken good care of. This is a big achievement for KICVOP. I need a holiday for that!

I have been looking in vain for a piano in Kampala. Today will be the last chance for me to actually getting one. John an I will go to Musicland, a somewhat store where we hope to find something painted with black and white, to try out our last luck. My initial plan was to start a community choir and piano lessons for all the people willing to learn. If the piano cannot be found, I have to compromise on a keyboard, which means I will only start the community choir and postpone the piano lessons indefinitely until the surface of a piano.

Kazo Community Choir-I believe this will be the first community choir in Uganda. And music will in a way unite all community members without obvious effort.

When I looked up the website of Kampala Music School, the so-called best music academy in Uganda, I found all piano teachers there hold the same qualification as I do. So I then decided I should make the best use of my music knowledge here in Kazo. Let's see how far I can go with this.