Photo Gallery Miryante Home in June 2014 Volunteer from the UK poses during a cultural exchange tea ceremony A Volunteer for the UK, Violeta comes to visit. Communications manager Doreen Tigah pictured right. Children performing a welcome dance for visitors Children prepare beans for supper Board Members as of February 2014 Students at the Vocational School complete their practicum of brick laying. Computer Class at the Vocational School Goats Donated by the Ugandan Government Agricultural Support Progam (NAADS) Handover of Directors in February 2014 Graduates from Seventh grade who passed their examinations and will continue on to Secondary School, a huge accomplishment in the Ugandan public school system. Students in the tailoring class at the vocational school The Original Water Source Rose Carrying Water Excavation for the Tank Pouring concrete over the aggregate Searching for stones to mix with cement Fixing Gutters Plastering Tank Children Making Water Filters for Tank Fetching Water from Original Water Source Excavation of Tap Area on Tank Plastering Inside of Tank Mixing and Lowering Cement Collecting Water from Gutters Sifting Building Materials Children and Finished Tank Finished Tap on Tank Nursery Beds Pumpkin Patch Cabbage Patch Building of Chicken Coup Children Showing off Chickens Cattle Cattle Calves Plastering Porch on Dormitory Plastering Porch on Dormitory Inside of Dorm After Plastering Inside of Dorm After Plastering Inside of Dorm After Plastering Inside of Dorm After Plastering Washing the Floor for the First Time After Plastering FInished Dorm Children Showing off Finished Dorm Pit Latrines Before Renovation Bathing Area Before Renovation Digging Pit Latrines Children and Construction of Pit Latrines First Aid Training with Caretakers Children Playing Football Children Sewing Sanitary Pads Children show off books donated by Bishop Flaget School in Chillicothe, Ohio Children Drinking their Morning Porridge Emmy Sweeps the Compound while Children Read in the Background Children Making Nesting Perches for Chickens Innocent Makes a Nesting Perch Peace Sylvester jewerly made for sell by the children Our new road to the school and the phanage. Our Volunteer and the mother during commissioning Children on a new uniform made for the orphanagepha Commission day Children Pause for a Photo The children do some coloring. Doreen and Laura working on balancing the books. The girls take a lunch break. Kabahweza Paulo and Emma show off the goats at the project. The children dig in the garden after school. Basket weaving to sell at the craft market. Building huts along the road side to sell crafts the children make. When the children celebrated Christmas they were given new clothes. Here Eria is sporting his new shirt in the “Miryante fashion show”. All the children gather around to enjoy a soda with their Christmas meal. Volunteer Olly Dally pictured in back row. A large number of students turned up for the first day of school at for the 2014 year at Miryante Technical School. Christmas dinner Cooking cassava Land Survey Map Preparing Christmas dinner Volunteer Max teaches English Olly eats Christmas dinner Olly helps with some heavy duty construction Olly shopping for clothes for Christmas for the kids. Sam The kids show the Christmas gifts they received from St. Peter’s Church in Chillicothe, Ohio. Crafts that the children made are on sale at a market along the side of the road. Liz and the kids Emma Andrew The girls dancing at night Sam Lauren Myers dispensing hugs Jane Andrew and his younger brother Guma. Liz and the kids Guma The children participate in life skills classes. Thanks to donations from St. Mary’s School in Lancaster, Ohio and Bishop Flaget in Chillicothe, Ohio, Miryante has worked with ‘Books for Africa’ to create a library. This is one of the only libraries in the district. Children participate in a Life Skills learning camp. Fr Aloysious and religious people from Wekomiire Parish come to celebrate mass with the children. Fr. Aloysious is the director of the project. Laura Corcoran reads to some children books that were donated by Bishop Flaget School in Chillicothe, Ohio