Sunday evening, we met our good friend Moses (see earlier posts) for a community needs assessment meeting in Nabuti village. It was pretty amazing. Several days prior, someone went through the village with a loud speaker advertising the event (a lot of advertising is done that way) and quite a large number of people attended including several political leaders.
The purpose of the meeting was to find out from the people what they felt were the biggest problems that needed to be addressed. After much discussion including lots of translating and some drama, the community decided that education was the biggest concern. Parents feel their kids are not able to get the quality of education they need. (I thought that was very interesting considering the other top priorities on the list, clean water, poverty, malaria.)
Some school children greeted us with a couple of really cool musical numbers.
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