{"id":1390,"date":"2010-04-01T20:03:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T20:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2010-04-01T20:04:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T20:04:05","slug":"meeting-volunteers-and-the-people-of-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?p=1390","title":{"rendered":"Meeting volunteers and the people of Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1391\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"The Ugandan Easter Yebo volunteers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_1082-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The Ugandan Easter Yebo volunteers\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_1082-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_1082-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_1082.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>We arrived at the Ugandan Wildlife Education Centre (UWEC) ready to start our Yebo support project which has begun today (1st April).\u00a0 We are staying in Bandas next to Lake Victoria (the second largest fresh water lake in the world).\u00a0 UWEC is home to many animals such as lions, zebras and rhino as well as our focus &#8211; chimpanzees.\u00a0 The staff at UWEC are very welcoming and the views out onto the lake are stunning.\u00a0 We are now with all of our volunteers and are looking forward to the next 2 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\nToday we met some inspiring people.\u00a0 Peace, education coordinator, talked to us about culture. Figal, the manager of an organisation, spoke to us about an organisation who supports and homes children who have been forced to live on <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1392\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"Listening to inspiring people\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_1085-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Listening to inspiring people\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_1085-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_1085-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_1085.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>the streets, often due to to having lost their parents to HIV or war.\u00a0 The children (both boys and girls) are given food, a pleace to sleep, education and skills training, and continued support for finding jobs and homes when they reach this stage.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick, is a director of a similar organisation.\u00a0 Patrick is just 19 years old, which inpsired many of us by what he has acheived at such a young age.\u00a0 He is the director of an organisation who supports 40 &#8216;street children&#8217;.\u00a0 Patrick tols us of his life story and experiences due to being a street child himself and how he has turned these negative experiences into positive ones.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1393\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"Cultural talk given by Peace\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_1088-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Cultural talk given by Peace\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_1088-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_1088-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_1088.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nAll of these people have been very inspiring and remarkable.\u00a0 It will be really exciting and rewarding to help them in their projects and learn more about them in the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first day of the Easter Ugandan support projects, meeting our volunteers and meeting the Ugandans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}