Running the marathon for Mityana – please help us!

Having won a charity place in the 2015 London Marathon for St Mary Bourne based Mityana Projects Trust, Whitchurch resident Seb Owen will be running on 26 April for MPT. This follows a tough training schedule for the past several months culminating in the full race in two week’s time.

Mityana Projects Trust supports several schools and other sustainable projects in and around Mityana, Uganda.  It has provided buildings, water tanks, livestock and physical support amongst many other things. Every penny raised for Mityana projects goes to the projects themselves – nothing is retained for the running of the charity. You can find out about our work at our homepage.

Please consider supporting Seb in his run – you can support him on his charity web page.

Thanks for your support!

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Mityana – the final chapter (maybe?)

With Livi returning home from another amazing trip to Mityana, we give thanks that all three of the Hampshire Anning girls have made it out to Uganda – a chapter that started in 2008 with Bryony and ended in 2014 with Livi. Our thanks to Dodie for forging this link and to the people of St Mary Bourne and Mityana for their support. Amazing to see latest pictures from Livi of Zirra – a ‘green field’ (forest) site at the start, and now a fully functioning school in 2014.

Final chapter? Well, Livi wants to go again on a gap year in 2018…

We made a highlights video in 2010.

Bryony returning for a gap year in 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Milly blowing bubbles in 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Author with Juma in 2010, still going strong in 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Livi carrying water in 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gap-year trip to Uganda begins

After months of waiting, preparation and fund-raising, the trial gap year visit to Uganda finally departed Heathrow on 3 February. Bryony, Tom and Will will be in Mityana for nearly four months. They will be working at sites including  The School of the Deaf, Maranatha Orphanage, Afinnet, with possible visits to Namutamba, Bukuya and Mityana Secondary School. February 13 Gap timetable is enclosed. You can view some of the places mentioned in the video from the 2010 visit.

Updates will be published on Twitter via @MityanaProjects and @bryonyanning. The main site is at www.mityana-projects-trust.co.uk.

Arriving at Terminal 3

Sergei begins his African adventure

Mityana itinerary July 2010

Tuesday 13th	Depart from UK, St Mary Bourne 3.30 Arrive in Entebbe Stay the night in Entebbe
Wednesday 14th	Into Kampala for the bank, post office, craft fair and lunch at the cathedral guest house. Out to Mityana by 4pm
Thursday 15th	Mityana Secondary Buddy Time Peer group lesson Tour of school – gardens, classrooms + dormitories Lunch (1 – 2pm) Meet with School Council Lesson  in Lugandan (Cranmer & Nolene) Water Carrying
Friday16th	To Ziira Discussion Seedlings/cutting Wooden frame Visit the Hospital
Saturday 17th	a)      Visit a Ugandan home b)      Historical site DM – and Adrian Love to visit the Lake & a new school c)      Meeting with 8 link school head teachers @ 3pm
Sunday 18th	Church Fun Afternoon with Orphanage school children and staff Farm visit at dusk to see the birds
Monday 19th	Out to Namutamba – disabled children’s hospital…..+ lunch Afinnet?
Tuesday 20th	Bulera all day
Wednesday 21st	Bukanaga / Lulagala  (lakeside villages) am Games and class lessons activities – Gardening pm Painting blackboards
Thursday 22nd	Finish working at Bukanaga Finish working at Lulagala Afternoon to Makonzi?
Friday 23rd	To Murchison ………. From Mityana, head North through the districts of Hoima and Masindi . After a re-fuelling stop in Masindi town, proceed to Sambiya River Lodge in Murchison Falls N.P. A forest walk in search of chimpanzees in Pabidi Forest. Birds, butterflies and other primates are plentiful or tour the top of the Falls, where the Nile crashes through a 7 – metre gorge to fall 45 metres. Numerous scenic viewpoints are the photographer’s delight!  If hot, one can cool off in the Lodge pool. Dinner and overnight at picturesque Sambiya River Lodge.
Saturday 24th	Cross the Nile by ferry and set off on an early morning game drive. Your guide helps spot elephant, giraffe, Cape buffalo, Uganda kob and lion. Butterflies are abundant. After a packed lunch you take a boat cruise to the base of the majestic Murchison Falls. Crocodiles bask in the sun and hippos yawn on the way. Spectacular bird life is found including the rare shoebill stork, and you are likely to see numerous animals. Return to the excellent service  and comfort of Sambiya River Lodge.
Sunday 25th	Take another game drive this morning, return to the lodge in time for lunch. In the afternoon take a walk in the surrounding lush forest. Dinner and overnight at Sambiya River Lodge.
Monday 26th	Return to Entebbe Night at Hotel in Entebbe
Tuesday 27th	Trip to Ngamba Island, back to hotel for swim and shower and food…. – return to the UK at 22.00
Wednesday 28th	Arrive Heathrow 7am