I'm sure you're wondering what I'm doing

My placement here is with an organization called YOFAFO, which is Youth Focus Africa Organization, and they have a few different projects in the surrounding villages.  We are based in Lugazi, and live with the organizations founder and his family.  BTW, when I say 'we' I am referring to me and Stephanie, who is the other volunteer placed with me.  Stephanie is from San Francisco, and is awesome! 
My main project involves helping to start a public health program in the village of Bulumagi.  At the moment they are trying to figure out what is needed most, so I am making home visits with the local midwife to survey the families about what affects them.  It is quite daunting to see the very basic things that they either don't know, ignore, or their lifestyle and environment make it difficult to do, that would make a big difference in preventing some of their issues.  Basics, like not letting your children eat dirt, or fruit that hasn't been cleaned.  Or, not letting all the sick kids play with everyone else. 
Once done with the surveys, we'll be making recommendations on what is needed and hopefully setting up talks for the community to cover some of the topics + more.  Unfortunately I likely won't be here for much of this, a month is definitely not enough!
The other project we're working on is in a village called Kitoola where we are running a children's holiday program - which is basically doing activities with the kids during their break from school.  This is sooooo out of my realm, as I'm sure you can guess!  Besides my obvious lack of kid knowledge, there are many factors making this difficult - most of them don't speak english (thank god for the young teacher who joins us and translates!), there are NO supplies (we have to purchase anything we come up with), they have been very shy to start out, and many of them have to bring their very young, often sick siblings that they have to look after. 
But, I think we've done okay so far - I've even - don't stroke out- sung and taught twinkle twinkle little star and the itsy bitsy spider!  We've drawn, made paper airplanes, hopscotch (minor disaster), played tag and duck duck goose, amongst others!

Now, I haven't really asked for any donations for this volunteering bit, but now I'm going to.  Now I can tell you exactly where it's going and that it's a great cause, and even just $10 goes a really long way here!  We need some craft supplies and I would love to buy the boys a real soccer ball....or a few!  If you have any interest at all, please let me know! 

I'm running out of time, but there is an awesome women's program to tell you about too!