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Peter and Johan head off to Uganda

 

Peter and Johan Welsh are heading off to Uganda for 10 weeks. They are staying at Hippo House (our HQ within the Queen Elizabeth National Park) and will be busy visiting school, community groups and working alongside the staff of the National Park.

They will be running a blog so that we can all keep upto date with the adventures and find out more about what it is like to Volunteer at this fantastic Park.

 

We will be giving out more details over the next few days

 

Park to Park Challenge 2011

This year’s challenge took place in Yorkshire as intrepid members of the Twinning Project Team undertook the 3 Peaks.

The challenge involved walking up Inglebourgh, Whernside and Pen-y-Ghent and the Team aid it was much a mental challenge as a physical one! Once again the Challenge was Supported by

Hampshire Transport Management and our thank goes to them

and especially to Steve Stroud.

  To see more photos of the Challenge

     

 

QENP Tourism Manager visits QECP

Agnes Nakidde the Warden-in-charge of tourism at the Queen Elizabeth National Park paid a flying visit to Queen Elizabeth Country Park recently. Having attended (with colleagues from UWA) the World Travel Market event at the Excel Centre in London, Agnes managed to spend a few days meeting with some of the Project Team and visiting some of the Twinned Schools.

Agnes said ‘I really enjoyed my visit, especially to the schools, I feel that I can go back to Uganda and spread the word about the Twinning Project.

 

Katunguru Primary School Film a Real Winner

The Twinning Project has commission some films about our Twinned Schools in Uganda, The first film featured Katunguru Primary School. The idea of the films is to give the English Twinned Schools an understand of what life is like in Uganda and to answer some of the questions that the English children have about their Ugandan counterparts.

The Children of Hart Plain Junior School really enjoyed the film of Katunguru. Teacher Tara Howland said "This helps to make the twinning arrangement come to life"

The Project is planning to produce a film about each of the Ugandan Twinned Schools as well as some of the community groups and Park Staff.

 

 

 

Above - the Park to Park Challenge

Below - Project Team Members meet with Agnes Nakidde and Dr Andrew G Seguya Executive Director of UWA

 

Our Next Event

An African Evening

At

Queen Elizabeth Country Park Visitor Centre.

Friday 27th January 2012 -7.30pm

 to see our full calendar of events

 

This Year's Park to Park Challenge will be held on

Saturday 15th July 2012

 

The Challenge will be to travel along the Staunton Way to Queen Elizabeth Country Park which is about 8 miles and we encouraging people to do so as African Animals! 

Project Snippets

 

Volunteers Peter and Johan Welsh will be spending 2 months in Queen Elizabeth National Park starting in January 2012.

There main tasks will be to improve on the school communica tions, oversee the filming of the twinned schools and meeting with some of the local communities.

If you would like to Volunteer for the Project please contact the Project Leader at enquiries@queenelizabethparks.org

 

 See the new Project Blog Site at www.qeptp.wordpress.com

 

 Uganda Voted Number 1

That well know Travel guide book and web site publisher Lonely Planet has voted Uganda as there number 1 destination for 2012. So it is not just the Twinning Project that thinks Uganda is a great place to visit.