What can I say about the staff at World Vision Gulu Office besides WOW! This is an amazing group of people, who are devoting their lives to improving the lives of the sponsored children, their families and their communities here in the Gulu District. As we have spent the week here with the staff here, I have gained a lot of respect for them and the work they do here. Every staff person that we encountered here is passionate about their work. They were very knowledgeable and able to communicate the information on the projects and programs that they oversaw. They are very devoted to their work. Their are too many to write individually about each, but I will highlight a few for you:
Arriving at the Entebee Airport late last Saturday night / early Sunday morning, we were greeted by Charlotte, our Vision Trip Coordinator from the District office in Kampala. What a gem World Vision has! Even though we were late, Charlotte met us with a smile on her face and was ready to get to work. She did a great job organizing our week, making sure that we were able to see the many programs that World Vision supports here in Gulu. On Monday, after Jeff and Kim weren't able to see their sponsored child, Charlotte and the World Vision team went to work to make the necessary arrangements to have him brought to the World Vision office the next morning, so that they could meet with him. We truly appreciate her and thank her for spending the week with us.
Next, we met our World Vision Drivers: Martin, Peter and Bright. What a group of guys this is! Not only were they great drivers (which you have to be here in Gulu - we will explain when we return), but they were also very knowledgeable about the culture and were able to answer all our groups many, many questions. Getting to know each of them and their own personal story was incredible. They were also full of questions for us and very inquisitive about the US and Michigan in general and asked many, many questions of us. A fantastic group of guys.
Next up, Harriet. What a pleasure to get to know her. Harriet is one of five Child Development Coordinators working in the Koro Bobi ADP. With 4000 children in the ADP and only five CDC's, it's not hard to do the math and figure out how many sponsored children each works with. Harriet has 820 children that she works with. Harriet took Jody, Kim, Jeff and myself out on Monday to visit our sponsored children and you could see the relationships that she has built with each child and their families. She also went with us when we visited the Oxen Plowing program and walked us through the program.
As I stated earlier, there are so many, that I can't write about all of them, but we also want to thank Arthur, Patrick, Max, Lillian, Jane, Pauline, Goeffrey, Janet, Olympia, Stella, and Denis for their efforts this week in showing us their work here.
The total team work that this group has and the devotion they demonstrated toward the children was nothing less than amazing. We are totally blessed to be united with a group like this in trying to better the lives of the children and their communities here in Gulu. We thank God for them and offer them our many blessings and prayers. May God keep them and guide them each day as they continue His work here in Gulu.
Pat
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