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Ugandan Educators Exchange Visit, April-May 2007
Kasiisi Primary School, Fort Portal and St Maria Goretti Secondary Schools, Makerere University

For 10 years, Principal Margaret McQuillan and Field School in Weston MA have partnered with Kasiisi Primary School near Fort Portal in western Uganda, pictured above. The first visit by Weston school staff to Kasiisi School came in the summer of 2005. Since then, support of our partner schools has been expanding and increasing in many ways. Our latest initiative, sponsored very generously by Weston, was to bring six educators and teachers from Uganda on an exchange visit to Weston in late April and early May 2007. Welcome, Uganda! was an event of a lifetime for our visitors and for us.

Meet the Welcome Uganda Visitors ..... Welcome Uganda Booklist K-12 (PDF, 400k)


April 15	April 16	April 17	April 18	April 19 9:30 PM Visitors arrived in Boston	April 20 Travel to New Hampshire to see snow	April 21 Travel to Cape Ann to see the ocean
April 22 Weston First Parish Church, Potluck at Leylands	April 23 Welcomes in Weston Town Hall and Weston schools, potluck at Stevens	April 24 Welcomes in Weston schools and at Nixon School in Sudbury Special: Photos by V. A. Rakov	April 25 Global education conference in Boston	April 26 Ruby Bridges assembly and visit to Plimoth Plantation	April 27 Boston tour, pizza at Silberbergs, "My Favorite Year"	April 28 Dollars for Darfur, Sponsors Reception, Weston
April 29 Concord Trinitarian Congregational Church	April 30 School Day	May 1 Dinner at Karibu Ugandan Restaurant, Waltham	May 2 School Day and Red Sox	May 3 School Day	May 4 New York City: Central Park	May 5 New York City: United Nations and The City
May 6 New York City: Museum of Natural History, NY Botanical Garden	May 7 Art at DeCordova, Dinner at Nelsons	May 8 School Day	May 9 School Day	May 10 School day, farewell meeting at Field School	May 11 School day, farewell party at Stevens	May 12 Whale watch cruise
May 13 Departure on the 8:20 AM British Airways flight An excellent Boston Globe article about our visitors!	May 14 Special: Farewell message from John Kasenene	May 15	May 16	May 17	May 18	May 19