A Visitor from Uganda

 

Margaret Kakaire was our speaker on Thursday. A leader and guest manager of AOET Uganda, she is visiting the area for the third time. On Friday evening, she was scheduled to do a cooking demonstration as part of preparing a fund-raising dinner at the Presbyterian Church of Christ (formerly PNECC) in Saratoga Springs. The Saratoga area has been a stalwart source of support for AOET Uganda for over 20 years, with Paul Phillips, a member of that church and our Rotary club, a key leader in the effort. (He is seen behind Margaret in the photo.)

Margaret, who is 63, discussed the very difficult times when she was growing up in Uganda, especially under the "very, very bad regime" of Idi Amin in the 1970s. She recalled hiding in ditches and in the bush from murderous soldiers. She had equally harsh words for the regime of Milton Obote in the early to mid 1980s. Since then, she said, there has been more freedom and security.   

In other news, we are scheduled to do our regular semi-annual cleanup of Dunning Street tomorrow (Saturday) morning, meeting near Forest Cleaners at 8 a.m.

 And we have a pancake breakfast scheduled at the Malta Ridge Fire House on April 30.