Katie and Neil are aiming to cycle a total of 243 km between them - the distance from Kampala, the capital of Uganda, to Kumi, where they will be joining a Mission Direct team this summer. We've covered the cost of going on the trip, so all funds raised go directly to the project.

This year 2022 sees Mission Direct move to work at Kumi Primary School. This is a State Primary School which was founded by Missionaries at St Stephens Church in 1926. Some of the original buildings are still in use together with additional classrooms from 1980s which is when it was handed over to the Municipality. There are over 1,000 children at the school and this will double over the next ten years. Whilst it has 17 classrooms 8 of these are occupied as teachers homes and all are in poor condition. The 1926 classrooms are surprisingly basically strong but they have large and low windows which makes them fairly unusable in poor weather as the wind and rain penetrate through these and parts of the roof. All the classrooms at the school are in poor condition. Our project over 2022 and 2023 will be to relocate the teachers into new or alternative accommodation and to renovate the old classrooms to make them fit for purpose.