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Hi, Jen. What language do students speak?

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How do children travel to school?

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What sport are popular at your school?

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What celebration do you have at school?

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How does your foundation help families?

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What do students want to be in the future?

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What is the hardest thing for some children?

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What do you students want to ask us?

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What food do children eat at lunch?

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Do children sing songs at school?

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Do the children wear uniforms?

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How many children go to your school?

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What is your favorite thing about the school?

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What subjects do children like most?

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What can children play at school?

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What animal is going to sing near the school?

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Hello everyone, my name is Jane and I'm the Secretary of Adelante Africa.

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And I want to talk to you today because next week, or the following week, on the 1st of June,

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you're going to do a charity run for Adelante Africa.

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So I want to tell you a little bit about Adelante Africa to motivate you to do the run.

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Now, I want to make a link between your school and the school in Uganda.

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So to start off with, I want to tell you how it started.

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we um we uh went to Uganda in 2008 and we were in a lorry that was converted for tourists

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and we got stuck in the mud and we saw the school and the children who go to it

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and we found that the school was very poor and the children uh the children were were were the

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the poorest of the poor children in the area.

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So we decided to make a new school for them.

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And in 2010, we built the school.

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Here's the school, the new St. Joseph's,

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and here are the children at the school.

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And the school is now a very active and growing school.

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And I want to let the children tell you about it themselves.

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So here we go.

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This is St. Joseph's Figueza Primary School.

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It is located in the western region of Uganda.

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These are our classrooms.

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We have two national flags,

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Uganda national flag and the Eastern African flag.

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My name is Silao Vifin.

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I am in P7 class.

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I am 13 years old.

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These are our teachers.

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And we have there even the head teacher.

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Okay, this is the head teacher there,

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the one that's been speaking on the telephone.

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and here there's a little boy who wants to speak to you i love my school saint joseph i'm in

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primary five but we have a problem of desks we have 11 desk only we are 66 children but we sit

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six on on one desk others sit on the floor while writing others stand while writing

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so he's saying that they have a problem they don't have their they have a lot of children in class

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but only 11 desks now this girl is going to talk to you my name is i'm in the primary six class

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This is from El Fix Gras.

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That's a nice way to greet your teachers, isn't it?

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You have to learn how to do that clapping. You say, welcome, teachers, and give them a clap.

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OK, so the rest of this talk, I'm going to answer the questions that you sent me.

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So, first of all, what language do they speak at school?

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Well, I think that you've heard that from P3, when they're eight years old, they speak English at school.

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and do they wear uniforms? I think you probably saw that they do wear uniforms. Most children

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wear uniforms. Some children are too poor and the parents can't buy the uniforms but most children

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do wear uniforms. How many children go to your school? Well there are 614 children at the school.

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Some of the classes have as many as 100 children in each class. What celebrations do you have at

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school well they have christmas and easter like us and it which is the muslim uh festivity they

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have ugandan holidays like independence day and they have international holidays like international

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women's day that they celebrate every year how do children go to school well you can see in this

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photo that the children go to school on foot the um the uh the there aren't any school buses

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or or trains and cars and no cars either because cars are very expensive so all children go to

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school by foot and sometimes they take they they walk as much as five kilometers to get to school

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what is the hardest thing for some children well sickness because this area is is very poor

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and they don't have money to go to the doctor or to buy medicines so atlanta africa sends every week

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we send this school nurse to the school and she takes medicines so she goes to the school

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and and and treats the children and you can see there are many children for her to treat look

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these are all the little children and then here are the older children all going to see the nurse

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and this little girl would like to say tell you about another thing that is hard for children

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so you see there are 614 children at school but there are many children who don't go to school

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they stay at home and work with their parents on the land so what do you eat for lunch

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now unfortunately this video is not working i don't know why not i'm sorry um but it was a

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video of the children having lunch and they eat a maize flour they eat a thing called posho which

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is made of maize flour and they eat it with beans and in um and if possible some green vegetables

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they can they have them then they don't they don't eat bread usually but as a special and special

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occasions they eat bread this was at christmas so every morning for breakfast they eat porridge

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this is porridge which is also made with maize flour and water and a little bit of milk if they

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can if they have some milk and but but very occasionally they eat bread as a special treat

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but they don't eat anything on the bread there's no nofia or i don't know what you eat on your

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bread but they just eat bread on its own without anything and then their sweeties these are their

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sweeties this is a sugar cane and it's like a stick and you pull off the outer bit and inside

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it's sweet. So this is what they have as a special treat. What's your favourite thing at school and

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which subject do you like most? Well the school was closed but what I did was ask some of the

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children in the children's home who go to St Joseph's to answer the questions. So here you go.

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Okay, what favorite thing do you like at school? Yes, Grace? I like writing notes. Good girl. Rosie? With my friends. Good girl. Your son? I like reading at school. Very good.

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Which subject do you like most?

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Kato?

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I like English 1 most.

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Very good.

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Grace?

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I like mathematics most.

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Very good.

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Rosie?

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I like English most.

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Thank you.

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Good.

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The video is not a very good quality and the accents are a bit difficult.

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So here, you'll see here, I forgot to tell you,

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But here at the side, you'll see that I've written the answers, what they say, so that you understand them.

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All right, so what do you want to do in the future?

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Again, here are children from St. Joseph's who stay at the children's home answering your questions.

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And look here, you can see here the things that they say.

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Okay, so you can see they want to be very big jobs in the future,

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including a prime minister and a head teacher good okay so what animals can you see at school

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now in Uganda there are lots of birds you see birds everywhere so here this is this is a very

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little bird it's a kingfisher and this is a very big bird it's a really big bird it makes the

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branches bend but you can see it's very beautiful it's very it's blue it's got a blue a blue crest

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and creepy crawlers lots of spiders and caterpillars and reptiles here's a beautiful

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blue lizard there are lots of lizards like this in Uganda and sometimes you can see snakes too

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sorry there's a snake sometimes you can see snakes too what games do you play well the children in

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Uganda do not have toy shops. So the toys that they play with are made from things that they

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have at home. So here you can see there's a bicycle, but it's made of wood. And here there's

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a dolly that's made of leaves, banana leaves, these leaves from the banana, the banana plants.

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then this is this is a game that they've made one is from a um a tube like um i think it's

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probably bamboo that's hollow in the middle and look what he does he's amazing amazing yeah

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i think it's okay and here watch this watch carefully

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can you see that they get a leaf and they cut about half of one side off and the other side

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cut the other the alternate side they cut the other side off so there's like one side here

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one side here can you see here there's one side and there's the other side they've cut that bit

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off and they've cut that bit off and then they stick a twig bit of wood in the middle and when

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they run it goes round and round in the wind it's like a a homemade helicopter and this is a this is

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a race that you might like to to try to try yourselves they have here a bowl with water

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and cups they run to the bowl pick water up put it in their mouth as much as they can put in

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and then they run you see this little boy's his cheeks are full of water and look what they

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okay so the idea is the first person to fill up the bottle is the winner of the race

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so it's quite a fun race what sports are popular at school and these they're playing netball which

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is very similar to basketball and that's a very popular game especially for girls and this is

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football and in Uganda boys and girls play football and these are girls playing football actually

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good how does your foundation help families well we do lots of things we we have a children's home

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we give fruit trees to to families you help with those and then we have a a school for for a nursery

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and early primary school we uh some Spanish doctors go to Uganda to to to operate and we

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have a class a hairdressing and a sewing class and we also have a secondary school so we have

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lots of different ways of helping the community especially with education here are the doctors

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that were there in Uganda last year here they are operating and this is what they did

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188 patients 76 surgeries and nine of those were on children this is the young women sewing and

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hairdressing classes here is the sewing class here is the hairdressing class then the hairdressers

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the the sewing class we give them machines and then they can go to the villages and make clothes

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for their for for people in the villages to earn money and this girl has started a saloon she was

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in the hairdressing class and now she has a saloon. Do you sing songs at school? Well again

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I have asked the children in Amwana Tugendi to sing you, the children's home, to sing you a song

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that they sing at school. So this is a song that they sing at St Joseph's but the children aren't

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wearing uniform because it's holiday time. Okay so here let's see it so you can read that you can

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read the words here. This is the chorus and this is the song.

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OK, as you can see, that's a great song.

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All right. Now, these are the questions that the children have written for you.

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so I've answered the questions that you asked the children in Uganda and now they would like to ask

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you these questions I'll send the questions to your to your teachers but just I think there's

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a couple I think it says here do you have fellowships at school I think we call those

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clubs so do you have clubs at school and the last question do you do handiwork at your school

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that's like things like learning to sew or making baskets or making pottery so do you do those sort

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of things at school all right so I hope this has been interesting for you and I hope you're all

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motivated and ready to do the run on the 1st of June and I'm going to be there I'm coming to run

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with you so see you on the 1st of June okay bye