Global Issues Intineary

Our trip plan and schedule
Schedule & General Curriculum for Global Issues Internship 2010
Partnership with FOCUS Uganda/InterVarsity USA
May 29-July 5, 2010

Institute – New Haven, CT
May 29-June 2
USA team arrives by noon on May 29
Sessions begin 2pm Saturday May 29
Sessions end 6 pm with dinner June 2
Main speakers: DR. EMMANUEL KATONGOLE, Jim Tebbe, Jim Erwin, Ken Janke

Travel
June 2-June 4
Vans to JFK leave at 6:00pm
Flight Emirates: JFK to Dubai departs 11pm
Land in Dubai 7:45 pm June 3
Have dinner and stay overnight at Hotel
Depart for Entebbe June 4 at 8:25am
Arrive in Entebbe on Friday June 4 at 2:45pm

In country Orientation with FOCUS
June 4-6 Gerenge FOCUS camp
Pick up by FOCUS at airport and go out for tea/dinner
(Bond with culture…go shopping for food with Ugandan partners)
Sessions on Team Building and sharing of cultures

First site experience
June 6-16
Team A heads to Gulu and CVI - 2 vans FOCUS & Deo
Team B to CLD for church and kids home- CLD transport (One SG to New Start)
All teams leave for Murchison Falls June 16 AM

CLD group
1. Work at School and medical clinic
2. Farm work
3. Rotate work in the city sites (Katonga slum)
4. One SG at New Start Home all week
4. All SG’s to the village outreach in Callero June 13-15

NEW START CENTER

**Giving Andrew and Eric a break through running programs for a few days at the house: getting the boys ready for school, leading morning/afternoon Bible studies/worship sessions, walking with them to class, organizing arts activities in the afternoon, etc.)
**Helping the boys with tutoring after school
**Helping Prisca, the cook, with meal preparation
**Cleaning!!! (inside and outside: washing clothes, sweeping the yard, cleaning mattresses, etc.)
**Supporting the staff with lots of prayer and relationship-building; spending time listening to their hopes for the organization--I wish I had more time to do this with each person and I really think both parties would benefit from intentional conversations around these topics
**Spending time letting the boys teach what they know--Luganda, lessons from school, bead-making, etc. It's a really gratifying and useful exercise for the boys to be able to share this with visitors and volunteers.
*** Sport with the boys


CHILD VOICE INTERNATIONAL

1. School projects
a. Concrete the floors all $2000
b. Painting the walls
c. fixing the desks
d. Survey of adult literacy and needs
e. Distribute books

2. Kulabel farm fence $200
3. Prep for Women's Conference on June 19 $500
1. Outreach and discipleship
2. Marketing


Other than this we would be certainly helping out CVI with chores, ECD program, food & water.

We would also rotate doing chapel lessons!

For the school projects it is critical to do these in partnership with the Lukodi community. We would want to work with local men to concrete and fix desks and the children to paint.


Teams a. Interview graduates
b. Health and Life skills teams
c. VBS and youth ministry


Murchison Falls Debrief
June 16-18
Time to tell stories, midcourse debrief and do MS study
Arrive at noon on 16th and leave very early 18th
Two lunches, 2 dinners, 2 breakfasts
Transport: 1 mini-bus from south for 3 days
FOCUS van plus 1 Deo van from north

Special Opts team from USA (3 folks)
June 12-22
Arrive in Kampala June 13 at 7:45 am
Will be at CLD June 13-15 and do village outreach with Team B
All travel by bus to Gulu on June 16
Bring with Florence and other women’s conference speakers to Gulu
June 16-21 in Lukodi
June 21 bus to Kampala and fly out in morning of June 22

Second site experience
June 18 to 30
Team B heads to Gulu in 2 vans
Team A to CLD in Kampala in mini-bus
All teams leave from Murchison Falls early AM on 18th

CLD group
1. Work at School and medical clinic
2. Farm work
3. Rotate work in the city sites (Katonga slum)
4. No groups to live at New Start during this time
5. All to the village outreach in Callero June 28-30

CHILD VOICE INTERNATIONAL

1. School projects
a. Concrete the floors all $2000
b. Painting the walls
c. fixing the desks
d. Survey of adult literacy and needs
e. Distribute books

2. Kulabel farm fence $200
3. Does Women's Conference on June 19 $500
1. Outreach and discipleship



Other than this we would be certainly helping out CVI with chores, ECD program, food & water.

We would also rotate doing chapel lessons!

For the school projects it is critical to do these in partnership with the Lukodi community. We would want to work with local men to concrete and fix desks and the children to paint.

Teams a. Interview graduates
b. Health and Life skills teams
c. VBS and youth ministry

Debriefing
June 30 to July 4
Team A & B meet at Gerenge by dinner time of June 30
We will have debriefing, sharing and celebration that night and until noon
of the following day
End of FOCUS and IV time at noon July 1
July 1 USA IVCF team moves to Banana village for USA debriefing til noon
on July 4

Travel to USA
July 4-5
We fly out of Entebbe at 4:15pm on July 4 through Dubai
We arrive at 7:45am at JFK
Students can be picked up after customs after 8:30am


USA Curriculum On the FOCUS side

Pre –institute readings
Child Soldier Books shared with FOCUS students once there
World Christian Bible Studies
Articles to read Attached are a few

Institute
Quiet Times in Luke or Mark? These Quiet times done by FOCUS too.
Speakers on Global Issues

Orientation at Gerenge
Team Building
Culture sharing

During the project
Manuscript Bible Study Mark 1-4
Various speakers
Visit to Awari Hill
Small group debrief times at night
Each Team is divided into 4 led by 1 staff
*Student Discussion topics

Spiritual Formation
Quiet times in the journal
Morning Devotions led by students
Evening worship and reflection



** Student discussion topics

Beginning with our culture sessions at Gerenge, I would like to see more formal conversations on Global Issues among our FOCUS and IVCF team members so as to gain perspectives from the west and from East Africa. I believe these could be very powerful times of learning and understanding each other’s culture. Also, we could see Global Issues from a new point of view.

We would discuss such issues as:

- The Aids crisis in Africa
- The effects of war in Uganda
- Corruption and it’s impact on the poor
- Impact of western involvement in Africa on present affairs
- Evangelism and social justice ie. The Lausanne Covenant
- Homosexuality and the recent government crackdown in Uganda
- Environmental issues and impact on the poor
- What makes Christian humanitarian work different than humanitarian work?