Our day at Retrak

Today, Holy Thursday, we spent much of our day at Retrak, an NGO which serves street children (primarily boys) and helps them to "Retrak" their lives, ideally reuniting them with their families or placing them in a foster family. No one is sure how many street children are in Kampala but it's estimated at 15,000 or more. Today, our Ursuline delegation was tasked with playing a soccer game, providing & serving lunch and organizing a hip-hop dance contest for the children at Retrak. We were joined by some of our friends from Empower African Children and we were so grateful for their help because the crowd was huge and demanded a lot of attention from each of us. We must also admit that our EAC friends really helped out in the soccer game!! There is some dispute about the final score but maybe we lost 4-3. Probably we made a more respectful showing in the hip-hop dance contest which created quite a sensation with the street children as well as passers-by, neighbors, etc. It was a beautiful expereince to see these young people, from totally different worlds, come together in friendship and festivity - a wonderful Serviam-inspired event which seems so appropriate for Holy Thursday.

Michael, the hip-hop champion, receives the grand prize

Meghan with the second & third place winners, already wearing their UA Texas shirts