Grace

Grace is in her late 30s, early 40s, has two daughters, and is the director over health for Child of Hope. She is super skinny, has a big smile, and is super funny. Her husband also works at Child of Hope as a teacher. Grace is one of those people that gets along with everyone, can scold while still being funny, and you can tell she gets really attached to people. She has worked with other NGOs but has worked at Child of Hope for four years. Whenever she sees us she comes out to greet us and asks us why we have not been by to visit more. Grace is one of those people who makes me sad when I think of leaving Mbale. I know that when I leave I’m going to miss her, her passion for helping the people in the slum, her humor, her cheekiness, and her example of hard work.

Phillip

This is Phillip (telling Dane something). Phillip is the bomb. He's the nicest man I have possibly ever met and he gets things done. He's the acting director of Child of Hope, the NGO that we've been doing a lot of work with these past few weeks and he's been so great to show us around, invite us in, and respect us and our opinions, even though we're just college kids. He knows everyone in the slum where he works, he's a pastor for his church, and he's the director of welfare for Child of Hope when the directors are not in England fundraising. Even though he has a million things to do, he always makes time to talk to people. One time when he was showing us around Dane (the other volunteer I'm working with) expressed interest in an instrument this guy was holding. So Phillip stopped the kid and asked him if he'd made it, how much it cost, and how he could get them. Basically he's legit and I'm glad to be working with him.

I'm sad because I had a better picture of him (one where you can actually see his face) but this computer isn't recognizing it. Oh well.

P.S. I love how many things are going on in this picture. Phillip is telling Dane something that Dane's writing down. You can see the little kid peeking out from under Dane's notebook, and there's Devin in the background playing with all of those kids. I'm such a good photographer. ;)