Last week, SDV saw a number of people come and go. New friends were made and some old ones bid goodbye.
Charles, whose brainchild is SDV, visited from Kampala over the weekend. Oliver travelled from Bushenyi in Western Uganda, and stayed for the better part of the week.
Sam headed back to university and Sri, who came to Sironko for one month and ended up staying for almost three, left for the US.
On Thursday, the usual program at SDV was suspended, and instead we played movies (The Gods Must Be Crazy I and II) and music videos.
And later in the day, in a moving farewell, we said some goodbyes. As per tradition, the occasion included music and dance performed by a group of women, young and old.
(You might have to turn up the volume a bit to hear this clip.)
And the parting gift was a chicken! It was an inspired choice, as some of the volunteers had been rather fixated on the chicken in the villages - such as how there seems to be one in almost all the outdoor photos, not to mention the many that scratch around SDV and sometimes wander in.
What will happen to the chicken? We are not entirely sure yet, but it has become a mascot of sorts for now.
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