We toured the five primary schools today, starting at Rweteera in the south and then up to Kigarama, Kiko, Kanyawara and finally Kasiisi (which is pictured in yesterday's entry).
Rweteera Primary School was originally built in 1961 by a British tea planter in the area. The first building is now decrepit and in dire need of replacement. It was heavily damaged in the magnitude-7 earthquake of 1994. We had another performance by the same turquoise-and-black-garbed group that did such a fine job in the big celebration on Wednesday.
Kigarama School is beautifully situated a mile or two north of Kasiisi, just off the road to Fort Portal. The school uniform color is pink. It’s striking and unusual to see large groups of boys dressed in pink shirts.
Kiko is a new school, relocated from the Kampala road into the tea fields to quietness. Kiko’s color is a tea green. The tea grown around Kiko belongs to the Findlay group. It is said that most of this tea is sold by Harrod’s of London. There are hundreds of thousands of acres of tea around Kiko and Fort Portal. The tea fields abut Kibale National Forest along its northwest boundary. Very few animals will venture into, much less cross, a tea field because there is no cover, no food and no water. The tea fields amount to a barrier to interbreeding among land animals.
Kanyawara School has a new headmistress, Josephine, standing at the left. She has improved the school significantly since our last trip. It now has sporting facilities for netball and volleyball, and new latrines under construction.
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