Year In Review
Students work with street children in Uganda
December 2011
Eight Longwood students and a staff member spent part of the 2011-12 winter break in Uganda on a mission trip.
Working through Abaana, a charity organization for the children of Uganda, the Longwood team worked with some of the more than 2,000 street children in Kampala, the capital. They provided healthy meals; worked with boys in New Life Homes, an orphanage/group home; and distributed toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, protein bars, athletic shoes, children’s books and movies. Items were donated by members of the Longwood and Farmville communities.
The Longwood team, which was in Uganda for 17 days, had to raise $50,000 to cover the expenses of the trip. They were joined in the east African nation by students from Virginia Tech and colleges in Tennessee and Georgia.
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