Field Day

Tabiro, and it's neighbouring community Kikunu, were home to hundreds of children. We had originally planned to organize a few field days in Tabiro, but when we visited a church in Kikunu and saw number 14 on the list...

we thought we'd better organize one there too. (In case it's too small, the program says "14. Football. (Visitors Vs. Children))

Uganda is not a very easy place to be organized. Around fifty kids would show up to each field day. An hour later, there would be over two hundred. We originally tried organizing them into a few teams, but since more and more children of diverse ages kept arriving, it didn't really work. We still gave them the headscarves meant for that purpose, which many of them wore every day after that.

We tried explaining different games to them, but we discovered that, for the older kids, soccer was the sport of choice. In the background of this photo you can see one of the goal-posts. When the field isn't being used for soccer, cows graze on it and keep the grass short.

The little kids watched, or looked at the photos we took of them, or played with the parachute:
Can you make the balls go all the way around without switching direction or falling off?