Written by Carolyn

Here is a picture of Ben and I shivering at the top of Sca Fell Pike – the highest point in England - on Saturday. It was a long hard slog, which involved leaving Coventry at 5.15am, arriving at the foot of Sca Fell, at Wasdale Head, at 9.15am, up to the top for 1pm and back to the car for 3.15pm, and home again for 7.30pm. The weather was beautiful until we got to the top, cloud from nowhere and it was FREEZING! Fortunately the cloud lifted fairly quickly and we were able to enjoy the views again.

After eight hours driving and six hours climbing I was shattered!!! Ben would have done the climb faster except he had to go at the pace of his poor old very unfit mum!

However we both got a real buzz out of achieving it, and more importantly, once all our sponsor money is in we will have raised all we need for our trip, and a bit extra too.

Hi all,

Two months to go til we leave for Uganda!

Preparations are well underway at the office with CRB's being checked for the team, final booking for hotels and transport...and the team are making their preparations also with lots of injections! buying first aid kits, clothing (ladies remember you need to wear skirts, it's the culture!), and raising the final deposit of £420 each which is due at the end of September...not long now!

All the team have made the first deposits and some have made their second so please do continue to support them however you can especially for those who are struggling to fundraise the final bit!

Personally I am needing to fundraise some more to be able to get there with my husband coming too! so I know what it's like!

NEWS
The children's team are meeting in September to go through their planning of activities with our sponsored children, so please pray that this goes well for them..

Watch this space for more news..

Hi everyone,

This is the beginning of my blog for the ALL AGE - U Factor 08 Team - trip to Uganda.
A team of 27 people made up from volunteers, families & sponsors to Soroti in Uganda including 6 young people aged between 12-18 yrs.
(with Global Care Children's charity - see globalcare.org.uk for more info on the charity)

We have just completed the training day for the trip on 28th June. There was alot of information to take onboard from the day including customs, culture & clothing, along with very important information like child protection policies, risk assesments and hostage policies! (the last one is a little unnerving!)

So now we have signed our lives away, we can look forward to the 13 day trip on 22nd October this year.

Our next milestone is 30th September for our final deposit for the trip! please pray for us all as we try to raise funds for this so we can go and support Global Care's work out there!

We are going to be part of select teams which have been created to fulfil the need over there at the projects in Soroti, Uganda.

They are -
Aids Research Team
School/Children's Activities Team
Video Production Team
Logistics Team
Admin/IT Team
Building Team

As you will have noticed we will be filming the entire trip for a documentary we are producing in order to raise awareness of Global Care's work in Uganda but mainly to use for fundraising to show at events, local churches and community groups.

The aims of the trip are as follows -
- to produce a professional DVD (perhaps even several) for Global Care for use in fundraising
- to support the work whilst being over there at our various projects
- to create an environment where our team members (including 6 young people) can experience a life different to our western lifestyle and challenges and create an appreciation for what we have here
- to celebrate our 25th Anniversary during the trip (where Global Care started, all those years ago!)
- to give our sponsors a chance to meet their sponsored children and see the impact that sponsoring makes in the lives of the children - to make the world of difference, one child at a time.

Keep checking back for more U Factor updates!