A group of 20 adults and young people led by Rev James Hunt of St Peter’s Church, Bishop’s Waltham will travel to Uganda next summer to take part in a WATSAN trip. There are up to five spaces available on the trip currently.

The trip is the chance to visit WATSAN’s life-saving work on the ground in South-West Uganda, getting to know our amazing staff team, and meeting the communities and beneficiaries of our work. The team will be fundraising for our Kazuru gravity flow scheme project, and will carry out manual labour and community engagement work on the project in situ. The trip will take place between 15th and 31st August 2024.

There will also be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to visit some of Uganda’s most stunning sites, including the gorillas of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, a safari at Queen Elizabeth National Park, and visits to the Kilembe mines, and Amabere Ga Nyina Mwiru Caves in Kibale Forest National Park.

You can download the full itinerary here.

The group leaders will be Rev James Hunt, who led a similar WATSAN trip in 2017, and Ian Bensted, WATSAN’s Chair, who has extensive experience travelling in Uganda. There are currently five other adults, two young adults and seven teenagers signed up for the trip, with spaces available for up to five more people from any part of the WATSAN community. Leaders are fully trained in safeguarding for young people, and the group is a mixed one of Christians and non-Christians. Before the trip you will have the chance to meet and bond with the other group members during three to four pre-departure orientation meetings in the UK – the first of which is on 7th January 2024.

The trip will cost around £2,500 per person, of which £500 will go directly towards funding the Kazuru project. The team will doing their own fundraising for travel and the cost of being in Uganda, and will also raise money for the project itself. Support will be provided to the group to raise money together.

If you are interested in joining the trip, please contact James at jameshunt1966@gmail.com or on 07570 042916.