----And the Beat Goes On -La La---

Dear Friends

Last Saturday we had a large group of Swedish students come to our AIDS Orphans Program to meet the children and educate the older ones on Human Rights for Children per the United Nations. I was so impressed with these beautiful energetic young people who offered their message in song and dance., particularly with a song written by Fredia Andersson(pictured on right with bottle on her head) and Alfred Strand entitled ”The Convention of the Rights of a Child” The children caught on very quickly as we sang the verse which went--------------- “Every Child on this earth.-----------------is of equal worth -Whoever, wherever------------------------------------The Conventions on the rights of the Child,-----

Then we repeated after the leader;--“I have the right to eat----------------------------------right to eat------------------------------------Right to sleep--------------------------right to sleep------------------------------Right to go to school for free-----------------------right to go to school for free”----

---------------------------------------“I have the right to Privacy--------------------------------Privacy-------------- --- - ---------- Family---------------------------------------------Family---------------------------- Whatever the best for me.----------------------------------Whatever is the best for me---
I have the right to to play-----------------------------------------Right to play-----------------------------Right to say whatever I want------------------------------------------------Right to say whatever I want.

I keep humming the tune all week in hopes I can continue in these wonderful
young footsteps and keep on reminding the children in song about their Rights per the United Nations----

,They invited me to a party that night at Mgahinga Community Lodge right outside the National Park and since I could not afford the trip to get there, Sheba , the Tour Guide Deluxe for Uganda, sent his driver to pick me up and take me home!-

What a great party with the visiting Swedish group, many Ugandans and Sheba had invited the entire local community which consisted of a couple hundred children and their parents, all fed African fare before we started the adult “partying”. Enclosed some pics of me (the lone American) having a good ‘ol time (I even had two cokes, instead of one, that night-Ha)

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