Today there were two workshops planned. During the morning session the dream workshop was held. The afternoon was filled with some sport and game activities. The dream workshop, hosted by Mirjam, Hedda and Heleen, had the purpose to let the students of the KSPH to express their dreams. In Holland the small boys have the dream to become a air plane pilot and they tell everyone about their dream. Within Uganda the children have difficulties speaking out their dream for the future. The work shop started with making a dream catcher. Via a creative approach the focus was set on 'your dream'. Shortly after the small groups have started the workshop, we noticed that the KSPH students were very good in making the dream catchers (so the vocational class really pays off)
In the second part of the workshop the students were asked to name the qualities and skills of themselves and of the other ones in the group. This was a difficult step to take for most of the students. But bit by bit the students came up their qualities and skills. By keeping asking questions the dreams were expressed carefully. At the end the qualities and skills could be combined the dreams. For example, one of the students would like to become a taxi driver. One of his qualities was 'helpful'. So based on the quality the dream might fit well for him. All dream , qualities and skills were put into the dream catcher of the individual student. This was the end of the dream workshop. We had a positive feeling about this work shop.
In the afternoon a lot of the students gathered at the sports field (which was leaning down quite steep). Everyone joined the session, it didn't matter whether what kind of disability you have. At the end wheel chairs, crutches and walking frames were everywhere! The children really loved to do warming up session via a slalom with pylons. This was followed by some games. The absolute climax was playing ticker with a ball. The students in a wheel chair were pushed by fellow students. But as soon as the student with the ball came close, the wheel chair students were abandoned by the fellow students. The fellow students didn't want to be cut out of the game, even when this mean you have to leave the other student alone. When everyone was exhausted, we did a cooling down and sang a last song. After that this wonderful day came to an end.