Vivian is a Central Trustee as well as the director of Wakisa Ministries

in Uganda. We have sent 60 large parcels of knitted squares to Vivian since

the scheme began in 2007. The girls at the Centre have been delighted with

the squares and the blankets that they have been able to make for themselves

and for their expected babies.

Vivian wanted to thank us for giving them a gift of love and friendship

in the form of the squares which have made such lovely blankets. We have

also been sending postcards of different places and wild life in Devon.

Vivian stayed with our Diocesan President, Mary and her husband

Norman. Travelling around Devon gave Vivian great joy, recognising some of

the places from the postcards and the sheep and ponies on Dartmoor were seen

on a beautiful sunny day driving back from Ilfracombe. Vivian also visited

Exeter, Plymouth, Buckfastleigh and Harberton, telling us about her work as a

representative for Mothers’ Union, but especially about the status of women in

Africa and her work to give women equal rights and opportunities worldwide.

She also showed us a film of the training given to the expectant mothers

in her care at Wakisa Ministries., some of whom have suffered abuse from as

young as 13 years old. A special thank you was said for the squares while the

girls held up the blankets.