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.