Our Success This Week

This week at Wallace High School, pupils have been working constantly to continue raising awareness for the Soul Touch Group within the school, with the help of the amazing Mrs Stewart and even more amazing Miss Bonnar.

Wednesday started off with an emotional live Skype link up with the Dwelling Places Childrens Home in Uganda, with Laura, Jenn and the beautiful children who stay there. Their bright smiles and angelic singing inspired us to continue our fund raising and to constantly make our best efforts to make everyone aware of the poverty within Uganda and the hard work of Dwelling Places staff to rescue, rehabilitate and re-unite abandoned children with their families. We were so encouraged by the fact that the children there exuded hope and were radiant with joy… mind you they are with Laura and Jenn, and those girls brighten up everyone’s lives!

We were all really encouraged by the new members to Soul Touch, who kept up with the pace of the challenges constantly thrown at them, and came up with hundreds of new fundraising ideas, especially new S1’s; Ainsley, Chelsea, Leigh, Louise and Raegan, who took part in writing letters to the children of Dwelling Places, creating collages of pictures and constantly remaining cheerful and maintaining the focus of helping others. Many of the boys are working hard to organise a football tournament and girls are working to arrange another water challenge, after the huge success of last year’s event.

Many of the pupils have been working to raise awareness in the school, by updating the Soul Touch and Fairtrade boards in the corridors. As well as looking bright and beautiful, these boards are packed full to overflowing with photos and information about the work of both groups.

We are looking forward to keeping in touch with Uganda, and with Laura and Jenn’s travels. Hope to speak to you again on skype; we love love love love you!