Touch of England in Uganda

June 09, 2009
Touch of England in Uganda

Today is National Heroes Day in Uganda so the children were out of school, so we planned a “field trip” for them. This morning we had the pleasure of going to see an English Garden in Uganda. Beryl and Allan Went are from Essex, England and are full time missionaries here in Masaka. They have a ministry called Love in Action; primary schools, training young men and women for life and running a internet cafe in Masaka…they aren’t busy at all 🙂

Anyway, they have lived here for 6 years and in the last 4 years have bought a house, a plot of land and have developed it into a beautiful English garden. I say developed because when the plot was purchased it was nothing but weeds, rocks and rubbish when they purchased it.

At 10am all 18 of us walked over to their home and had a tour of the gardens. We saw every kind of vegetable, including strawberries which you don’t have in Uganda. We saw beautiful flowers both exotic and English, sugar cane, bamboo, and fruit trees like mango, guava, pomegranate, and apple. It is amazing how God can develop something of rock and rubbish into a garden of beauty and peace.