Gerald Ngotowa, Mooni Sports Clubs chairman, is now known for the Scanians as The ice Sculptor whom never seen snow before.

All of the school children gathered in the playground to receive their new schoolbooks, bought with the 5500 SEK worth of Christmas donations we collected. It was a great pleasure to hand over the books to the school, knowing that they were dearly needed.

Twiga wishes our members and cooperation partners a Happy New Year! The Board of Twiga would like to thank everyone for a wonderful year and we are looking forward to an exciting 2010 with project development, activities and knowledge sharing in Sweden, Uganda and Kenya.

November, the last school month of the year has come to its end. The youths of Mooni Sports Club are now finally free after two stressful weeks packed with exams. As far as we know most of the players have passed their grades, many even finding the exams easy and passes with top score.

At the European Development Days 2009 Åke Larsson, director for Österlen folkhögskola, spoke about our table tennis project in Mbale, Uganda, and about the advantages of mixing education with sports to create a motivating climate for development.

The Uganda Committee has now chosen a path for our future work. Our new partner is Health Alert - Uganda and they work with hiv/aids issues and have a special focus on children and youth. We have now applied for money for a project. Health Alert would like to carry out an youth exchange program together with a teenage centre in Kampala.

Twiga had an organization deveopment day on September the 19th where the board, project managers, representatives from working groups and other active members in the organization gathered in Malmö, Sweden. The goal of the day was to discuss and to find solutions as to how we can improve different areas within the organization.

Uganda is a country that, like many other African countries, has been formed during the colonialism. This means that Uganda CONSISTS OF four different kingdoms. Baganda, the largest ethnic group in Uganda, has long wanted the kings to regaintheir former power. Something that the government does not support and today the kings have no constitutional power.