Visionary Troubadour

As part of the VisionForce Safari I organized, we scheduled several days in Uganda visiting a visionary young man I’d met online four years earlier, Clovis Ategeka.

The trip to Uganda and the VisionForce volunteering we did there was paid for through the organized Safari, which also allowed me to stay in East Africa another four weeks on my own.

One of the participants on our journey preferred to take a chartered flight across Uganda to Fort Portal rather than the long bus ride, so we got a bird’s eye view of the stunningly beautiful country. Below that’s fellow VisionForce ally, Keith Kavisic, who joined on the safari having some fun before take-off.

Later the same day when our chartered flight landed, I got a ride into Fort Portal to spend the night in a banana grove country side with Clovis’ family. There was no electricity or running water, but for me it was a tropical paradise. It was one of my increasing number of experiences realizing how simple and beautiful life can be–how little we really need. They had an abundance of family, community, natural beauty, time and more.

To be continued…