Lucy and Jürgen S. from Germany share their Initial Impressions
My wife Lucy (63) and I, Jürgen (70), live in Germany. We visited Uganda in January 2026 as part of a two week tour with four other Germans. We were accompanied by our driver Valens and our guide Iann. Both live in Uganda and know their country like the back of their hand. We drove from Entebbe to Murchison Falls National Park, then on to Kibale, where we visited the chimpanzees. We then continued to Queen Elizabeth National Park and into the mountains to Bwindi Forest, where we encountered the gorillas. From there, our journey took us to Lake Mutanda. We stayed at the beautifully situated Lake Mutanda Resort and had two days there to spend as we wished.
On the first of those two days, my wife and me went for a walk through Mukozi from the lodge. After only about 20 minutes, we suddenly heard some children shouting “Hello, how are you?” from a building below the road. We quickly realized it was a school. A young teacher – we think it was Dorothy Nshemererwe – came up to the road and asked us if we’d like to have a look inside the classrooms. We didn’t need to be asked twice and went with her to the school buildings. There we met her colleague Almegius Musinguzi. Almegius is an extremely friendly man who is simply bursting with joy of life. He showed us around six classrooms, each of which was occupied by about 15 children. He told us that it was currently the school holidays and that normally about four times as many children attend the school. In each classroom, he introduced us to the children. They then wanted to know all sorts of things about us: how old are you, where are you from, do you have children too, what do you do for a living? We were very happy to answer their questions, and the children thanked us with a song. After about an hour, we left the school completely captivated.
It was an incomparably wonderful experience that will always remain in our memories as a highlight of our trip. There is still much room for improvement in the school’s infrastructure, so we were happy to leave a donation for this purpose whilst we were still in Mukozi. After our return to Germany, I celebrated my 70th birthday and asked the guests at the party to make a donation to St Peter’s Primary School instead of giving me a present. This enabled us to make a small donation to the school at the beginning of March. Perhaps we will manage to visit Mukozi again in the coming years. We would be delighted if the planned additional school building were already in use by then.
Best wishes from Germany to Mukozi, with its wonderful, cheerful children and friendly adult residents.
Lucy and Jürgen
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