ACC Primary School

The new African Children’s Choir Primary School captures the beauty of the landscape as well as the children it will serve. On Monday afternoon we went with a former choir kid to the site which is in Entebbe near Lake Victoria. From the middle of the campus one can see the expanse of the Lake as well as beautiful homes along the other banks while it is all surrounded with mango, banana, and jackfruit trees.

We met the project manager, Steve, an American working with Engineering Missions International, and the foreman, Jonah, a Ugandan who had been with the project from the beginning. Steve gave us a tour of the rounds, which from the pictures I saw April ’08 have progressed a great deal. The school buildings and dorms are both structurally done. They need the ceiling plastered, walls painted, and detail work finished.

The structure was created with earthquakes in mind since the site is on a fault line. Every other section is reinforced with a hand poured column of cement. The 80 meter (length of a football field) school building is so square and exact it’s amazing. It reminds me of God’s work. I guess that’s why he made us so intricate and precise so that we might be able to do the same with that which we build. Every stone was laid and measure by hand at the school.

The windows, which are made out of a local wood called mugavu, have been cared for a great deal. Each one is shaped and sanded by hand. They varnish the wood and joint pieces just perfectly so that each part seems to flow as a single unit. The beams holding up the roof are arranged in a beautiful rhythmic style that is both functional-providing a 2 meter overhang without interruption from columns, solid connection with the building to avoid a roof flying away- and educational- once they are stained they will be left open to teach kids how the building was constructed.

An impressive work of art in my opinion and definitely a labor of love. I’m glad my church in Casper could be partner financially. I’m also pleased to know the mission of ACC will continue on in such beauty.