VISIT UGANDA

CRU Trustee Rhona Marshall has been visiting Uganda regularly for over 30 years. If you are a CRU supporter and would be interested in going with her, then please email her on rhonauganda@gmail.com

DISCOVER UGANDA VISITS

CRU ‘Discover Uganda Visits’ are organised by Rhona, and normally run for 2 weeks once a year. They are designed for supporters and friends of CRU who would like to visit Uganda for the first time, and offer you a chance to see the impact of your support. It’s a wonderful way to see just how much difference CRU, with your support, is making to peoples lives!

Read what supporters thought of a recent trip:

From a first-time visitor:
This has been a life-changing experience! I want to give all the glory to God for making this trip possible. He guided us through all of the things we did and went ahead of us to make sure we met the people He wanted us to meet. The happiness of the children at the School and people in the villages was infectious and I’m so grateful to have experienced that. The generosity of everyone we met was also wonderful – I really felt that we received more than we gave. It’s so humbling how quick people were to give to us even though they don’t have much.
I hope to go back to Uganda in the near future, as I’ve made great friends out there whom I really miss now I’m home. I also miss the warmth and joy I experienced whilst I was there, and the way that the school lives by their motto: “With God all things are possible”.

Joanna Tookey, First Year University student, July 2026.

From a regular visitor and former CRU Trustee:
Uganda 2026 was such a phenomenal success, in so very many ways. It was staggeringly good! The whole group showed such inspired energy, drive, commitment, flexibility and good humour. We completed the many tasks which presented themselves with such such joy and laughter that it never felt like work. I believe that CRU’s established partnership with Maria’s Care was further strengthened, in readiness for future developments. Also we visited a former pupil – now an exciting new contact in vocational education. The ethos, ideas and aims of her project have the potential to benefit both the less-academically gifted and especially the deaf pupils at Maria’s Care. The goodwill of friends and strangers throughout our visit (and multiple God-incidences!) resulted in many successful outcomes. I was often astounded – though I already know God is Good. On reflection, I recall times when I was overwhelmed into silent appreciation of all that God was guiding and empowering us to do in His name.

Anne Doggart, Former Trustee, 4th Visit, July 2026

“Having recently become a Trustee of CRU, I thought it was time to see what everyone was talking and praying about! I was expecting the poverty, the dust and the dirt, and the lack of opportunities, perhaps even hopelessness. What I discovered – as well as the majestic beauty of the landscape and its flora and fauna – were the wide smiles and laughter of its charming people, a School that was a learning family and so many wonderful Christians. I met people who inspired me to the depths of my being by the way they have risen above all their circumstances not just to have a good life for themselves but to give back sacrificially to their community and their country.”  Meriel Carboni March 2025

‘Discover Uganda Visits’ are run only when the Committee consider it appropriate. We reserve the right to not to take someone if the Committee deem that it would not be in the best interests of Maria’s Care or the other projects and people CRU support for them to go. The CRU Committee’s Decision in relation to ‘Discover Uganda Visits’ is final.