How the Uganda village board gaming convention was interesting for children

My name is Oloya Elvis, I am one of the C.5 member in the butterfly project who have been train to create change and to be a leader in the community.

On the 21st may morning we pack our board game they includes power grid, Mid night party,Imperium Settles,Java,Mexica and other

For the trip to the convention and we arrive safely on first day of the convention we started with the opening ceremony were the banner of the convention was pull on. We then started teaching the table game to kid this includes sky runner.

After teaching table game from morning to midday kids went for their lunch and some tested new food like rollex and soda.And kids enjoyed it.

the C-4’s serving the kids soda and rollex for lunch

After lunch some kids went for some of the tournament games like tribes ,Omweso[local game],x-wing ,treasure island .the tournament games were the game which kid were to compete in it in order to go to final and if at the end you are the winner of the tournament you are awarded.

kids at convention also enjoy sport like foot -ball,volleyball,cricket ,Running,which they have never participated before and I hope this may create change in their life and also kids learnt a lot of skill sure as proper planing in imperium settles and other games also they learnt skill from other games and I think they can use the skill in their live to achieve and to create change in their community

And other also it empowered other to know what they are good at[they discovered their skill

this game is called Omweso it is a local in Uganda and it is about moving of beads in the hold

On third day of convention we did some game and also LARP and the theme for the LARP was GLOBAL WARMING were participates were to kill some monster who have build a shield on their planet which allow carbons in but it does not allow it out that increase temperature on their word year by year.

kids also enjoyed playing level 1 game[easy games] like Midnight party ,Villa Palleti .some of the kids were also playing games on their bed includes Citedal.

We also did Twilight Imperium which was the hardest and the longest we did at convention.I also participated on it were i came number 4 on the game of galaxy conquest,politic and trade.

We also did Art arena to empower some of the artists at the convention were the theme was global warming.they also enjoyed painting some of renewable and non-renewable energy sources.This was to tell them about how global is warming from the past generation of life and how negative human activities have affected our planet

they have energy sources according to how they look like yellow is sun shine[ solar energy].

kids who attended the convention were over 132 and all of them holding board game that they enjoyed playing

On the last day of convention all the winner of the board game [tournament] and top sport winner were awarded shirt .

After the awarding the winner of the convention then begun the closing ceremony with goat roasting story telling by the kids and drama and theme was EARLY MARRIAGE.

I n the morning we gave some of the board games to the board game club the one which the found interesting for their club members[the one they like.

They over 10 board game club which attended the convention

And we made it back to Kampala