ICM is visiting Uganda to carry out a recce ahead of the Bournemouth Scouts’ Nile 2010 trip.

Members of the ICM Communications team will be visiting Uganda mid-February to view the site of a new vocational training centre – which a team from the 38th Bournemouth Scouts and Avon Explorers will be helping to build in 2010 thanks to support from ICM.

Once built, the training centre will mainly be used to help local street children – most of whom have been orphaned through HIV/AIDS or war – to gain skills in building and allied trades.

ICM is one of the companies supporting the project, entitled Nile 2010. It recently donated money for a brick-building machine, a ‘stabilised compressed earth block machine’, that will be used to build the centre and also for other projects within the community once complete.

In 2010, as well as helping to build the centre, the team of Bournemouth scouts will meet their Ugandan counterparts and join in their activities. They will also leave camping equipment behind to help the Ugandan scouts by supplying them with practical and modern kit.

ICM Communications will be meeting with Ugandan scout leaders and finding out more about the project. Re-visit ICM’s Social & Economic Development pages soon to discover the outcome of the trip and to view images from the recce.

By Susanna Woods