Bowling, jambalaya and music by 27 Lights and Wizmar to benefit the Uganda Education Project

by Sheila Stroup

When Melissa Cochran and Zach Stewart went to Uganda as volunteers in June 2008, they had no idea what they'd find there.

"Before we left, people told us, 'Don't drink the water,' but there was no water," Stewart, 19, says. "We took special electric plugs, but there was no electricity."

The two friends, who graduated from Ben Franklin High School last year, got a different kind of education when they spent part of their last two summer vacations at the Nansana School in south central Uganda.

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