It was cool to take in the scenery. If you land and have to go straight to a project, it sometimes feels like you don’t have time to adjust. It’s been good to get to know the country a little. The drive was very different from anything you'd see in the UK. You don’t see cows when you’re going up the M1.

At night, we arrived at the hotel and the Liverpool-Arsenal Cup tie was on. The Premiership is massive here in Uganda. There were Michael Owen T shirts and Arsenal headscarves, but nothing on my team, Spurs.

I spoke to Joyce from YWAM. Joyce is amazing and so well-informed. She’s information city! She told me how YWAM helps people with HIV. [You can click here to find out about HIV.]  Education in the community is very poor, and people don't know what HIV is, or about its causes and effects. So the info YWAM gives people is really important.

I visited a school in Soroti to see their Anti-AIDS club. The singing was great, the hymns were great. Seeing them trying in every way to see if they could help people understand about HIV and the importance of peace was really touching.

It was cool to see a bit of culture. And it was nice to dance with them. I was tired after doing four minutes but they did a whole performance two or three times – I admire their strength.

I liked all the outfits too. A lot of them had on Arsenal shorts and Liverpool shorts which was disappointing for a Tottenham fan like me.

I met a girl whose sister was stolen away from her family in 1997. She can’t give up hoping she'll come back, even though she can’t do anything about it. People have been through so much because of war, and it's easy for them to start hating one another. So it's great that TEDDO and other organisations are helping people to ask questions and understand why things have happened, so that they can learn to live peacefully together.

This afternoon, I saw a CPA project in the camps. They were singing and dancing. The first drama was about attacks on people. The second drama was about how people are treated when they've been forced to fight and then return home. People say ‘stop bullying’ at school, but what these ex-soldiers experience is a form of much more painful bullying.

When I left, the kids all gathered around me. I was photographed and filmed running back to my van with them around me. 

I've heard their stories and leaving somewhere reminds me how fortunate I am and how permanent their situation is. I go back to my house and they go back and fight their battle. Leaving reminds me how real it is for them.