Penny felt privileged when she was told that Workaid wanted to name a container in her honour. As a Workaid volunteer for nine years, Penny made a significant contribution deserving of recognition. She chose to name the container after her younger son, Peter, and the month they spent in Uganda together in 1996.

Penny speaks fondly of her son and his friend Zanna. Zanna’s grandparents were supporting a very poor island community in Kibale National Park in Uganda, which prompted Peter and Zanna to make their own contribution. In 1995 Peter and Zanna flew out to Uganda. They purchased a Jeep and drove west to a poverty-stricken but beautiful part of Uganda where they found an island surrounded by the deepest crater lake in Africa also known as Lake Bunyonyi.

They were there for a year to provide some teaching support and to try and connect the school with their school in Oxford. They soon realized how poor the children were, when they noticed they owned no shoes. One of the locals informed them that the first thing a child had to learn was how to build their own dugout canoe in order to get to the mainland. Additionally, part of the children’s school curriculum was to make bricks in order to build their own classrooms.