Blue Point woman builds school in Uganda
Photo credit: BULA | Melissa Fricke, center, president of BULA, Andrea Procopio, left, vice president, and Kate Procopio talk last year during construction of the foundation at the St. Kizito Primary School in the village of Gganda, Uganda.
When Blue Point resident Melissa Fricke was graduating from college, she called home one day to tell her parents what she planned to do next.
They were expecting graduate school. Instead, she told them, she was going to Uganda to work as a volunteer in an orphanage.
She was met with dead silence.
"That's a scary proposition," her father, Tom Fricke, recalled thinking, worried about...
