We are now back in Business. A few weeks ago we had an unfortunate experience. Some one broke into our apartment while we were sleeping and took our computers and cameras and money. We borrowed a computer and we are connected again.
Every Sunday we travel to Jinja to assist with the Walukuba Branch. It is about a 2 hr drive (80 km each way and meetings are 4 - 5 hours so it is a long day.
In keeping with our motto "It'll be fun" we sponsored a Branch Party as there was a real need to socialize and have some fun. We weren't able to feed 1000 with a loaf of bread but fed about 200 with 50 kg of rice, a mountain of matoke with ground nut sauce and beef cubes. The children and some adults ate with their hands out of plastic bags. Saves on washing cutlery and having bags of paper plates.
We played games with the kids and the adults watched.
The Primary Children entertained us by dancing African dances. Lots of shaking going on.
Cute Kids and beautiful people.
The Clean up Crew had a good time
We met two little girls on the way to church. They had just got new dresses and
were pleased with them.
A return mission, George, is attending secondary school that takes about two hours to walk to every day. He asked us if we could help him obtain a bike. We hired him to clean the chairs at the Church and he earned enough to buy this shiny bike. He is enjoying life now.
Ken has been fascinated by the diversity and beauty of the flowers in this area. There are many many different kinds of flowers that he has been taking pictures of. We can't go anywhere without stopping to take a picture of a flower.
Here is a small sample of some of them and will include pictures of the gorgeous flowers as we go.
There is so much beauty on this continent and so much to be grateful for especially when it is 20 below at home with snow and ice. If it gets down to 23 degrees C everyone wears heavy down filled coats and complain that it is freezing. We just laugh. They have no idea what cold is.
We are sad to be missing Christmas with our family but felt like we needed to extend to help out here. There is still work to do. It is not easy but we believe that what we are doing is important and hope that our contribution will make a difference.
