Cows, chickens and computers

My time in the last two weeks has been completely filled. In retrospect its hard to describe exactly what i have done but a quick summary would cover inspecting all the projects The Kabanda Trust has funded. this has involved spending a lot of time (!!!!) going over the intracies of each with both Charles the headteacher at Nanasana and Pastor Steven at Rock of Joy school run by his church. We have also started to do some forward planning and thinking rather than facing issues as they rise, hopefully this will enable us to be more organised in the future. Our discusssions have ranged from the purchase of cows and milk production (Fliss the cow who my neice funded last year by raising money at her school in gloucester and now has calf named Bell and is producing vast amounts of milk) and Ann who TKT funded earlier this year. On Tuesday we are going to buy the next cow to be housed in the impressive shed mentioned earlier......

My knowledge and expertise on broilers (chickens you feed up to sell to eat) versus layers (lay eggs .... obviously) is now second to none and the purchase of a computer for one of the schools is proving quite a challenge! They have a bench with 6 computers lined up on it which all look as though they came out of the ark. Only 1 of them is functional and as no-one in the school knows how to use it, it just sits with the others literally gathering dust. the teachers very enthusiatically explained to me how these computers could be used to teach the children to type !!! no comment........ anyway, we have just arranged for two teachers to take a computer course so that they can in turn,w ith the help of Topi our administrator here who is a computer wizz, teach the other teachers and then we have planned a programe of teaching which will introduce the children to a computer whihc actually works.... PRAISE GOD!

At the weekend we ventured to jinjja for a two day break where Gordon joined us. He and Ems then risked life and limb whitewater rafting - it was definitely a once in a life time experiance for me. The others and i went and watched at Bugugali falls a grade 4 rapid and i remembered why i was never doing it again. Although i do have to admit to an adrenalin rush as i watched my nearesst and dearest enjoying the thrill..........