Wednesday 28 June

At Nanana today.....
The WaterAid engineers have started to install the water harvesting system - drainpipes & a storage tank to the uninitiated! The engineer came and we all signed the contract for the work with me parting with the money to allow them to go and order cement and concrete to build the tank. By lunchtime the foundations were dug ready for the constuction. By the time i leave it will be nearly done.
Great excitement - Eggs for lunch.
Their chickens have now started laying and in a packed room with the head, the director of the school, the water engineer, teachers, Topi and goodness knows how I was required to make an edict about how they would be used!! They had stored up 750 eggs ready for my coming so that i coudl tell them what to do - for goodness sake! So i said - lets have them for lunch, hence the excitment everybody had hard boiled eggs with their posho and beans and the teachers are to take some home for their families. then they will start selling. With 300 birds laying they may get over 240 eggs per day which represents 20 trays at 3,000 shilings per tray. That is equivalent to an income of 20 pounds per day and when their teachers earn aroudn 50 pounds per month will go a long way to helpig them be self sufficient.
Primary 7 are writing to the queen - she is coming to the Heads of Commonwealth govenments meeting here in November so I have promised to bring their letters to send to her. They wanted to know if she would reply, come to their school, read their letters adn where she lived. I ended up taking a lesson on the royal family!
All great fun - it was a really good day.
Also went to the British embassy to collect letter about the Trust becoming an Non Governmental Organisation.. whihc is the main reason for my trip!