Kagitumba
Friday: today's trip was right to the northern border of Rwanda... and home in time for tea.

James picked me up at 7.30 and we stopped off at Kabuga where he is planning to build a hostel for secondary school girls. He's also started building a bio-digester there. At Kayonza we met with 3 AIC pastors. None has any training but the Kenyan church visits to encourage them from time to time. Their leader has been accused of involvement in the genocide and this has become a real problem for all of them, not to mention his wife with 7 children to care for (4 of their own plus 3). We discuss the orphans I visited last year and (hopefully) convince the pastors that the way ahead is to invite the government to take over the orphan schools; that way, the schools will be for everyone, the orphans more integrated and the teachers will be paid.

At Kagitumba the school is coming along nicely. James has also been working with the community on encouraging kitchen gardens - a mound of earth with kitchen waste in the middle that takes up very little space and should be really productive.