Rwanda 19 November 06
Arrived here last Wednesday morning... relaxed trip and got the airport Java Coffee House coffee we missed on the last trip with Jeni. Good.
Karen was arriving at the airport as I reached the exit; she'd had a puncture but was still on time.
Wednesday afternoon we met with Henri from CEFORMI, the church's technical school. He offered us a covered area to experiment with rainwater tanks so we know what we're doing when we get to the village... seemed a bit cautious but...
Thursday Karen and I bought some cement and tools and I got to work at CEFORMI. Nice thing about Africa is that things usually work out. Everyone has problems with communicating (mainly poor web connections but its worse!!) and I hadn't even been sure I'd be met at the airport until Tuesday, never mind have support to make the project happen. But now we're underway and I seem to have a couple of Henri's tutors at my disposal. Good someone knows what they're doing!
Friday was a bit of a test of faith; we hadn't packed the sawdust well and we hadn't found good old fashioned jute sacks; cement doesn't stick so well to modern plastic. So tomorrow will be interesting. We need to find foolproof ways of constructing the tanks so we can train teenagers with no experience. Everything will work out!
Today's Sunday. Got to church so early (despite having to bump start the Land Rover) that we got Bible Class too. We have 4 Ugandans staying with us; they're from the Pentecostal Church in Kampala and are helping Christian Life Assemblies put on a play called "Heaven's Gate and Hell's Flames"... evangelism here is straight to the point! So most of our household is back at church this afternoon and I've found an internet connection at Hotel Gorilla down the road.
Tomorrow we'll build another tank or two and (hopefully) get them to work better. I've still to make contact with the Episcopal Church as Nathan tends to be busy. My contact person for the water programme is off work and I'm keen to involve his technician in the rainwater programme. Timothy has flip charts for malaria talks etc. and was quite excited about the project back in May.
Please pray we'll all stay sane and the project will start to run smoothly. Other problem is the rain... it tends to be really heavy which isn't good for cement. Please also remember the family back home; Jeni's having to sort out problems with my work and has plenty of more interesting stuff to keep her busy.
Arrived here last Wednesday morning... relaxed trip and got the airport Java Coffee House coffee we missed on the last trip with Jeni. Good.
Karen was arriving at the airport as I reached the exit; she'd had a puncture but was still on time.
Wednesday afternoon we met with Henri from CEFORMI, the church's technical school. He offered us a covered area to experiment with rainwater tanks so we know what we're doing when we get to the village... seemed a bit cautious but...
Thursday Karen and I bought some cement and tools and I got to work at CEFORMI. Nice thing about Africa is that things usually work out. Everyone has problems with communicating (mainly poor web connections but its worse!!) and I hadn't even been sure I'd be met at the airport until Tuesday, never mind have support to make the project happen. But now we're underway and I seem to have a couple of Henri's tutors at my disposal. Good someone knows what they're doing!
Friday was a bit of a test of faith; we hadn't packed the sawdust well and we hadn't found good old fashioned jute sacks; cement doesn't stick so well to modern plastic. So tomorrow will be interesting. We need to find foolproof ways of constructing the tanks so we can train teenagers with no experience. Everything will work out!
Today's Sunday. Got to church so early (despite having to bump start the Land Rover) that we got Bible Class too. We have 4 Ugandans staying with us; they're from the Pentecostal Church in Kampala and are helping Christian Life Assemblies put on a play called "Heaven's Gate and Hell's Flames"... evangelism here is straight to the point! So most of our household is back at church this afternoon and I've found an internet connection at Hotel Gorilla down the road.
Tomorrow we'll build another tank or two and (hopefully) get them to work better. I've still to make contact with the Episcopal Church as Nathan tends to be busy. My contact person for the water programme is off work and I'm keen to involve his technician in the rainwater programme. Timothy has flip charts for malaria talks etc. and was quite excited about the project back in May.
Please pray we'll all stay sane and the project will start to run smoothly. Other problem is the rain... it tends to be really heavy which isn't good for cement. Please also remember the family back home; Jeni's having to sort out problems with my work and has plenty of more interesting stuff to keep her busy.
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