Home again
Say my good-byes in Kigali on Thursday. Pizza lunch at the New Cactus then to CEFORMI to see Peter and Vianney. Everyone's enthusiastic about the pots but as everyone also has lots of other commitments they'll need to prioritize the project if it's to succeed.

I feel like I've spent the last month waiting for things to go wrong and they haven't. Someone must be praying for this project! The tank at Ruhanga is good and solid, the boys are enthusiastic about the work, we've arranged for Peter to travel up every day to assist them until they get the hang of it. Once they've made 60 (2 per house) they should be real experts!

Friday morning Karen and Doreen drop me at the airport and by 10.30pm I'm back home with the family.

At Ruhanga

After some initial organisational hitches we get training started with the 6 boys. We've decided to be practical from the start and after showing a small model we built last week take the boys out to start building. As rural people they have good practical skills, though one or two have not used a trowel before. Over the 7 days it is good to see skills develop. They are obviously enjoying the work. By the second Wednesday we have one tank almost complete, one tank onto its second coat of cement and a third foundation built.

The tanks are physically a size bigger than the one I built in Tanzania and it takes 14 bags of sawdust to fill one. The physical work of packing and removing that volume of sawdust is quite a time-sonsuming job.