Monday 12th November 2007

  

  

A few thumbnails of the new children taken today, three days after they arrived at Akanyijuka.  It is so exciting to see how quickly they are settling in.  I keep pestering Kathryn about going down because I want to see all the children, I can’t stop thinking about how things must seem to them.  Some living with only their grandparents that struggle to provide enough food for them to eat, working with them to help survive, and now they have friends and do not have to work all day to get food to eat.  We took the children to get tested for AIDS and they all came back negative, which is always a relief.

In the morning we went to the drop-in centre, which was good to spend time with the boys there.  Today was especially good as Pastor Edward shares with them about sin and righteousness and then for the first time we went through and prayed for each child individually.  It was good as when we finished praying for one, another would quickly rush to take their place so we could pray for them.  It was exciting for me especially when one particularly loud boy, who is a bit of a local gang leader, rushed into me to get prayed for.  I have seen him a lot, but never actually got to speak to him before and always thought that he might not really like me.  It just shows the influence that we have without even realising.