Friday 25th January 2008

Today was a busy day for all.  Most of us spent the morning at the drop-in centre spending time with the boys.  Some good news on that front is that my previous post appealing for financial support to put some of them into school resulted in two people offering to send finances to put two of them into school for this year.  I have gotten the Wards straight onto getting them into a good school and arrange for everything else that is required.   Thank you very much to the two people who sent money, here are the two boys you have helped: 

Hannington  

Gregory (locally pronounced gilligie) 

Meanwhile Quinton took the new intakes at Akanyijuka to the Aids clinic to have them tested.  When we picked up the children yesterday we discovered that one child, Catherine Dorcus, was HIV positive. Today we unfortunately also discovered that another, Kobusheshe Akanyijuka, also is HIV positive.  They are both in different families at Akanyijuka, but are with our two most experienced Matrons.  This does not mean anything bad for Akanyijuka, only good, that we can help those most in need, providing the best for those that need it most. 

In the afternoon Phil headed out to see a boy on the border of Rwanda to see if he met the criteria to fill our last spot, at this point it looks like he does not, as we wanted to give it to someone who really needed it.  While Phil was out the girls had headed to the local markets to buy new clothes for yesterday’s new intakes and I met with Pastor Edward at Akanyijuka to show some visitors that he knows, around.