Wednesday 25th February 2009

Today I headed down expecting a battle.   The local electrical supply company had connected electricity when we started, but still have not managed to get us onto the system yet so that we start receiving bills.  We had been paying monthly installments so as to prevent an astronomical bill when they get their account together.  Late yesterday, around 6:30 pm they had come to Akanyijuka to disconnect the electricity, but Pamellah had managed to fend them off and they said to show up tomorrow with 600,000/= (Ugandan Shillings) or they will disconnect us.  I arrived to talk about it and things went surprisingly well, they said they will get onto it and we will get a bill in March, and that we will definitely not be disconnected.  It almost seemed too easy, just hope they don’t change their mind or something.

I was going to go and share with the boys at the drop-in this morning but when I got there I was a bit late and someone else was sharing something with them, so I took a few photos anyway.

Henry:

Kaleb:

Patrick:

Alex:

Myumba, aka House:

Here are some of the workers/volunteers, Lawrence:

Shaban:

Patrick:

It was great to see Pam and Kathryn getting in and doing their bit too:

Then in the afternoon after a chicken egg run - we went to collect the eggs from Akanyijuka land and bring them to town for sale, we headed to Akanyijuka for some birthday cake.  Today was Patience’s day and she was happy about it: