Nothing too special, just more building. I took Ben and Esther out to see the building progress, planning to stay for like half an hour or so, we ended up being there almost the whole afternoon. We continued with the foundation works on the second duplex, though we had lots of stoppages due to rain:
Last night we went out for dinner to celebrate Ben Ward’s birthday and then went back to the Ward household for cake(thanks again to Kathryn) to celebrate his & Esther Lawson’s engagement:
And instead of photos of children, I thought I’d put up some of the mothers and one extra:
As promised here are some progress photos from October, up to Wednesday 21st, when we cast the concrete on the bottom of the foundation of Duplex 2.
Duplex No. 1 being roofed:
The site above Duplex No. 1 where we will put Duplexes 2 & 3:
Foundation works for Duplex No.2 (notice on the right, Pastor Johnson Agaba, our volunteer storeman!!):
Birthday time again, today was Brian Bob’s turn - no more until next month now (Kathryn is pleased about the little break from cake baking).
Some more children photos, sometimes happy. . .
Sometimes not . . .
Where are we and what have we been doing? Yes we are still here, but we have been busy with a few different things. Unfortunately there were a couple of children who got sick and were in hospital, but all things are fine now. Just another one of the things to get you frustrated here. One girl, Dorcus was a little sick so we took her to a private, but small hospital for a check up to see what was wrong. They could not find out what was wrong, but said we should take her for a C4 test at the HIV clinic at the main Kabale hospital. The problem was that it was late Friday afternoon which meant that we had to wait until Monday morning to take her becasue it’s closed on weekends. By Monday she had deteriorated a lot and when she was finally admitted, the doctors were thinking she would not survive, but with many people praying for her and a drip to get some nutrients and other things into her she soon recovered and was discharged on the Friday morning. By the following Monday she was back at school and as cheeky as ever.
The building at the land has been going full steam ahead, we started the second house while work on the first is still going. For the next two months rain is due to fall a lot so we are going ahead with the second house so that we can work when it is dry enough, but when it rains we will come back to the first because things we can do are inside and the first house is now roofed. I will post some progress photos soon, but I think some photos of the children are long overdue. The beginning of October saw two birthdays, Christine:
And Ronus:
Then here are some random photos I took on the day of celebrations:
Sorry again for the lack of posts. October 3rd saw Ruth, Kathryn’s sister fly out. Ruth came to visit for two weeks and even though we were still busy with other things it was like a holiday having her here. Just to have someone close visit was great – it’s a pity she could only be with us for two weeks. Thanks so much for the visit Ruth – we owe you a visit in Brisbane now – maybe next year hey!!! It was fantastic having you here.
Needless to say I am finally trying to catch up with many things that are well overdue, financial records etc – and of course posts on this blog.
