Greetings from Mityana

I have been going out visiting and teaching at a number of small churches and schools. Some of them are only about 15 miles out of town, but they are away from the main roads up terrible tracks, and quite a few of the children have never seen a white person before. The older ones are very interested and want to hold my hands and arms, but the little ones often scream when they see me! That’s a bit disconcerting!

I went to a little village today where they have benefitted a lot from one of our animal schemes. They were delighted to see me back again. Hundreds of people in a number f adjoining parishes have benefitted from the scheme, and they have also had profits to put into community projects. What a difference a few pigs can make!

They have managed to build a very primitive school with rough bricks and a tin roof since I was here last. However, they still have classes for three different years going on in one room, and the teacher just has to go from one year group to the next doing the best he can. The main problem for them is water. They have to carry jerry cans a distance from a dirty water hole in order to provide for the children. I will give priority to raising £600 or so for them so that we can get the school a water tank and they can harvest the rain water.