Thursday 31^st January

Stella striving to perfect brownies!!

Ann has been busy helping Stella, the person who will be cooking in the café once we can open, trying to perfect brownies while I spent the morning going through some things with pastor. He does seem to have mastered an excel spread sheet needed for recording all the financial transactions which is good! I then went out to Ekiwumulo again to spend some time discussing the tragic death of one of the children at the orphanage a couple of months ago. It seems he probably had hepatitis B which is a serious problem in Uganda and can often prove fatal. After discussion I did feel very reassured that the staff at Ekiwumulo had done all they could have done to look after him appropriately.

I took the opportunity to look at the land we are in the process of purchasing next to the current orphanage site. Much of it is currently eucalyptus forest but I don’t think sadly that my plan to develop a Koala sanctuary will ever take off! It certainly looks an exciting site to possibly develop for a secondary school in due course.

There is a 20 metre long access track from the main road to the new land

Koalas where are you?

This evening we have been out for a meal with an American couple who have been here for a number of years and know the work being done at Ekiwumulo well. They are the couple who originally were alerted about the terrible condition of a baby called David who has now been at the orphanage for a couple of years. He has HIV but is thriving well.