Thursday 10th November
The last couple of days we have spent much of the time out
with John Murabyo who is one of the diocesan evangelists
Yesterday we visited the school at Bwera where we have been
before and the children acted out Daniel in the Lion’s den. We were certainly
made very welcome.
Eagerly awaiting Daniel in the lions den!
One of the schools makeshift classrooms
We also visited a woman whose husband had died just a month
ago He was a Muslim but his wife had become a Christian just over a year ago when
she was an inpatient at the hospital after delivery of her youngest child. It
could have proved a very sombre occasion but together with Jane and Richard
Gill who knew her well we were able to have a good time sharing together.
On the way there were many grasshopper traps in place. These are a local delicacy!
On the way from there we were able to call in at Bwera Hospital.
Outside Bwera hopspital with the "canteen" in the background!
I had visited the Microbiology lab there a year ago to collect their data on
antibiotic resistance. On the previous occasion it had been a rather laborious
job photographing their work books and later manually entering everything on an
excel spreadsheet but this time I was able to download their database onto a
memory stick. With nearly 450 specimen results this would have been an enormous
task to do manually so I was enormously grateful to be able to down load the information
in a matter of seconds! The data will prove extremely useful if guiding
antibiotic prescribing at Kagando in the years ahead. Bwera Hospital is built
on a hill with the most amazing views of Lake Edward and also into the Congo.
On the last 2 evenings we have found ourselves roped into a
local Crusade organised by one of the churches in a nearby village. Ann has
done an excellent job teaching the children while I have rather unexpectedly
found myself as a visiting speaker on the makeshift podium. It certainly moves
a great deal when the choir is performing so I’m grateful it hasn’t collapsed
during proceedings.
Waiting for the Crusade to start
The choir warming up
The rather unstable looking podium with John speaking
Ann doing the story of Jesus calming the storm
The children thoroughly enjoying themselves
To be honest I really like how they are doing great work in order to educate little children and I am so proud to see that many people still helping children to grow.
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