You wait for 10 days to catch a mouse, and then......

 It was Malcolm’s turn for a bit of adventure this week. Someone had to drive 50 miles to Kabale to pick up 6 gas bottles, and it was his turn.

Although most of the main road has now been tarmacced, there is still a section of about 50 miles still being built. This basically means the contractors, in order to widen the previous track to 2 lanes, have to demolish part of the mountain to the side of the road. Here normal traffic is not separated from the construction vehicles, and Malcolm had to weave around large diggers and earth moving vehicles as they carried out their work. At one point, 100 foot above the road and almost above his head, a large digger was busy pushing sections of the mountainside down onto the road, to be cleared by other diggers and lorries as he waited to pass. You don’t have so much excitement as that on the M25!!!!!

He has also been recording some video and taking photos of children at Potter’s Village Crisis Centre for children for Jenny to use when she returns to the UK for 3 months in June.



Irene has been helping some women who have been given sewing machines donated by Tools with a Mission. This week it was to show one lady, who is fortunate to have electricity at her house, how to use an electric machine.



She was not the only visitor to Kisoro. On the outskirts of the town is a site used by the UN as a transit camp for refugees. In the past it has been used by those escaping the genocide in Rwanda and fighting in the Congo as we are only about 5 miles from both borders. Since last November a growing number of Congolese have been fleeing to Uganda following Presidential elections last year. They stop for a while in Kisoro before moving on to more permanent camps inland.

And as for the mice, we have moved on 2 more unwelcome visitors, both caught in the same night. 3 weeks ago we mentioned the first ‘eviction’ and expressed concern that there may be more. At least now there are 2 less.