More Fun and Games

Last week we mentioned that the electricity poles in Kisoro are being replaced. This, and the almost daily power cuts continue. However, Potter’s Village Home for Vulnerable Children are making good use of the old ones.


Are they:

- cutting them to length for caber tossing at the local equivalent of the Highland Games?, or

- making shorter batons for the African relay team? , or

- cutting them for fence posts?


Not to be outdone the students and teachers (in blue tee shirts) of the Vocational Training Centre were relaxing during one of the power cuts with a friendly game of volley ball.

It was good news for the VTC this week. We have been expecting new computers ever since we arrived 2 years ago, and this week most of them were delivered. We can’t wait to get them out of their boxes – for education purposes, of course, not computer games!!!!




For the last 6 months a road building earth mover has been stranded. It had been borrowed in January to help dig the grave of the former Bishop. However it broke down and has been left outside the VTC building ever since.


This week a team of mechanics turned up and reinstalled the engine, repaired the tyres and got the machine going after several days work. They even managed to move it about 50 yards, where is broke down again across the cathedral road. See you again in 6 months time????





This week’s proverb isn’t from the BBC Africa web site, but is very meaningful for us:

“If you think you are too small to make a difference then you haven’t spent a night with a mosquito”