Kwa heri and goodbye!

Hello! I’m writing this with a heavy heart, as we heard on Monday that the sister of one of our TNZ team members died. It was a terrible shock for him and, as he left for Dar on Tuesday morning, we all said goodbye to him on Monday evening, which was horrible. All our thoughts and sympathy are with him and his family. We’ll miss him so much over these next few days and, of course, once we go home.

Today was our community farewell which, apart from the sad news, was a lovely afternoon. The awesome community farewell team organised a really nice, reflective and fun few hours with our host families and other community members that have been important to us during our stay here. We had the classic slide show of photos, alongside presentations on the different aspects of the programme, a role play of our time in Karagwe, a ‘string of memories’ and, of course, soda, mandazi and groundnuts. Oh yes, and some dancing to Waka Waka (Time For Africa) at the end.

None of us can believe that we’re leaving so soon. 5.30 on Thursday morning is looming far too near. The first month of our time felt, as I’ve said, like the longest ever, but the last couple of months really have flown by. As Flo said today, ‘I’m not done yet!’ It does feel like 3 months isn’t enough – I just feel like we’ve settled in and know our way around Karagwe and now we’re leaving.

At the same time, I’m so pleased with what we’ve achieved while we’ve been here; especially with CADs. Last week it was the anniversary of the first International Women’s Day (I.W.D. is on the 8^th March) and we marked it with a chai afternoon at a local hotel, where we enjoyed some debate on gender issues, a presentation on FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) and more general discussion, led by WOMEDA (Women’s and Men’s Development Agency), a local NGO. We didn’t have time to do everything on our agenda, partly due to us not being able to start until an hour after we’d agreed because of African time, but mostly due to how involved people were in the debate and discussion, which was awesome! We hadn’t anticipated so much involvement of everyone; we just sat back and listened to the Swahili keep flowing.

Another project we’ve had is renovating a classroom at Rumanyika Primary, a local – er – primary school in Kayanga, which was also some volunteers’ placement school. It was completely out of use, because it was in a pretty sorry state, with what can only be called pot holes all over the ‘floor’, no windows and a big crack in the wall. Two of the Hannahs in our team spotted it one day and had the idea to try and sort it out so it could be used as an activity room, or a classroom for extra-curricular activities – maybe even for the facilitation of sessions on sexual reproductive health. We decided the floor was at the top of the list of things to do, so we set to getting cement. Very kindly, the mayor donated a bag of cement and a couple of bags of sand to the cause, which got us off to a good start. We all helped carting said materials and water to the classroom from SAWAKA one hot Friday afternoon after team meeting and got to work. The TNZ volunteers quickly proved to be the most competent and capable in the job and were awesome in their work. Once the sweeping and shifting of gravel (first out of the holes in the floor, then back in – there was quite a lot of controversy as to which was best) was done, us mzungus didn’t seem to really have any more to do. Our TNZ counterparts were amazing and worked way past curfew (oops) to finish the floor, which now looks so much better. Although this project sounds like a cliché gap yah activity, the fact that the classroom is now being used by the older students as a study/social area is proof that it was a worthwhile use of our time.

Aside from CADs, we’ve also had some pretty memorable socials, most notably of which was on Sunday 2^nd February. We all piled into a dala-dala belonging to Flo and Walter’s baba and set off to Bweranyenge, a beautiful corner of Karagwe bordering Rwanda. After seeing a site where baba’s tribe used to hang out, eating maize at baba’s brother’s house and experiencing the spirit of the chief in a hut in the garden, we headed to the crème de la crème of views at the border.

We’d heard that the views were stunning, but we weren’t prepared for how beautiful they’d be. There were plenty of rocks for us to run/jump/sit on, too, so we were more than happy. It was such a nice day for us all to be together on the last weekend to relax, chat and enjoy les paysages. The time to leave came far too soon!

A few of us have been to watch the sunrise over the Kagera river valley this morning, and we’re just waiting for breakfast at Hannah Nick’s house before our first day of debrief. We saw chapattis being rolled out, which is very exciting.

So, this will be my last blog in Karagwe! Crazy stuff. It’s going to feel like such a shame to say goodbye; it’s such a beautiful part of the world and we’ve been made to feel so at home. I’m SO excited to see everyone at home, but at the same time the thought of never coming back here is so sad. I’ll just have to come back!

Kwa heri!

Birthday Antics etc

Hello again! Crikey, we’ve only got 2 and a half weeks left. Let’s not think about that.

Our latest news is our last CAD, which was a very successful ‘Leader Engagement Meeting’. Each placement group invited as many community leaders from the communities in which they work as they could to SAWAKA on Saturday 18^th for a meeting with all of us volunteers and our supervisors. Our aim was to give out as much information as we could about our objectives here, how we’ve been working and how the next cycles will work, as well as giving plenty of opportunity for feedback and suggestions on how we could improve what we’re doing. It was a really positive afternoon and we were given plenty of feedback and advice for our last few weeks. A common piece of advice was to prepare the schools and communities more for our arrival. As we are the first cycle of volunteers, we had to introduce the whole VSO – ICS/SAWAKA/Million Hours Fund to our communities. Personally, I feel quite proud of the fact that we’re the first representatives of the programme and we have, I think we’d all agree, made an awesome impression… Good luck next cycle!?!

The sodas and various treats from the market went down a treat at the meeting but, unfortunately, the only food that was left over for us to eat was the pre-meeting coffee beans that no one likes.

In other news – it was my birthday on Friday! Yay! It was a day of very mixed emotions. It started with stress, as it was my group’s GCD and tension was high as we were running late and full taxi after full taxi to Kayanga beeped past us. Next was nervousness, as our awesome fellow volunteers who’d all delivered amazing GCDs before us filed in for the session. It actually went really well, so relief and enjoyment ensued.

Unfortunately my Baba’s cousin died at the beginning of last week, so his funeral was on Friday. Jackie and I left our GCD in the more than capable hands of Helen and Bonavitha and went to the funeral. It was an amazing sight; there were hundreds and hundreds of people there, all the women in kangas and, as the service was held in his garden, everyone was gathered wherever there was space. It was difficult to see if you were at the edges of the crowd, so most people were chatting quietly, napping on the grass or wandering around the peripheries. We ate some delicious pilau rice under the banana trees about half way through the service then rejoined the congregation for the burial. That was when sadness joined the list of emotions! We were told that Baba’s cousin had dug his own grave a few months earlier, which is interesting! Apparently that’s the kind of man he was. Unfortunately we had to leave as they were throwing confetti into the grave, so we didn’t see the conclusion of the service, but I’m so glad I saw what I saw.

I was feeling pretty low after that, but as soon as I rejoined the rest of the legends that are my fellow volunteers I was cheered up no end. I walked into the bar to them singing Happy Birthday and then was presented with two BEAUTIFUL kangas and an awesome card signed by everyone. It’s SO exciting to have kangas now; I can’t wait to get one of them tailored into a skirt and to wrap the rest around me like an African mama. Felix, one of our German mates, also gave me a wicked assortment of bizarre presents, including a toothbrush head, a M23 Congo Rebel Group calendar and an X Ray of his tooth. Highlight! So, my birthday concluded with us all in excellent spirits.

My party was on Sunday! My baba very kindly offered us his hotel/bar as a venue, so all the volunteers, our supervisors and our German mates convened at Africana Safari Lodge for drinks, food, chats and general fun times. It was such a nice afternoon/evening. The Hannahs and Helen made me a lemon drizzle cake, too, which was AWESOME! I feel seriously lucky and greedy to have had a 3 day birthday celebration, but it’s been great. It’s taken the edge of the fact that I’m now 19, which is the worst age ever.

My birthday’s all over now, so now we have to concentrate on making the next couple of weeks’ teaching as productive as possible and leaving as much information and advice for the next cycle of volunteers as we can. I hope I can blog again before we leave! Until then, baadae!

Hang on... Half way through?!

Hello!

 So this will be a bit of a reflective blog, seeing as we’re over half way through now! It was half time on Friday 27^th.

It’s crazy that we’re half way through; it really doesn’t feel like we’ve been here for 6 weeks.  I feel completely settled now (as expected), after an up and down first 3 or 4 weeks!  We’ve all agreed that life in England will be the odd experience, whereas our African life will feel normal. It’ll be so strange to see pavements and cars with only 2 people in and traffic lights and coffee shops… But that’s not for another 6 weeks.

We had our supervisions with our P.S.’s on Monday, so we’ve all been reflecting on our progress so far, as well as setting new objectives and goals to work towards over the next 6 weeks. Personally, I feel like I’ve really got a lot more self-conviction and that I’ve become a lot more open with feelings and opinions. It’d be impossible to do this programme, I think, without being able to share with other people what’s going through your head, whether it’s coping with home sickness, frustration with your placement or just simply missing cheese. Equally, the best thing ever is sharing an awesome session you’ve had, a beautiful view you’ve found or the location of a shop that sells cheese with your team. I apologise in advance to my family and friends in the UK; when I get home you’ll never hear the end of my emotions. Soz!

Jackie (my counterpart) and me after 6 weeks. I've gone blue and J's really tired. (Philly - a UK volunteer - painted faces at the Christmas party)

I kind of wish I’d done a ‘Me Before’ profile, so I could compare it with a ‘Me After’ profile and see how I’ve changed over the programme. I’ve certainly got a bigger bum from the mountains of carbohydrate-heavy food, slightly browner forearms and blonder hair, but I think I have changed in ways that aren’t visible, too. I definitely feel like I’ve matured in some ways (some might disagree!), but it’s difficult to pinpoint specifically how.

So, what do the next 6 weeks hold? Nyakahanga Secondary School is going back to school next week, so they’ll be a new placement for us, which is exciting! We’ve also managed to buy a volleyball, so we’re going to set up a volleyball club in Omurushaka for young people. Volleyball was chosen because it’s a pretty unisex sport – it’s easy to find a group of boys playing football in any town, but girls are hardly ever seen participating in sport for leisure. Also, we can play it and we’re a bit bored of football. We’ve found that most of our sessions with community members are very male-heavy, so our aim is to try and get lots of girls involved, so they benefit from the sexual reproductive health information we’re providing as much as boys. By using sport, we can engage young people in our sessions more easily so they can receive the information we want to pass on without feeling like they’re being taught/preached at. It also, obviously, encourages team work, keeps people fit and is fun fun fun!  We’re hoping to run weekly sessions in the evening, which will make the club easy to be continued by the next cycle of volunteers and easy to be run by some youth from the community.

The next 6 weeks also includes my 19^th (ew) birthday, for which my baba is planning a huge celebration. Woohoo! He likes a good dance, so it should be a good shindig. I can’t wait!

Kayanga and Omurushaka Football Teams

On Sunday we had another Community Action Day (CAD), which was great. It was the Karagwe region football final between Kayanga and Omurushaka and Kayanga’s coach asked us to run some games about HIV and AIDS with the teams before the match. We all turned up in our VSO ICS t-shirts and ran simple sessions with small groups of players as a little warm up. They addressed issues like the effects of HIV and how it progresses to AIDS[1] and the fact that you can’t tell if someone is HIV positive without asking them, or without them getting tested[2]. Once the game had started we handed out information leaflets about HIV and AIDS and about the work we’re doing with VSO ICS. There was a really positive reaction and it’s always good to show our faces and our t-shirts as a team!

Fox!

In other news, we have a new PUPPY at our house! I came home from Kayanga on Saturday night to find a big eared, long-legged little heap of sweetness in our courtyard. He’s called Fox, he’s about 4 months old and I LOVE HIM. It’s so exciting. He’s still in the howling at night phase, though, which hopefully won’t last too long. My family have named me Mama Fox now, because I cuddle him, which is apparently quite unusual for pets in TNZ! I’m more than happy with that name.

Sorry this has been a bit rambling. I’m listening to Dire Straits – Ride Across The River and it’s distracting my thoughts. Hope you’re all well; will update soon!

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[1] A penalty shoot-out, where there are 3 or 4 goal keepers at the beginning. The ball represents opportunistic infections (O.I.s), the goal represents the body and the keepers represent the immune system. As the game continues, a keeper is removed every so often, so more O.I.s enter the body, until there are no keepers left, which represents the immune system depleting because of HIV and the progression to AIDS.

[2] A really simple game involving two lines of players facing each other and two balls. The lines of players close their eyes, while the person running the game places a ball in one of the player’s from each line’s hands. Each team has 3 guesses to work out who’s holding the ball. It’s surprisingly difficult, so reinforces how important it is to discuss HIV and other STIs with sexual partners.

A lovely sunrise above the banana plantation.

When a tomato fits perfectly inside a tomato, it's the best thing ever.

The Night Before Christmas

Mambo?![1] So, it’s Christmas Eve as I’m writing this! We’re having a Christmas party at SAWAKA today: Elf, food, Christmas songs, decorations, socks; merry-making… We’re all really excited, but at the same time it just feels like we’re pretending it’s Christmas because it’s 30®C, we’re surrounded by banana trees instead of pine trees and there isn’t a Father Christmas in sight. I’m sure watching Elf will ignite the Christmas spirit, though.

The School In Irundu

So, seeing as all of the schools we’re working in have broken up for Christmas now, we’ve been concentrating on community members. Last week we ran a session in a village called Irundu, which is my favourite venue of them all. It’s a nursery school, which consists of one classroom on the side of a mountain. Looking out of the shuttered windows, all you can see are green slopes and the sky. It’s awesome!

 Our first session there went really well; there were lots of young people there, with a broad age range of 14 to 30, and they were really engaged and asked lots of questions. Bonnavitha, a TNZ volunteer in our team, made a good impression on the group, her number having been requested many times since. We went back yesterday for our second session on STIs and it was disappointing, unfortunately. Four community members returned, out of the previous group of about 15, and two of these didn't arrive until about 2 hours after our session was supposed to start! However, we did have a good session with them. It taught our Peer Educators a lot, as well as the community members, and we were able to hand out 20 of the 200 condoms Philly and I bagged from the hospital. Yay!

Getting community members to return is a big issue we have to address. Perhaps naively (?!) we believe everyone enjoys our sessions – ‘stay for longer!’; ‘can you come back tomorrow?’ – so we think it must be forgetfulness and people being occupied that are preventing our second  sessions from being as wicked as the first. We’ve all agreed we need to repeatedly remind the community chairmen to gather their youth for our follow-up sessions, as they’re the ones with influence and the contacts.

On Wednesday we had a surprisingly wicked day, which has become the highlight of the programme so far for Philly, Bonnavitha and me. We had session no.2 for the Nyakahanga community members and, again, the turnout was pretty disappointing (3…). BUT, one of the older community members, who’s a student at Nyakahanga hospital, taught us about Syphilis. We then taught him back, sharing all the extra detail we’d learnt in our training, resulting in a mega detailed session on Syphilis! THEN, we taught two sisters, 13 and 14, about puberty. We started, expecting them to tell us lots, but it soon transpired that they knew nothing about puberty. It’s amazing that these girls can get to this age, where puberty is usually in full swing, without knowing about the changes taking place in their bodies. It was great to see them stopping to write extra notes down on their walk home after our session. Super rewarding!

I’m going to join in the festivities at SAWAKA now. There are lots of paper chains to be made! Have a lovely Christmas everyone; I’ll write again sooooon!

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[1] N.B. - This is a difficult thing with Swahili greetings – they’re all questions, so all require a response and are all really difficult to write excitedly without coming across as really impatient/bewildered.

An awesome sunset over Omurushaka taxi rank

Teeth and Steve

Hello! So, our placements are in full swing. Most of the schools are closing this week for Christmas, which originally we saw as a hindrance, but the head teachers have kindly let us use classrooms over the next few weeks to teach both children from the school and other community members.

On Thursday we had our first session with community members – that is to say, young people from Nyakahanga who aren’t primary school children. We’d arranged the session with a Nyakahanga chairman and the head teacher of the primary school to let us use a classroom, and we arrived early to start our session at 10 am. People started to trickle in at around 10.30 so we could eventually begin at 11. Relaxed is not the word!!!

It was an especially productive session; partly due to the older ages of attendees – 13 to 20 – and partly due to the smaller group size. We could play the ‘SRH Teeth Game’, which sounds terrible, but is wicked. ‘Teeth’ is a game in which the group stands in a circle and each player assigns themselves a name – Sexual Reproductive Health – related in this case. A player starts by calling another, e.g.: ‘condom, condom is calling gonorrhoea, gonorrhoea’, then ‘gonorrhoea, gonorrhoea is calling syphilis, syphilis’, etc etc. The game is that you have to cover your teeth with your lips while playing, and if you laugh or show your teeth, you’re out. It’s a silly energiser game, which gets everyone more comfortable talking about SRH and with each other.

We used role plays and group discussion to raise the group’s awareness of the most common STIs. Interestingly, in Tanzania this includes Trichonomiasis, which none of us UK volunteers had ever heard of before. We know about it now! Next week we’ll move on to HIV and AIDS and their prevention. The best part about today’s session happened afterwards: a boy who’d been at our session asked if he could lead a part of the session on HIV next week. Awesome! This is especially great because it directly addresses one of the aims of the SAWAKA/Million Hours Fund project, which we’re working for, which is to encourage volunteering among young people in our placement communities, including encouraging them to facilitate their own sessions. Yay!

This is a short one. I’m not really sure why; there are obviously so many interesting things I could write about. But, having been in Karagwe for 3 weeks now, a lot of things that would have been remarkable 2 and a half weeks ago are now unremarkable!

We’ve all acquired a new ‘friend’, though, who we’ve named Steve. He’s a roamer, I suppose, of Kayanga. He’s always outside the building we’re in – be it SAWAKA, a bar; another meeting venue – and follows us to our next destination, asking to come with us to Dar Es Salaam, apparently! He speaks in Kinyambo, the regional dialect, doesn’t seem to understand Swahili and definitely doesn’t speak English. He’s harmless, trotting along a few feet behind us with his sack of plastic, but he’s currently the main topic of conversation among our volunteer group!


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Kubawahey and Oohsaffee

So, we’ve started our placements! Nyakahanga Primary School was our first project and, inevitably, acted as our guinea pig. We’ve taught Standard 6 so far, which is one ‘year group’ including children from the ages of 11 to 14.

We arrived pretty apprehensively on Monday morning, unaware of how many pupils we’d be teaching and their ages, having learnt the previous week that this primary school has 1024 pupils! Luckily the teaching system is pretty relaxed (!) and half of the year was sent away, to return to our session the following day.

49 children crammed into the classroom to listen to us on Monday, while the number on Tuesday increased dramatically from 31 at the beginning of the session to around 50, after a Mingle[i] in the playground. The first group felt a lot smaller than 49, whereas the second group felt a lot larger than 50… It was really interesting that there could be such a difference in maturity and knowledge between the two Standard 6 forms. We left the first session full of positivity and improvements for Tuesday’s lesson, whereas Tuesday’s lesson left us pretty exhausted! The awesome thing was that despite us feeling exhausted, the pupils were really enthusiastic and keen to come back for another lesson next week, despite it being the Christmas holidays. Yes!

So what did we teach? With these being our first sessions and the school being a primary school, we started with an introduction to VSO-ICS and Sexual Reproductive Health, and focused on Puberty (Kubarehe – or ‘Kubawahey!) and Hygiene (Usafi – ‘oohsaffeeeeeee’). We’re now in possession of some hilarious/scary drawings of the changes that take place in girls and boys during puberty – the expressions and acne on the faces are particularly funny.

The biggest challenge for us UK volunteers as non-Swahili speakers is not knowing what’s being said in the lessons. As a group (two UK volunteers, our 2 Tanzanian counterparts and a Peer Educator) we devise pretty comprehensive lesson plans, but our brilliant and enthusiastic TNZ colleagues often steer away from points, which can lead to information being given too soon and our lessons overrunning. These are minor problems, but we discovered today that it can lead to incorrect information being given too. Today a child said, ‘if you’re healthy, you start puberty at 9. If you’re unhealthy and have a bad body, you might not start until 11’. Of course, this is absolutely wrong, but her answer was praised as correct in Swahili, which worried and surprised us. We were quick to explain to the class that everyone goes through puberty differently and didn’t judge her at all, but it concerned us that other incorrect things might have been said in Swahili that without us being aware.

The solutions are, of course:

1)      We learn Swahili;

2)      We thoroughly discuss and stick to lesson plans so all parties know what’s being said and when;

3)      We learn Swahili.

We won’t have become fluent in Swahili by our sessions next week, but we will definitely have made extra effort to revise and review and LEARN lesson plans as a team before we start teaching. This sounds like we don’t know what we’re doing when we walk in the classroom; we do, it’s just that our incompetence in Swahili means that we’re unaware of deviations from the plan when they do happen.

I have to stress that we are so, so happy with our counterparts and Peer Educator. Without them, we wouldn’t even have placements to go to and they’re incredibly good at teaching: the children are captivated by them and hang on to every word. Our Peer Educator, Godlove, bought a book on Human Biology before we started placement, so he is extremely knowledgeable on the subjects we were teaching. Bonnavita, one of the TNZ volunteers in our team has authority and gains instant respect from the children. During our first session a slightly disruptive crowd gathered outside the classroom window. Bonnavita simply closed her eyes, held out her hand and said a few words in Swahili and they scattered. Amazing! Jackie, my counterpart, bought sweets and is just super chilled.

On Wednesday we gained the primary school in Omurushaka as a placement; I can’t wait to start our sessions there and continue the work we’re doing!

(P.S. I know these photos are stereotypical, but they're stereotypical for a reason!)

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[i] ‘Mingle, mingle, mingle!’. Mingle’s an excellent energiser we learnt at training, which can also be a brilliant way to split people into groups. ‘Mingle, mingle, mingle!’ is sung while everyone dances around and mingles. The leader shouts, ‘threes!’, or ‘sevens!’, etc, and everyone has to form groups of threes or sevens etc. The process can be repeated as many times as you like, which is often. Fun! It proved surprisingly difficult for both groups to pick up. Everyone just danced holding hands, so we just ended up splitting groups manually and unintentionally inviting an extra 19 on-lookers from the playground into our lesson. This, of course, is great, apart from the fact that a lot of the children were meant to be in other lessons!

TWO WEEKS IN!

We’re here! Karagwe district is now beginning to feel like a place we can call home. Even though these last two weeks in Tanzania have felt like ‘the longest in my life’, as quoted by a few of the volunteers, I can see how the next weeks will fly by. Time can pass strangely among the banana trees.

So, we landed in Mwanza on Saturday after lots of changes and a total of 19 hours’ flying to find that 16 out of our 21 bags were still knocking around in Nairobi airport somewhere. We had noticed the sceptical looks on the Nairobi luggage handlers’ faces, looking from our mountain of luggage to the tiny space in the aeroplane’s hold, but remained (naively) optimistic.

Anyway, our pillar of positivity of a Programme Supervisor, Frank, met us and we arranged ourselves in a tiny minibus for the “probably 4 or 5 hour” journey to Bukoba. 9 hours later we arrived in Bukoba and met our counterpart team of national volunteers! Our emotions rode a rollercoaster from excitement to anticipation to impatience to terror as we approached the hotel, but a smiley ‘Karibu!’ settled our nerves.

Our 5 days of In Country Orientation training prepared us for the emotional transition of living in a different culture, taught us how to integrate into our host community and extended our repertoire of energisers, among other things. I think the most valuable aspect of the training was getting to know the other volunteers and therefore forming good relationships with each other, making the prospect of moving into a new community less daunting!

So, having arrived on Thursday, we still haven’t completed out In Community Orientation. We had the launch of the programme on Friday afternoon, which made us all really excited to start our work, after hearing the needs of our community from SAWAKA themselves. It was also a really good opportunity to meet our peer educators –in community volunteers – and the other staff at SAWAKA to find out how best to approach our placement.

Reproductive health education has occupied our last couple of days, so we now have a seriously detailed knowledge on STIs, their consequences and how to prevent them. Some points proved pretty controversial and highlighted surprising cultural differences in attitudes towards sex and sexuality. It was great to talk about those differences though; both parties learnt a lot!

We now all feel ready to start our placements, having met various community leaders and teachers, who have all been extremely positive about our objectives, saying that ignorance on reproductive health is a problem in Karagwe. My counterpart, Jackie, and I have been allocated Omurushaka, a busy market town, to tackle. We are also working with another counterpart pair in Nyakahanga to deliver sessions on Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) in schools and to youth groups in those communities.

After a meeting in Nyakahanga primary school this morning, we have arranged to facilitate a session with the older pupils of the school on Monday, which is very exciting! At the moment we’re slightly unsure as to how it will run, as there are about 500 ‘older pupils’, and only 5 of us. Bear with on that one…

We’ve also discovered that the church is the best way to introduce oneself to a community, so Jackie and I are going to church in Omurushaka this Sunday to make our faces and objectives known! The hope is that we’ll identify some youth groups to target, too, as there are no schools in Om.

I’m sorry this blog is so long and info-packed. So much changes in such a short space of time!  It’s World Aids Day on Sunday, so we are hoping to plan and run a Community Action Day (CAD), as it is completely relevant to our work here!

I’ll tell all in the next post.

Laters! Badai!