Just a quick update! Nat’s family have been here to visit
which has been great fun and lovely to meet them. One day we hired a truck to
show them around the different Go MAD projects and of course we went to Kyamajoje!
It was amazing to see the progress that had been made on the health centre. The
mural the team painted on the side of the health centre, of John 3:16 written
in the shape of a cross on a hill created by handprints, is beautiful and it
was great that a child i was holding pointed out her hand print! The current
team are now working on houses for the doctor and nurses to live in. We then
went on to see Mtani and his toilet and water tank. The toilet looks great and
the mural they painted on it is also beautiful. It was awesome to see Mtani so
happy! When we arrived he wasn’t at the
house but then we turned and saw him whizzing down to us in his bike which was
great. I then showed her family into his room. His bed was neatly made and in
the centre of it was his bible. I asked him if he has been reading his bible
everyday and he said yes and smiled. He is such a great guy. From the top of some rocks in Kyamajoje there
is the most spectacular view so we did what you would never dream of doing back
in the UK, we asked some barefoot children to take us up the rocks, with them
going ahead on the lookout for snakes!
We also visited Anifa and her family which is always fun. We
didn’t have a translator and i loved having to use the Swahili i know to
communicate with her. Obviously my Swahili is way off being amazing but i also
loved that i am so comfortable around these people now that it doesn’t matter
if we laugh at the mistakes made. We are patient with each other and
eventually, after rephrasing sentences with words i know and after some acting,
we figure out what we want to say!
Rehema has been shut for two weeks to give all the women a
well deserved and much needed break! It has been great to have a couple of
weeks to sleep, go to the beach and go and play with the children at the
orphanage! I also went out with Go Mad to start a water tank in Kyamajoje which
was good. Whilst Nat’s family were here
we went over to Lukuba Island. It is so beautiful there and a great place to
relax for a couple of days at the start of a two week holiday! It’s just 40
minutes away from Musoma but you just feel like you are in the middle of
nowhere which is amazing! Slightly less amazing was the snake that popped his
head out of the roof above our heads as we are eating breakfast! TIA!
There have been a few snakes around recently which is quite
unnerving. There was one in the workshop at rehema, one on the beach, two at Lukuba
and then the biggest was found on our compound. It was a forest cobra that was
over a metre long and that was found outside the house opposite and then chased
before being killed. It was fascinating to see it but has made me more
conscious of them!
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