Liwolo Clinic is OPEN!
So the rains have started in Kajo Kaji
Hello everyone reading the blog – now it will be me caroline writing as I am the only one left in KK! The team left at 7.00am and peace descended on the house just Bishop A and Cheryl for breakfast and myself.
I had arranged for Fred Taban to come and talk with me – so we had 2 hours together with a wide ranging conversation on all the projects, his family, his return to the UK and his families shortage of food due to a drought.
He explained that yesterday, the crazy day to us Brits, in Liwolo was actually all planned by God and went according to purpose. Apparently it went out on the KK county radio about the opening of the clinic and that just after the opening God had sent a massive amount of rain and this was a sign of his blessing on the project. They have had no rain for 2 months and are desperate as they have NO other way of acquiring food than growing it themselves – no one has any money and no one can get out of the place so they are stuck
They tell me that on Sunday Joseph and I will tell the whole story of the clinic in church and then they will record it and put it out on the radio and write up the story.
Fred Taban then rushed off to interview 2 more staff for the clinic and Joseph appeared after seeing the team off. I suggested we try to make a plan for the week – this can challenge an African as they never like to think ahead but we are working on this
Following a nice lunch with the Bishop and a Pentecostal pastor it was time to take up my usual residence in the IT room with my great friend Fred Mazina. I was hoping to Skype with Send a Cow (an arranged call), this took 45 minutes even with the internet turned off to every one except myself and the Bishop.
Then Send A Cow (SAC) were having lunch so an hour later we got through When we did finally manage to speak we had a good discussion with Sheila Taylor their Agricultural adviser in Uganda and Fiona French from the UK office on how the 7 from the Cress team might go and spend 10 days in northern Uganda to learn in more detail how to teach farming and social development. This is very good of SAC to allow us to have this access and we hope it will happen in November
Following this it was then 1hour 45 minutes trying to send money to Fred in Arua to feed his family – this failed! So as you can see it is back to reality i.e. a lot of time to do very little sometimes.
Caroline Lamb
