We have had Malcolm Crawford back with us to audit the accounts. He and his wife used to work in Kisoro so it is good to have someone who understands some of the challenges With finances - like the lack of receipts.
Next Wednesday we have two student nurses from the UK arriving who are doing their nursing elective with us. They are the start of the Christmas build-up of visitors. On the basis of don't ask, don't get, I halfheartedly asked at the Supermarket if there was a possibility of a turkey at Christmas. Actually there could be, but it would come alive. I can just picture walking home from the shop with a turkey on a string walking behind! No, this is not an option.
These are our first two baby goats. Leonard reckons the next birth is due any day now. These girl twins will stay with us and we may sell two of our older goats. Leonard and I have been discussing whether we can introduce dairy goats as a concept in Kisoro. The problem would be monitoring that they don't keep breeding them with local goats and lose the dairy attribute. We could introduce them in our Community Support Income Generating Scheme. A thought for the future when we have more goats.
As this one posed so nicely, I thought she deserved to be added.
Last time I mentioned Gakuru, a rather ill premature twin. Here he is having graduated to a polystyrene box. He is still getting top-up milk through a tube but is doing very well. He will probably be discharged in a week.
Dushime is our latest addition to the village. She is three months old but very small. Her young mother died from what sounds like cancer. The family wanted to hand her over for good but we don't do that. Geoffrey visited the home and discovered they live in dire poverty without even an adequate roof to keep all the rain out. The maternal family home is not much better. Undoubtedly Dushime will be with us for some time until their circumstances can be improved. She is a real smiler.
Naomi came to us from the Congo. Her family had got caught up in the troubles and they had to leave their home. The father has now settled. We were worried because we lost contact. We managed to find someone to get a message to him and they came to collect her. When she first arrived with us a visitor, Carole, fell in love with her and regularly sends clothes for her, each with her name on the front so there is no mistaking who is to wear them. This is a photo as she was leaving. I draped Geoffrey with the latest jumpers which are still a little large, to show she would go home with them.
Last week, Mike and I went to Kigali in Rwanda in order for me to go to a Dentist. A filling had fallen out. He was a very good Dentist although I felt he was busy sculpting a work of art in there as it took 40 minutes to put the filling in! We did the journey by public transport which is always fun - well, not always. Mike was squashed up beside a young girl who spent the last hour of the journey being sick in her lap. She did it very quietly then would immediately sit up and carry on chatting to her mother. Ah, bewitchment of sickness, I was told when I got back.
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