Feeding the children

More schools visited

Today we went to visit some more schools and all of them welcomed us warmly.  Hooray!  We have been in to a couple of secondary schools and another primary and now have dates in our diaries to do some ‘devotions’ as well as appointments for me to help with more reading/phonics classes – it seems there is a desperate need here for help with reading and I have said I will try to help the teachers with some phonics training too.  Any help from my UK teacher friends gratefully received, as I am by no means an expert!! 

 

We have also been asked to reinstate a feeding programme at one school where some of the children don’t have any food all day because their families are too poor to feed them.  Apparently it used to run but sadly the church had to stop it because of lack of funding.  The people in the church are really poor as well and it is hard for them to afford these extras so we pray we can get it started again as it met a real need in that village. 

At one school the head told us that there is a burial ground next door to the school and whenever there is a burial the children seem to become really unsettled and start arguing and fighting and people have seen strange things around the place.  So we have offered to gather the church leaders to go in and pray around the school to send whatever is causing the mischief packing! 

Stalemate on the landline

We are still no nearer getting a landline and therefore internet.  Mark called in to the phone company yesterday and explained that the landline was paid for on 7^th January and yet nothing has been yet been done.  They are now saying it is our responsibility to cut the trees down at the front of the house but we have no idea which ones they want trimming so now we are waiting for an engineer to come and tell us which ones to pollard.  AGGH!  We seem to move in ever decreasing circles!  I do pray we get a phone and internet connection before we leave!!