23 11 14 Mount Cyangugu
I awoke up to a bright morning with beautiful birdsong and
fisherman singing on the lake. After breakfast
the little group had various tasks Rob John and Peter were mending
filters then a visit from the pastor and teacher from the church we visited
yesterday to teach them how to use the two filters which they has donated.
I went up to the clinic which was a hive of activity very
busy with many people attending the out patients a few inpatients and a very
busy building plot where the new clinic for maternity services was going up.
Apparently this will be ready for use by December but there certainly seemed a
lot to do. I had a tour and delivered
some medical books on midwifery from England then a pleasant walk back to a
light lunch of soup.
Some of the team went off to see the Mayor who is the head
of local administration. Jonathan and Judy went up to town and were going on to
visit a widow with HIV. Mary and I went back up to Mount Cyangugu by taxi, Mary
to visit Bertha and myself to do a teaching session at the clinic. The
nurses really enjoyed the french DVD and my powerpoint presentation but quite
dificult to get them to be that interactive as it is not the sort of teaching
they are used to.
Mary giving Bertha her laptop
Peter training pastors from Gisakura Church
Mary was greeted with
open arms by Bertha and Ephraim. Many mixed emotions as Bertha had just given
birth to a beautiful little baby but her mother had just died very suddenly of
a gastric haemorrhage. However they
welcomed us very generously providing Mary with a meal while I did the teaching.
They were overjoyed to see the computer we had brought for them from Barbara,
which they will recieve at the end of the trip. We were walking home when a
very smrt new car drew up and we were ushered into the bishop’s car for a ride
home. He stayed and chated for about an hour. The an evening meal of really
african buffet: yams, matoke, casava, sambasa the little fish that come from
the lake and the red African beans which I love; followed by really jucy
pineapple. Then we did some African drumming on the table, finally to bed
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