Umuganda and visit to our Compassion child

Today is the day of community work called Umuganda it is always on the last Saturday of the month, coming together for a common purpose everyone from the President downwards has to join in.
So this morning our team joined with the workers from the guest house to weed the drive.

It was really good to join in with our Rwandan Brothers and sisters 

in their community day.

The team at work

As the day started to warm up we became quite hot and the work was finished about 10.30 and we were all treated to some nutritious porridge which the workers enjoy.

Jean Pierre a pastor from DR Congo arrived and later Nbonga one of the leaders of the Congolese church. We have been meeting them for several years and have built up a friendship. I brought out some medical equipment for their diabetic and hypertension clinics. In the afternoon the group split up some going to Pastor Bertha's where the ladies did some training for teenage girls and Rob measured up the church for a water harvesting system.

We went to visit our Compassion child first going to the centre where they are taught and then going to his house which is way down a long series of mud roads. We went in a tiny Toyota taxi which bumped and banged along the rutted road.

Ian and Mary with their Compassion child Theophyle

Their large family of 8 children and 2 grandchildren 

all living in the little mud house with crumbling walls

There was great joy all round as we talked and prayed together we exchanged gifts and took photographs.

Compassion UK is an organisation which organises sponsorship for poor children all over the world.

There is a centre where they going for feeding and activities on Saturday and they are sponsored through school and the sponsors in the UK are encouraged t. o visit the family.

Then we went back to the guest house to have a meal with Theophyle. He really enjoyed the beef brochettes which I think he would hardly ever eat at home.

Sunset over the lake