I am afraid that I have forgotten the name of this precious little girl but she is currently a patient in the BCC clinic with absolutely horrible burns. she fell into a cooking pot at home, was brought in for treatment and her mother was then instructed to return each day for the dressings to be changed - the clinic did not then see her for another 2 weeks. by that time the wounds were revoltingly infected. I have met the mother and she loves her girl dearly but with all her other kids she just did not have the time to bring her all the way in, problems like that are everywhere. the girl as an inpatient now and she improving a lot although the first two weeks were touch and go on whether she would survive, she has been standing in this doorway the last 2 days looking out at all the activity and watching the kids at Joshua playing in the distance - whenever Suze and I look over there she is smiling and waving - she is a real little stunner - we gave her a beautiful one of Margery's sewing angel dresses to wear when she heals

the plaque for the P4 classroom paid for by Fi and Adrians wedding present (they paid for the whole classroom - not just the plaque)

Robert and I are admiring the roof beams going up on his new house - we will head back there again tomorrow to see the aluminium sheets being put on - Robert is over the moon that his families situation is changing so dramatically, he is really quiet (he said to me today that he wants to meet you Gus - he is a little shy of girls and thinks it would have been easier to meet and get to know you instead of the gorgeous and intimidating Suze!!) but you can see the emotions running all over his face as he tries to be a strong man and keep it all in, I'm so glad that I've met him and established a real bond we can continue after I leave - he has always been shy of me up till now in his letter - but I think we've broken down that barrier now and are real 'mates'

although it looks like I am trying to get away from this nice policeman (lucky they don't ask to see your international license - or in fact any license - in Uganda) I was really just trying to get out of the way so Suze could take his picture - instead I look afraid he is going to climb in the window and get me!! we were suprised he let us take this really because as we have mentioned before you are not suposed to take photos of any kind of military, government or police persons/buildings/vehicles over here - but as with a lot of the warnings we received (like don't drive - you can see I paid attention to that) we have found out that things can be quite the opposite

Suze made some more MOO FRIENDS today - I think she is almost as facinated with taking photos of them alive and mooing as I am with taking photos of them skinned and hanging from a meat hook at a road side stall!!

I've named this one Bessie

If this site has not already been forwared onto Rebecca or Alison McDonald could someone do so? We finally got to North Rd Primary School today and met Joan! We gave her the parcel from Rebecca and she was so shocked/pleased to see us - Suze will bring home a little bit of video too of Joan when she gets home (along with video of every other kid we've met!!)