In the news this week...

Greeting readers. So our little voyage to Kampala this weekend had to get cancelled due to some politicial riots in the capital city. Guess we'll just have to go another time. So that was a bit disappointing, but what can you do? Since the last time I wrote, I have edited two funding proposals for two different Jenga projects, edited and tweaked some informational material on our food storage program, been to another African wedding, a double children's birthday party and the most exhausting aerobics class I have ever encountered (think 1.5 hours of high-impact moves and LOTS of repetitive step work). I had very sore calves for a couple of days.

I also visited the hospital again and checked in on David. He looked about the same as last week, but you can tell the skin is slowly healing. His mum had another woman there with her and was feeding David some posho and beans, which I presume the other woman had brought. They seemed to be doing well. Before we headed into the wards, Ida (one of the Jenga staff) encouraged us by telling us that a lady had come into the office earlier in the week looking for the mzungu lady that had prayed for her at the hospital a couple of weeks back (I think it may have been me!). Anyway, I think we were all out somewhere but the lady told Ida she came in to say thank you because she had been sick in hospital with stomach complications and was in the surgery ward awaiting an operation. Basically, after we had come through and prayed for her, the complications disappeared, she felt better, so the doctors checked her out and told her somehow she wasn't sick anymore and that she could go home without needing surgery!  Woo hoo! It's always nice to be able to practically help people with their basic needs, but it's even better when God comes in and does the "impossible"!

We visited the TB/AIDS ward on Thursday which was really sad. The people there are really unwell and are very unlikely to get better unless they recieve a miracle. So we prayed for miracles. The patients were very appreciative of our presence in the ward - not many people like to hang around this ward for fear of becoming sick themselves (it's ok, I've had all my shots!). Thankfully, everyone we saw had a carer with them to provide food and company  while they were in hospital - this is not always the case which is a very sorry state to be in. I also dropped into the malnutrition ward again to get some photos that another Jenga volunteer needed for a brochure, and had a good chat with the head nurse there who is very helpful. We are hoping to start a feeding program in the ward from September this year which will go a long way in supporting not only  seriously malnourished children, but their mothers/guardians also. Stay tuned for more info later in the year.

In other news, we got a German Shepard puppy!! She is very very cute. We're thinking of calling her Korah, but Tiffany is yet to confirm! This is her:

So now we have four dogs. And a cat...who hates dogs. Especially puppies. She'll get over it.

Other than that, I don't think there's too much else to say. Hope everything is well in Melbourne or wherever you may be reading this from! Until the next post...

Louise :)