A while back we wrote about the heavy rains that had hit Rwanda in April and May this year. See Melissa's House.

Followers of the blog will know of our friend, translator and minder, Steven. We first met him shortly after arriving in Rwanda almost ten years ago.

The origins of world cooperative movements stretch back as far as 1498 when the Shore Porters Society was established in Aberdeen.

Despite being one of the smallest countries in Africa, Rwanda could never be accused of shyness in asserting itself on the international stage.

The posters on the walls at Scripture Union are new. Ebola, until now, has been a west African problem and if the news headlines are to be believed has been more or less contained.

Today is the first visit of this trip to our porridge project in Rutonde.

Those who have been following the blog will know that Pastor Zacharie has moved on from Rutonde Parish where he has been looking after our porridge project.

The Scottish Spring has turned into fast-approaching Autumn in what seems like a blink of an eye.

Melissa is one of our sponsored children being sent to school by Loanhead Church. Her's was one of the houses damaged in the recent rains which swept across East Central Africa.

On hearing the news that some of our sponsored children had been affected by the recent heavy rains in Rwanda we have arranged some emergency funding.