School fees - a day at the banks
It is Friday and a new school year starts on Monday. Like many in Rwanda we are spending the day paying school fees at the last minute.
It is Friday and a new school year starts on Monday. Like many in Rwanda we are spending the day paying school fees at the last minute.
It is only three months since we were last here in Kigali and the place is starting to feel like a second home. The evening air as we leave the plane is a pleasant twenty degrees.
Mbabatze is a young girl who is being supported by Loanhead Church.
We could have sworn it was an electrical shop we were in, but this is Africa and we have learnt long before now just to go with the flow.
We discovered a piece of Rwandan technology yesterday for the first time when we visited Mama Melissa at her house.
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.
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.