Helpers, Hot Cross Buns and House Progress

The Cooley Team 2012.

When teams come to help out at Kasana it is always an encouragement to those of us who live and work there, especially when they are friends or even if they are just people from England bearing gifts of Tetley tea bags, Marmite and Dairy Milk! These last two weeks we have enjoyed having the 'Cooley Team' with us from Tees Valley (hope I got that right.....up North somewhere anyway!) The Cooleys (Chris and Anne) are the people I originally came out to New Hope with in 2008 along with Stu and Sarah Dendy and Steve Spencer. They are lovely, lovely people and have been a real blessing to New Hope these last 4 years; bringing teams out and organising various fund raising events in the UK.
This time the team was helping mainly with finishing off the new home for the babies in Hope Family and did an amazing job. However, once my class had recovered from the measles epidemic, several of the ladies were able to come and help out in my class.
On Thursday we made some hot cross buns at my house with Auntie Anna.

Baking lessons on Auntie Kate`s Verandah.

 Godfrey kneading the dough.

 Allen & Ivan glazing their buns whilst reclining on the sofa!
 

This week has also been very exciting in terms of the progress being made on my house......as you will see from my photos, the foundations are coming along well. I am trying not to get too excited though as building the external structure (bricks, roof etc.) is always the quick part and it is the internal part of the job that goes on and on and on.....................

And because I have hitched a ride to Entebbe with some friends so I CAN upload photos....I will post a couple more that I`ve taken this week:

 Jonnie and Judah in the David Family maize crib.

Thomas and Kate having a cuddle in Kampala.

Doing Much Better Today (Friday)

Just a quick update with some good news. All the children in hospital are doing much better today and we are hoping that the Doctor will allow some or all of them to be discharged tomorrow so we can have Easter at home......

Here are a couple of pics of Brian and Allen from today. They look soooooo much better than they did yesterday and I am breathing HUGE sighs of relief (especially over Allen who had me very worried!)

Please pray that I don`t fall victim to the measles as my Mum has just informed me that I didn`t have it as a child and didn`t have the vaccination either.

Time for bed now as it`s back to the hospital for me in the morning....

Hope you all have a lovely Easter weekend!

Measles and My House.

Sleeping Beauty needs your prayers!

Well, rest and relaxation had to come to an end sometime........

I returned from my weekend away in Entebbe to find some rather poorly children back home. It seems we have a measles epidemic going on in our area and 3 of the children from my class are admitted in the hospital with it along with dear Carol who had some symptoms of measles but no rash?! Please pray especially for Allen and Ivan who are both severely underweight for their age and are both very poorly. I have been with Allen all day today and she has had to have an NG tube put down as she was not taking any food or drink and having severe diarrhea. Bless her, she couldn`t open her eyes today because they were so swollen and stuck together L  It was hard to leave her this evening but she and Brian are being well looked after in their isolation room by Uncle Dennis who is currently working with us so that he can hopefully then afford to go and train to be a clinical officer.

Thankfully, Carol has come off the Oxygen machine today and is smiling and trying to talk to us so hopefully it won`t be long until she comes home but you can pray that she stays home this time!

We have been told to bring the rest of the special needs children in to have booster vaccinations in the next few days but that is only 5 of them as the other 5 have all got or had measles!

On a happier note, I am very excited to tell you that this week they have started digging the foundations to my house. Thank you so much to those of you who have donated money towards this project. I will keep you updated on the progress with news and pics. I think I will try and make a page on my blog for my house project so watch this space......

And finally, I thought I`d add a photo of Wilbur, one of the children who we have been able to support in the community. Here he is with his Grandmother (and younger sister or cousin) wearing his splints that we got from Katalemwa Rehab Centre and using the parallel bars which the physio built for him at home to practise his walking.