Yesterday I went to Kamfinsa to help the community finish plastering (rendering) and liming Pastor Albert's new house. His family had spent a good 2 weeks with us at KBUC where they had a well deserved holiday. Remember they moved out to Kamfinsa village last summer in order to see the community grow and prosper and left behind both power and water supply to do it! Here they were able to enjoy swimming in the Kaniki pool as well as even going out for Italian Ice-cream! It was the perfect end to their holiday to take them back to their new house, fully finished inside and out. And of course all this is thanks to the amazing work of the AQ team and especially our summer teams who have worked over the last 6 weeks to make this possible! THANK YOU!!
Our teams have not only worked on the pastor's house but also on making the school ready for it's opening this week. Both classrooms were painted over the summer as well as all 78 panes of glass being cut and put into their long awaiting window frames. Firstly, this made the classrooms so much lighter as until the glass was in place huge bookshelves had been used to block up the windows to prevent dust and rain blowing inside. Secondly the general learning environment is massively improved, it is brighter, cleaner and has alphabet and number lines on the walls to stimulate their interest in learning. It is so good to also be able to share the news that the school is now open and has a good teacher in place - Mr Enoch Kaseke (right). Enoch is on a trial 12 month contract and is determined to have both the children and any willing parents speaking English by the end of the year.
We have also been blessed with the provision of a much needed sewing teacher and also funding for materials so that the ladies of Kamfinsa can learn how to make School uniforms. They are starting by making yellow and brown uniforms for Kamfinsa's own school and then they will begin making blue uniforms for sale to children who go to government schools which are much further away. While I was in the village yesterday, the sewing teacher made the first uniform for the grade 1 children and Pastor Albert's youngest son, Saviour, enjoyed modelling it as he is 4 years old and so is starting school this week. Saviour is the boy above looking through the 'Who's in the Zoo?' book. Having spent the last 2 weeks with him I am sure he is going to learn English very fast - he certainly enjoyed trying to repeat everything I said anyway, just a shame he picked up the Brummie accent as well!
THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN TO ALL OF YOU WHO SUPPORT US AND THE WORK OF KAMFINSA! IT'S AMAZING!!
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