A week in Kampala

Mar, the kids, our two teachers and I have spent the past week in Kampala while Mar taught at the African Bible University and I worked on installing solar panels. It has been a good week. We were joined by our nephew Justin and our Kiwi friend Andrew in Mbale. We have been also working with our friend from Mbale, Juma who is the director of maintenance at CCURE pediatric hospital. It has been a good week, welding up frames, installing panels, raising them to the roof and bolting them on, then running wiring to the charge controller and batteries. It is fun to help people with their energy problems. On top of the solar project, the school here had a lightning strike last week which knocked out 6 inverters we had previously installed.

This is the second time we have been here at ABU when we got news from home that someone in our family was seriously sick. My sister wrote yesterday and told us our grandmother, Dorothy Kraft had passed away. Being 10,000 miles from home is difficult when things like this happen. We are thankful our family lives close by and that everyone can be together.

Hopefully tomorrow we will start getting organized and get the shopping done and head back up country. I am very glad Justin is here and can see this amazing place we live and work in. There is a lot of work to do and he will be a great help. We hope to get him out to a game park while he is here- perhaps to Kidepo on the Karamoja-Sudan border. It will be an interesting ride up country.