SATURDAY 8th December

Thought you might be interested to hear about a couple of friends, Masindi residents who figure quite abit in my stories.......
SALLIE WAREING came out to East Africa as a young girl when her father  spent some years in Tanzania advising in Agriculture. She returned to England to study and became a Headteacher in Derbyshire. Roughly 20 years ago she took early retirement and came to Uganda as a VSO working as an Inspector of Schools. Her latest adventure has been to buy and run The New Courtview Hotel where she is a fountain of wisdom and practical help to all. At present she is a great help to me as I worry about what is best for disabled Harriet and how to help that family out of poverty.

This is Roger Turner, who bravely came right out of his comfort zone and settled in Masindi almost ten years ago to advise and help the former Bishop Stanley Ntagali. Roger and his friends in England formed a fundraising group to help and advise the relatively newly created Diocese of Masindi-Kitara.On his own Roger has set up an orphanage run on  roughly english boarding school lines and pays the fees of over 20 boys at various schools and unis in the district.. He lives a dictinctly monastic life but has shown me a thatched dwelling he has had built for a dormitory so  can see the waterproofing of the roof and the quality of the concrete floor.
I have woken up this morning with  these issues on my mind. I have used up all the money  entrusted to me to secure the classroom windows but would really like to finish off the thatched classroom with a sturdy concrete floor and leakproof roof.. Basically I am about 200 pounds sterling short. and now with only a week left I am worried that I am not going to get The Headmistress back from her village and clear the classroom used for storage ready for use in February.........