A couple of quick little stories, before we shut down due to power being off.
Last week a student, hard working and serious came in very upset wondering about her future. In order to pay for the first semester she had sold most of her herd of goats and some chickens and now had no means of paying for semester two, or indeed anything else. The sum involved? a bit under $400 a semester. I find this very hard to take, people here try so hard with the little the have and in the West we wonder what to give the children for Christmas because they have everything and will, perhaps unhappily spend, yet again, $100 on a pair of trainers. Or as I know of $400 on a hand bag fro teenagers. Think again.
The boy who was sleeping on the floor with the goats and chickens now has a mattress, one of our friends in the business of looking after orphans read the riot act and the uncle who was trying to blackmail us into building an extra room onto his house, has been scared enough to behave himself, for the moment at least.
here is a picture of Anette our 'daughter' who is now in her second year of the full nursing course and doing very well.