We only had one official visit today, the rest of it is some well-deserved larking about.
First thing this morning the guys took me from some 'Sport'. Sport is a walk / run up in the mountains and across the plains, through villages and plantations. We did about 3 hours up some pretty big hills which over look Ruyigi. The view was breath-taking, (as were the flipping hills).
Karama Village School
When we got back we had a quick shower then headed out to Bweru again for a visit to Karama Village School. The school was built last year by the PTA set up and trained by ActionaAid. Action contributed to the build in the form of metal sheeting for the roof and building supplies that could not be sourced locally and get this...the PTA organised a kiln and fired 50,000 bricks itself!
The headmaster at Karama School
Had the school not of been built the local children would have a 4 to 8km walk to school, but the route to that school crosses a river which is impassable during the rainy season, so they never used to go.
Josias gathering information for Action Aid
ActionAid also put one of its Reflect Centre's in here to teach literacy and modern farming methods. The more I experience out here the more I am amazed by ActionAid and especially the Ruyigi team. It's hard to describe these guys, a lot of them are ActionAid veterans with 10+, 15+ and even 20+ years under their belt. Basically they've dedicated their life to it and they should be recognised for it.
Ruvubu National Park
After are visit we were running a bit late but headed East to the Ruvubu National Park. The problem of our late arrival worsened when we couldn't find our guide but when that was all sorted out it was decided we couldn't go where the guide was initially going to take us because there were likely to be tigers about. A fair concern if you ask me.
We headed over to a forest and had walk through spotting a few gibbons but we had run out of light so decided to get up dead early to go and have a better look in the morning.
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