After a very quiet weekend (almost too quiet, since the inverter wouldn’t charge my laptop) yesterday’s trip to Nanyuki passed in a total whirl of busy-ness. I have decide to save most of the details of our adventures for my forthcoming world lecture tour entitled “Blogging with the Maasai” so I’ll just talk to you about the photograph.

With yet more funds heading towards Sanga, Moses and I made a list of projects large and small. Mrs C very kindly allowed me to spend some of the money directly:

· Chicken wire to enclose the vegetable plot to improve children’s diet

· An axe for making the posts

· A screwdriver for fixing the doors on the children’s toilets

· A larger pot and some more plastic cups for the kitchen

· Guttering to harness the rainwater into the tanks (not shown)

Moses obtained prices for two more major spends:

1. Water tanks

2. Solar energy system for the new classroom block (so that staff can work during the evenings)

I hope that both of these will be in hand and accomplished by the start of the new term. We’ll pass the prices to Faith soon.

In addition we hope to be able to repair some of the classroom floors.

I haven’t quite given up on the idea of providing shoes for the children, but it would be completely impractical to do that through Lewa, and I shall not be able to get to the bank again now before I leave. Please don’t worry about the children in bare feet, they seem just as happy to run around like that and I seldom hear crying, even amongst the very young ones.

More news from me soon.