Sunday 29 April 2012

A sad bereavement

Since we returned from Uganda we heard that Enos Kyibibi, the Skill Project Director, has suffered the loss of his father, Mzee Ephraim, who was 96. We met him briefly on our recent visit, and prayed with him as we learned that he was poorly.
The picture shows Enos with his wife and two children, and his elderly father on the left (and me in the middle!)
Here is another clip of the Hostel opening day, 24th March - showing Mary with a bunch of the street boys around her.
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Saturday 21 April 2012

Another video!

First an apology - I am having trouble editing my posts and writing new ones - when going to the Blog via AOL, as I always have in the past, and then trying to sign in, I now get an "ERROR" message. It was suggested that I use Firefox instead, which I am now doing - but their posting screen is quite different, and I have struggled!
However I have tried to write a new post, with a Link to a YouTube video:
http://youtu.be/n7vgkDYKCVo
This - I hope - will show you a choir arriving at the Hostel Opening on March 24th, singing in their truck as it drove up.

Friday 6 April 2012

Video Clips of Hostel Opening

http://youtu.be/cpjlwN096BE
This shows one of the school choirs which sang at the Opening.
The next clip shows me speaking to Ashiraf, the boy who in 2008 had spoken to us about the life on the streets, and why they were there - words which had touched our hearts and led to the entire project being started.
When we arrived at the Opening, Enos met us, saying "Here is your boy!" At first Ashiraf had no recollection of speaking to us four years earlier; but I showed him a photocopy of his words in his own handwriting, and he looked, and said, "Oh, yes! I remember!" So I called him forward during my speech.
http://youtu.be/pOy5AK2spWQ