After selling raffle tickets for the beautiful patchwork items for three months, the draw was finally held on Saturday 10th December.
A fourth prize had been added by the skilled and crafty maker and donor of the patchwork quilts and cushions - two beautiful, large, hand-made Christmas baubles.
The first prize (double quilt) was won by a pensioner couple from Ulverston (who bought their ticket at Orton Farmers Market).
The second prize (lap quilt and matching cushion) by a couple in Penrith, who bought their ticket at a Penrith Singers rehearsal.
The third prize (two matching cushions) and fourth prize (baubles) were won by people in Kirkby Stephen - they probably both bought their tickets when we were stationed outside the Cooperative one Saturday!
The raffle brought in a total of £1,300 - the best prize of all!
Street Kids suffering goes on
Enos Kyibibi tells us from Kasese that the kids have been getting a lot of harassment from the police, and two of them are at present in prison.Enos comments that prison staff are not known for their gentleness and kindness.
He particularly alludes to the wonderful picture shown here, of the boy looking after a baby boy, the child of a sex worker dying of AIDS.
Just to remind you what it's all for - here are two Kasese street children - about the same age as my grandchildren - scrabbling in the rubbish, hoping to find something worth trying to sell for a few pence. 
So here are a few more pictures to record the event.
2. The display showing the "story so far" of the Kasese Street Kids hostel; and a stand of colour photographs of African children, which were for sale (but no one bought any!)
3. Some of the guests at the Preview gathering to hear the speakers and see the Presentation; in the foreground are Margaret Sentamu and Carol Allen Storey (the photographer) chatting.
4. The photograph of the boy holding the baby, which was the one we used on all the publicity for the Exhibition, and which we had blown up to AO size - almost four feet high.
5. The crowd enjoying the wine, canapes and chat.
3. Walls and floor: Before the boys move in they want to get the walls and floors plastered, and this will be paid for (at least partially) by selling the bricks that the boys themselves have made. In this way the street boys are making a direct contribution towards completing their building. 
The church building is magnificent, and a wonderful setting for this Exhibition; we are so grateful to the Vicar and PCC for allowing us to use it.
Carol Allen Storey, the photographer, has been invited into two local secondary schools (Dallam and Kirkbie Kendal) to speak to various student groups - arts, geography, sociology - on the Friday.
We mentioned that the electrical work on the Hostel had been completed; this picture (emailed from Enos yesterday) show the three solar panels on the roof. I am not sure what the man is doing!
The plumbing work, we were told, is still proceeding. As proof, here are some of the cisterns for the toilets arriving on site. (They are going to be fitting five WC pan sitting toilets, not African-style squatting toilets. I imagine the external toilet block will have the squatting variety.)
(c) Carol Allen Storey
This is how we first met the street children, in spring 2008. On our visit to Kasese with missionary friends, one day we were taken round about eight schools. We were greeted with smiling faces, singing and dancing, meeting the teachers, signing the Visitors' Book, etc.
A generous church
This beautiful patchwork quilt, entitled "Romantic Roses", is to be raffled on behalf of the Kasese Street Kids.
The actual quilting was carried out by Dianne Watson from Lochearnhead. 
All the musicians gave their time and talents free, some travelling a considerable distance to be there. (Pictured: Andrew Forsyth playing Bach on his flute.)
We had good news yesterday - someone who has already been an extremely generous giver to the Kasese Street Kids project has just made a further very substantial donation. Friend, without you we could not have got nearly as far as we have with building our Hostel! We are so very, very grateful.
We are still trying to plan an Exhibition of the moving black-and-white photographs by Carol Allen Storey, professionally printed and mounted to the highest standards, in Holy Trinity Parish Church, Kendal. But it will cost hundreds of pounds to mount such an exhibition. We do not feel it right to use money raised or donated for the Street Kids Hostel for costs of printing and framing etc; and so we are looking for sponsorship from businesses.
(4) When the kiln is complete (this one looks a bit amateurish and rough on top, but they are just children!), banana leaves are spread over the top, and wood is shoved into the hole at the bottom, set alight, and covered up - it can burn for two or three days.
It is good that the boys can actually make a contribution towards the work!
Two little street boys in Kasese scrabble in a charred rubbish dump. I think this dump has been burnt at some time, and they are seeing if they can find scraps of charcoal which they are saving in a plastic shopping bag, to see if they can sell it for a few shillings. Better, I suppose, than doing what they so often have to do - search the dumps and skips for something to eat. 
Windows and doors: There is progress with installing steel doors and window shutters, which can be seen here. But these shutters are proving to be a good deal more expensive than the price originally quoted a year ago, £65 each. In fact they cost over £100. So I may have been over-optimistic in my last post, hoping that the £3,000 recently sent out will complete all the shutters and the internal doors too. 
