Latest News from the site, dated 27/9 2000

They both live in Kenya and from there, they e-mailed the text and images.

Below is the first image showing the school doors being erected.

"We went to the border on Saturday the 14th of September, as people were about to go home for the weekend. They are supposed to work also during the weekends, but it seems it is to be with reduced energy. Last time, I crossed the border with the lorry carrying materials and tools, it took me 3 hours at the border! This time I took 3* day, because the Ugandan customer had been renewed just one week earlier.

And officers from the office of the president are closing all holes, so as little as one kilo of sugar, they make sure, that the government get their taxes and what ever. They are very strict.So all our goods were cross checked to fit according to our packing list.

We arrived to the site of Kings Primary School on Tuesday evening, just as it was getting dark.
I was very tired. So we pulled our matresses out and laid them in the old school building.

I also took my mosquitonet and tied it carefully around my mattress. I was very tired, so I went to bed without eating. But one hour later I woke up, because it was itching all over my body. I took my touch
and saw, there was hundreds of bed bugs and other blood sucking insects, and even some mosquitos had come inside my net. So I jumped out, and I told our fundis, that there was no way, that we could sleep there this way. Good
luck we had brought 2 small tents (brought from DK in January) and we put them up outside. Because inside the building there was so many mosquitos and other insects. We had asked the people around, if there was any rain, and people had told us, that there was no rain, so it seemed that it would be no problem to sleep in the tents outside. And we had a good rest.

The next day we started to off load the lorry and the trailer, and when it was done, we started to slash the grass all around and mark the corners ofthe building. While we had some to dig for the foundation, I took one of our fundis and some of the guys from the site with me to the river to pick sand. We got the 14 ton of sand, but it was almost impossible to get up from the river, because a down pour of rain started. The lorry almost was stuck in the river! But we managed.

Because of the rain, our fundis and other people had moved our tents inside the old school building, but all the insects didn't come inside the tents, because the tents are new and tight. So we have been okay. Without those tents, it was impossible to stay there.

On Thursday we started to arrange for a tractor, which should come on the Friday, and to look for a way to get ballast. We couldn't get the people in
charge on the Thursday, so we didn't get ballast before Friday. So instead we went to get bricks, and we went 25 kms towards Mbale and got them not far from the main road. As we were loading the bricks and had almost finished, it started to rain. But we wouldn't waste the half of the transport, som we kept loading, though it was lightening and really heavy tropical rain. We were all wet to the skin. But the lorry and trailer was loaded completely, and we went back towards the school in darkness. As we went, a matatu came driving in the opposite direction to pass us, and I
discovered, that he was driving half off the road, and as he was about to pass our lorry, I just saw 2 people walking at the road side, and the matatu banged into one of them! I was sure, the person was killed.

I stopped the lorry, and I shouted to another matatu, which had stopped behind our lorry, that there was an accident. We ran to the other road side, and the wife of the man, who was hit, screamed. Anyway we saw, that the man was not killed but seriously injured with blood all over his back.

The matatu was very kind and they took him to a hospital. The matatu, which hit the man, had taken disappeared immediately.

On the Friday, we got the hard cores, and we were ready to cement the posts down, but as we should do it, the welding generator failed. And we need that one to reinforce the building.

So it hasn't been easy. But we will make it. With Gods help. I hope, that when I come back, we will not have all the rain, because it is much harder, when there is such a lot of rain.

Soren and Birgitte"