Our lovely girls arrived last night at 7p.m.. There was no electricity and they trundled into the compound bewildered and weary. There were nine girls, plus the local pastor from there and his wife, and also a mother of a couple of the girls, coming to see where her girls are going. There were 3 or 4 of the older girls who really look like they have been through the mill. Once they are 12 or so, who knows what had happened to them. We went into the hostel into the assembly room where all the girls were waiting to greet them and sang them some songs. I am going tomorrow, Wednesday, to photograph them individually, and get their stories, so they are ready for sponsorship. We already have 4 sponsors waiting. We had more training here today. We had a spectacular thunder storm most of the afternoon, but it was very dark and we have no electricity till 7p.m. so we were doing the training with candles and head lamps. Agnes and Viv were teaching the principal and the head of Mulpani campus how to timetable, and Liat training in doing devotions in the class room and worship leading. We went to the supermarket today, and we were lined up with our trolley of food and all the computer systems went down. We stood in line for ages, and then the poor girl at the checkout had to write it out by hand. There was an unhappy line of people. Grahame and Raju bought furniture for the office and teachers for the new campus and dedicated the second bus (one-third of the funds came from Australia)
Robyn
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