First day of school at Heritage International School for Lino, Taban and A-G

Lino and Taban learning how to make cookies
We are still amazed at how much these guys can consume!!

K-J on her 7 month birthday!

We are so thankful that A-G is such a good big sister

First taste of "real" food. Delicious Ugandan Avocado!

Yummy
6 1/2 months
One tooth and one on the way

Reading with big sister
Learning to crawl
push-ups

I'm finally up

Back down!

Up again!
on the move
Finally got what I was after!
Trying to pull up

reaching for the duck
this is hard!!
Yea!!! I did it!!
Soudi and Taban enjoying Lake Victoria! They came to join us here in Kampala the first of August and will now be going to school here. Our family has increased!! The other 6 are still in Kenya and will finish out the school year there before deciding what to do. We have a place fixed up for them to live in the back of our house, so they finally have a "home" to come to when they are on school holidays.
Lino, Taban and Soudi. Lino is as tall as Jade now and Taban is taller than Shelah. Lino will be in the 9th grade at Heritage International School and Taban will be in 8th grade. Soudi will attend a British/Ugandan boarding school where he will be in Senior 3 (like 10th grade).

Enjoying a picnic with the boys
AG with a new friend from Sudan she "found" at the picnic.

AG is really enjoying her new "brothers" They are teaching her how to play football (soccer)Tackling Taban

KJ is also enjoying all the attention
A few weeks ago we had a team of students out with us from the USA. They were a team specifically here to see what Christian organizations are doing to address the UN Millennium Development goals (there are 8 UN MDGs) addressing poverty issues. On their day off we decided to offer them a whitewater rafting trip down the Nile River...
Yes, that is their raft flipping over...
In the rocks...on the worst part of the river to flip...

looking for people in the water
coming to the rescue
Jade being "rescued"
Though very battered and bruised, we are very thankful that nobody was seriously injured. Jade is still recovering from his arm, rib and back injuries. Apart from that, and some stitches and sore muscles, everyone was okay.
Jade before being taken straight from there to a clinic in Kampala for x-rays. At least now he has a story to tell!

Five months old!!!

2 1/2 years old

Our family June 2008

Two girls living in an internally displaced persons camp in northern Uganda

(They are sitting on top of a large ant hill)

There are so many children everywhere and they always love to have their picture taken

Gulu town in northern Uganda

How much can be loaded onto one truck??

Bicycles lined up outside of a church...no cars in the parking lot

Men and women in the camp singing and dancing

A local instrument

Food drying in the sun

Little girl pumping water to carry back to her home

This old man really wanted us to take a picture of him holding his radio

Grinding flour

So much time is consumed in just surviving and getting food and water.

The camp is one hut after another. About 6 people live in each hut.

Drying clothes

School

Writing

For school, the lesson is written on the board and then all the students copy the lesson in their book. There are no text books, desks, or chairs in this school so the students just sit on the floor.

A latrine-- there is only one for every 30-40 people

Gifts from children in Holland being distributed to the children in the resettlement schools and camps

This school has around 980 students

Teaching in a setting like this with no curriculum is difficult to say the least!

These young men were so exicted to get the sunglasses in their gift box they were dancing around and laughing

Bubbles

Girls getting their gifts

Sharing

A typical scene all throughout Sub-Saharan Africa is women roasting maize on charcoal stoves

Drying cassava


Hopeful