Today we went to Heri Junior School and Forrester Community Academy, 4 & 3 bus rides way, respectively. We left around 0800 and didn’t get there until nearly 10.

I was one of the first people to visit Heri, when we were assessing them as potential partners, and it’s really good to see how the school has developed over 4 years. They have new 2-storey classrooms – which are being praised as a “how-to” example following a recent tragedy in Ngando where a 2-storey school collapsed, killing 7 children and injuring over 40 others – rainwater harvesting and sturdier steps leading up to the container-classrooms.

We helped out with lunch-serving again, which was less onerous then yesterday in one sense as there were fewer kids – it was raining lightly, so all but the class 8s were fed in the classroom – but n another, there was no table, so we were squatting. At one point I nearly lost my balance, and pitched headfirst into the stew, which would have been …hot.

After lunch we went to Forrester, where we were all but mobbed in the playground – everyone wants a high-five. We gave out some donated/second-hand blazers to the year 6 & 7 pupils (Forrester have no class 8 – not until next year) and they were very well received.

We took tea, and then – given the several buses and major roadworks in the way – it was time to head back… for some reason we’re all really tired this evening, so apologies if this post isn’t up to my usual sparkling standards…