Kenneth, Trevor and Charles in school and Garden Party 18th July and Afternoon Tea 2nd August

Dear friends,

I’ve had lots of photos from Tresor this week and did speak to him on Thursday evening as he was walking back home. All is well at George’s Place, he says the new boys are settling well. The boys we rescued in March have now been admitted into Little Angels, primary school – Kenneth and Trevor into P3 and Charles in P2. (Charles had only been to nursery school before joining us).

I arrived back the early hours of last Wednesday having had a very relaxing time with my family, reading, swimming, enjoying good food and chilling in 30+ degrees with a sea breeze! It was good to stop – I had been very busy before I came back to the U.K. – and am off again tomorrow afternoon to visit my cousin and his wife in Bergen, Norway for a few days, only 14 degrees there and rain forecast!

Yusuf has worked on a promotional poster of himself, he is so keen to be a footballer, your prayers please that he can at least get a trial, as this might help him to focus on his agriculture training in the future. He is planning to see some of his distant family members next week near Mbarara. Meanwhile he’s been helping with the cooking.

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.” ‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭3‬:‭1‬ ‭

Sula is back this weekend as he is seeing Peace on Monday, we are still supporting him with somewhere to stay as I don’t think he gets well paid in the hairdressing salon, but we need to sort out numbers!

Godfrey has called into the home and has had a haircut, which everyone appreciates – dreadlocks are really frowned upon in Uganda. We are looking at helping him buy a grass strimmer, as we feel he could benefit at working in compounds. He has no close family and his elderly grandmother died last year, he was older when he came to us and although did a boda mechanics course, had never been to school. It is strange as he is particularly good at chess and he’s a nice young man. You may remember when we picked him from the streets in 2017 he ran along holding the side of the car saying ‘please take me’ – until we stopped and squeezed in with the other boys we were rescuing.

Raymond is back at school after his typhoid bout.

I don’t think there is much more news this week, I know Peace is planning to start home tracing for the four new boys – I still don’t seem to have got the right name for the right face – but am trying – Andrew, Tony, Laushen and Jordan, prayers please for them all. One is reluctant to tell us where he is from.

Many thanks for all your love and support. We really couldn’t be doing this without you.

Love Jane x