Another attempted break in!

Happily Maggies back is much better but she did have to take a day off work last Tuesday.While she was resting at home she heard the sound of breaking glass.She went to the spare bedroom and found a broken window with glass shattered all over the room. Rasoul our ascari had also heard the noise and rushed around to the back of the house. Happily this was not a thief but a monkey that had thrown itself at the window, luckily the monkey was ok. The monkeys are frequent visitors again.They are after the mangoes which are coming in to season.
We have had another visitor this week a bat flying round the living room.I am now getting to be a dab hand at catching bats. The trick is to throw your dressing gown over them as they fly past and then knock them to the floor. Then once Maggie stops screaming you can scoop them up in to a plastic container and put them out the door.
The power situation has improved for us but has been bad for the town. The main transformer has blown so Masindi has had no power for the week and is unlikely to be reconnected for another week. This is causing great problems for the hotels and shops as the freezers are not working. But it is only the muzungos and the wealthy who it affects because the vast majority of Ugandans do not have power at home.It is easy to forget how lucky we are compared to the majority.
This week we have held meetings with the volunters that Pam and I trained.The first meeting was attended by 40 out of 43 volunteers, who had walked up to 5k over bad roads to get to the health centre. They were all pleased to get their t shirts and mosquito nets but we were pleased to see that they were still motivated. They are all keen to use their knowledge and even keener to start distributing mosquito nets. We have 500 to distribute but need 5000. At the moment our best bet is to buy nets through the Red Cross from Rwanda. We are negotiating for a good price but will need to do some serious fund raising. Pam has decided to return to the UK in December and concentrate on raising the money to buy the nets.We have promised the volunteers we will get them and we can not let them down.
The picture at the top is one of my saddest pictures. This is a discarded mosquito net someone has been given and just thrown it away. They do not realise how it could save lives. This is why we are spending time teaching people about the value of nets and why we are selling the nets not just giving them away.