Dr Kathy Kelley and Mary Jackson from Reston VA, USA.
Otto Fischer and a team of 9 from Austria paid a short visit.
Tom McGreagor and the Hutchinson family from UK spent a few hours visiting the kids and getting the grand tour.
Communication with the Kids
It is awesome how much jow a simple birthday card can bring. This beautiful card came to Claude from his support person in the US. He is one happy little boy.
The kids show our visitor Clare and her niece Jessica from England how to build with Legos. The Legos remain the favorite play time activity for the kids.
Jessica.
Some of the Legos the kids have decided to keep built. Well, for now anyway.
Amy, our volunteer at the school, brought her sister Ann to see where she was working during her holiday from another school in Rwanda. We so appreciate Ann and her willingness to give up her holiday to help out at Urukundo Learning Center.
Kirsten our volunteer nurse from the Netherlands.
Kirsten is a such hit with the kids. So much better than this more aged person! She is learning much about medicine in Rwanda and will visit the Medical Center below our compound to get a first hand experience in Rwanda Government Health Care.Visitors for August
Team from State College, PA.
Greg, Kevin, Dan
Pastor Lee, Dave
Robin, Kira and team leader Carol
Some of the challenges they helped with while they were here. The teen's head of household benefitted. Remera 5 boys get some help. Dan & Kevin carry water from a long distance to mix cement for the floor in the house of the boys.
Greg setting bricks in home of the boys.
Finished floor. Job well done!
Preschool Teachers Encouraged
Robin and Carol do teacher training.
Pastor Lee working with Sunday School teachers. The flannel board concept is new to our teachers.
Our Farm Reaped Blessings
Dave & Kira taught us farming from a new perspective. Mangers for feeding the cows is a big help in food consumption. Along with the chopper we are feeding our cows in a better way.
The manger works also for the goats.
Papa goat now has a home of his own for entertaining. Helping us keep better records.
Water and feeders for the rabbits were ingenious and a simple solution
Awesome what an inventor like Kevin can do with a plastic glass, a saucer, a nail and a block of wood. Thank you Kevin.Cows Get their Share of Attention
Dave, farm manager Sam and our cow boy putting the chopper into action.
It works!
Kira applying oil to the dry skin of the pig. We do not have mud for the pigs to roll in. I learn more about farming every day.
Our Visitors from SMU
Mary Evelyn.
After visiting with the SMU team these three decided to stay on for more time with the Urukundo kids.
Yvonne and Samantha
Hope House - Our All-Purpose Center
From 9am to 11am, Monday through Saturday, Hope House is full of activity. Legos, puzzles, hot potato, memory game, dominos, coloring, trucks, cars, airplanes etc inside. Football, tag, running matches and parachute outside.
Come join in the fun! Volunteers are welcome.
Present visitors work at Hope House.
Talia from Bloomsburg, PA and the kids do legos.
Soso teaching Meredith from Seattle, WA how to play picture dominoes.
Volunteer Rob James from California on his knees. Floor puzzles are great and this one is a map of the world. Educational as well as fun.
Claude and Rob joining forces to pick avocado.
Keenen James, Rob's son, plays with Becca & Claudine in Hope House.
Dad returned to the US after 8 days. Keenen remains with us for another 3 weeks.
Prince has a new best friend in Kyle. Kyle returned for the second time in this year. He is special for the kids.
The Ambassador from the USA
We were delighted to welcome US Ambassador Donald Koran and Secretary Mary Metzger to Urukundo Village, Farm and Urukundo Learning Center. After taking a tour, the Ambassador had lunch with the children.
It was a special visit.
Visit from the Governor
The Governor and a delegation from South Province visited Urukundo Village to view the water and solar pump project.
Our water system, thanks to Rotary and many friends of Urukundo, is an innovation in the area.
Gary Ehrig did the honors for Urukundo. He is a good ambassador.
Everyone there was pleased and thanked Urukundo for making South Province and Muhanga District a better place to live.
The Governor of South Province and our Muhanga District Mayor at the water project.
The Provisional Government from Kigali City Visits
Waiting for our Local Government reps to arrive.
We are honored. Oscar, Business Administrator for Urukundo, shakes hands with dignitaries.
News from the Volunteers On Site
Louise our volunteer from the UK teaches YOGA to energetic boys & girls.
Louise is working on research for her PhD in Rwanda and comes each weekend to spend valuable time with our kids.
Volunteers Kyle from Texas, USA and Charley from Canada work with our ten o'clock group in Hope House activity room.
The map on the wall has proven to be worth its weight in gold.
Our kids and volunteer Camilo from Columbia discuss where Camilo's home is.
This month there were 12 visitors at Urukundo Village. These visitors are youth, and vary in the time they spend. Some came for several days, others came for weeks and yet others come for a month or more.
We are blessed by these visitors and the work they have done while they were here.
8 different countries were represented : CANADA, COLUMBIA, FRANCE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, UNITED KINGDOM, SWITZERLAND, UGANDA AND RWANDA.
Nikki and Lelia from NY, USA stand at attention with the students. They were excellent teachers' assistants.
Lelia assists teachers at Cyakabiri school for small children.
Jolly, a regular volunteer from Rwanda, does journal work with the students.Maggie from Uganda came not only as a volunteer but became part of our permanent volunteer staff.
Our picture of Maggie did not turn out well - we'll try again so look for a picture of Maggie in next month's Newsletter.
Cornelia from Austria visited for a day and has vowed she will come back and stay longer next time.
Bruce and Margie Krogh, here from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University, shared their visitors with Urukundo. We were honored by a visit with Hedda Schmidtke, a teacher from Carnegie Mellon. Anita Kim and her husband Hyong Kim also from Pittsburgh. It is always a pleasure for me to introduce new friends to Urukundo and its kids. Staff members Vincent, Oscar and yours truly got in the photo.
Mike (California), Charley (Canada), Camilo (Columbia) and Kyle (Texas) doing hard labor preparing the road to the land for the hoped-for primary school.
We are looking for partners for this project.
The old man of the volunteers getting in a few digs.
Gary from New Hampshire, USA.
Camilo from Columbia supervising.
Sore muscles tomorrow for Gary.
