Day 21

The final holiday club was upon us. We piled into the van and set out on the short journey to the church where we were working. The children were ecstatic to see us. They were singing and dancing and wearing the bracelets, badges and hats which they had made. They seem so pleased with their new things, which gives a sense of achievement for us as we saw there faces as we offered them the gifts. They began by singing to us and obviously we returned the favour. We soon got down to business though and began our activities according to day 3 of the plan. These were the puppets, jointed people, sports games, team projects, team chants and the workbooks. The children enjoyed working on the workbooks as they were able to keep them once they had completed the tasks. It also helped to build up their English skills which is a key to the new education scheme as English teaching has only been brought in during the last 18 months. It is amazing how far they have come with their spoken English in a relatively short amount of time. Whilst we were doing the various tasks, a small audience of local people congregated around each of the tables watching what we were doing. At the end of our holiday club John gave a speech to the children on all of our behalf expressing how much we have enjoyed being with them and getting to know them on a more personal level. We left the remaining resources, such as sports equipment and paper with the school. We felt very sad to leave as we had all built up a relationship with the children in our groups.

After lunch we were taken on a 2hour drive to a well known waterfall on the border of Tanzania and Rwanda. After checking with immigration we were allowed to go half way over the bridge as we had to stay on the side of Rwanda. The waterfall was much more powerful and larger in scale than expected. From this point it flows to the Nile and then the Mediterranean. After lots of photographs we headed back to our Guest house in Kibungo.