excited about water
We got water in our house yesterday – sooo exciting!! Honestly never thought I would be so excited about having a shower. So we filled up all the buckets, washed our clothes, cleaned the house… I had a wee production line set up, boiling water on the gas stove, filtering it and then filling up the bottles for drinking water. The water we use for cooking and washing up needs to be filtered, so there was a batch just being filtered as well. So I think we are fully stocked up now for another week. The rains should start to come in March/April which I think will mean we’ll get running water more often.
My email is playing up. I am so annoyed cos I had sent some group emails round with photos but they don’t seem to have sent properly. Now that I have my laptop configured it is easier for me to email but the connection is really slow- so bear with me! You can have a look at SIMLI Aid’s website at www.simliaid.org they are a much bigger organisation than I realised and are involved in lots of areas of human rights, not just women’s rights. It’s great actually to be involved with such an interesting charity. I am really excited and really just want to get my teeth into some work now, but it all takes time. We are going to visit some of the rural projects on Wednesday and Thursday this week which will be great and then hopefully we will be given more information about what they want us to do.
I found out that they were awarded around £16,000 from Comic Relief for a microfinance project, which gives small loans to people, mainly women, to start up their own businesses. So I guess we may apply to them again for some more.
