Sewing Group Continues to Learn

A group of 16 young women are two months into a 12 month internship to learn how to sew. Our neighbor Mediatrice is teaching the course. Mediatrice has taught sewing for seven years at Kabgayi and does an excellent job. The women come everyday 8am-1pm to our house and learn the basics of sewing. We built a sewing room where there is plenty of room and it is well lit. We recently found out that all but 3 women do not have health insurance. Through a donation we are able to offer six months of insurance to all 13 women and 3 of their babies. We hope to have projects for them to make some money for the start of an association. One project that they are working on is to make uniforms for children who cannot afford them. These uniforms will be given to needy children for free.

Land Cruiser Gets An Overhaul

We finally made the decision that our engine needed the over haul this week. We have knew that sooner or later we would have to "bite the bullet" and sink some serious money into the Land Cruiser. So on Monday I drove it into Gitarama and dropped it off at Kabgayi Garage where Juvenal will rip apart the entire engine and evaluate what needs to be replaced. It is funny that the same feelings of being taken advantage of happen here as well in the U.S. when it comes to mechanics. I have assigned Emmy, our business manager, the task of making sure that we don't pay for anything unnecessarily but I know that there is no guarantee that this won't happen. Juvenal was gracious enough to loan me his Honda motorcycle while he works on our vehicle. We live 45 minutes away from the garage so it is nice to have.