On Friday John and Emmy (along with the Cell Leader, Josine) met with the landowners. We had meetings with nine landowners for the past 3 months and this was suppose to be the big "price negotiating" meeting. It ended up falling flat as landowners wanted unreasonable amounts for their property. Our mission center needs around 10 acres for the first phase of the school. It was clear that instead of negotiating privately we need to do the "official" expropriation that the government sets forth. Using the government method we will be able to have a set price/square meter and everyone will receive the same pricing. So we are in the process of finding an architect who can draw up a master plan of our mission center. Once we have all of our documents ready we submit them to the District who will then help us buy land.
Before the meeting started we had a visitors from Kigali and Ruhungo. These were executives from the power company. They came to survey our project to see if it qualifies for a special program to bring electricity to rural areas. The good news of the day is that it looks like we will qualify and that we potentially could have electricity by the end of the year!
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