We visited the Nyamiyaga Secondary School. The school borders the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, which is the primary reason we chose to work with this school in particular along with the fact that one of the local CTPH staff was a student there. A secondary school was chosen in an attempt to see if we could start a project linking them with one of the High Tech High Schools. We asked the students to come up with some project ideas, which they did, and chose a boy and a girl leader from Senior 2 (Sophomore). One of the student teachers approached me and he will try to facilitate the projects. There are many stumbling blocks to defeat, but it is possible to overcome their lack of internet or computer (only 2 or 3 students had ever seen a computer), no electricity - poor lighting, etc. Francis, the book keeper, took David's (the CTPH staff member that attended Nayamyaga Secondary School) computer class at CTPH and will help David with the technological aspects of this project.
We then drove to a home visit in the Bujengwe Parish to find out if these families have proper facilities for the restroom, kitchen wear cleaning and drying, how they tend to their livestock and more.
Saw some cattle that were bought for the community livestock project and saw where they are housed. The cattle were healthy so Stephen talked about other community projects that will help with sustainability that will help the community such as refrigeration for the milk, making butter and cheese.
After dinner we asked Sam and Hillary to come and get a very huge spider out of our tent only to find another one in the shower above my head in the morning. Everywhere I look I see this kind of spider, we think it is a wolf spider.
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