I just received an email blog from Nick Foster in Uganda. Check it out:
“We continued on with all three projects. Work at the computer lab involved finishing up the wiring for the computers. We are now ready when the internet installation happens. Computer classes progressed and the team did a great job making the topics interesting.
The team that went to teen town, aka African Child in Need set out to buy a new stove. The current stove is a large clay pot - how Betty cooks for 20 or more is a mystery. For $16 they were able to get a tire rim that had been outfitted with legs and a surface for your pots. In to this you put pieces of coal. It took less than ten minutes to get water boiling for lunch so it works!
It is a real lesson in the differences between the expectations we have for the "always there” www and what much of the rest of the world deals with. And, the benefit that students of the OCA computer centre will get once it is live - running this is the best long term thing we can do. One of our team talked to a 20 year old mother of two who was passionate about learning because this was her way of getting a job that would support her and her kids getting out of poverty.
The quote of the day goes to Milton who runs Teen Town who said, " Before you got here we were surviving. Now we are Living!” And we are conscious that our days are numbered here in Uganda. How do we sustain the things we have begun?
Be thankful for the small things. Regular electricity, a hot shower, the garbage that gets sorted and recycled. A regular income and friends to rely on. We tend to worry the small stuff and get really worked up when things don't happen when we expect them to. A cold shower in the dark puts things in perspective.
I will say goodnight there!
Hug someone for me,
Nick”
So that’s how Corporate Karma works. Pretty amazing eh?
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