The Maintenance Workshop

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September 9th, 2007

We are just finishing our packing to head to Kampala. Then tomorrow morning we get on the airplane.
We uploaded another video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV0ZKKdu9QI

We went to the renewal service at church today and it was raucous! People were singing and dancing, jumping up and down. it was great. We took some video of it.

Yesterday the Boda guys gave me a handmade plaque thanking for our work here. It was very moving, they have become good friends.


The maintenance workshop went great. Over a hundred young men, we did lots of fixing flats, tightening bolts, adjusting brakes and oiling. It turned from a learning workshop into a free repair clinic. They fixed others bikes while others watched. That's what the Boda's wanted to do, they wanted to be generous to their community with the gifts that we gave them. Amazing. They were the instructors and took charge of thier areas, I didn't have to do much of anything except hand them water bottles and support them.


We had a final lunch together and I gave them the rest of the tools. Spanners, 5 tires, a tool box, another pump. And because we got some additional gifts from First Presbyterian, we were able to increase their medical insurance accounts to 70,000 Ush each. It's not much in US dollars but it will go a long way in Uganda for these familes.

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