Week Seven

Week seven has been another busy week for team Cyangugu. We kicked off the week eager to speed up the production of our Energy Efficient Cooking Stoves, and so with advice from our partners at RDIS and the help of the local village leaders, we carefully selected 4 of the 10 locals we had trained in the making of these stoves. The plan was to then spilt into two groups, consisting of 2 trained locals and 2/3 ICS volunteers (Us).  With one group working in Gatovu and the other in Mundima.

By Tuesday we were very pleased with the progress we'd  made,  despite a few hiccups, our two teams had managed to make a grand total of 29/50 stoves! :D

Also worth a mention, was the lovely dinner we had at the home of our colleague, Sam. We spent the entire evening dancing, laughing and as usual we ate ALOT! And oh, we also had the besssssssssst African Chai tea...Ever!!

Towards the middle of the week we had another special visitor, Maddie, our ???. who braved the 6 HOUR! drive from Kigali to come and see us! :) It was really lovely having her here (plus she brought biscuits! - Claudia made me put that in ;) ) and we got to tell her about all the work we'd completed during our 7 weeks here. We also got to have individual one on ones with her, and discuss our learning and growth since we first arrived. It was truly amazing hearing what we've all learnt, and interesting to see the debates and life lessons this brought up afterwards.

We ended the week on a high, sharing breakfast with the Bishop of Cyangugu, as well as other RDIS staff.It was such a blessed time, with a lot of laughs! But most importantly, we also got to share with the Bishop all the work we've been doing during our time here.

That pretty much sums up week 7, looking forward to what week 8 will bring :)