World Vision tour day 1-Jan.31

We were picked up early by Mary and driver Richard from World Vision's district office. They drove us 1.5 hours west to Isagehe development program area where we picked up some local staff members who gave us an overview.
Our first stop was to see a fledgling project that WV has helped initiate. A few local milk producers created the Dairy Cattle Keepers Assoc. of Kahama and they supply daily milk to a small facility where 6 women are employed making fresh yogurt. See picture with 2 of the ladies.
Next we drove to the village of Mpera's school where Silasia goes to school. Silasia is the 11 year old boy sponsored by Debbie & Fred through WV, and the reason for our visit here.
After formal greetings with the headmaster, Debbie handed out some gifts to the school - soccer ball and pump, pens and pencils, stickers, post-it notes, etc. She gave a special denim book bag to Selasia's English teacher, who proudly accepted it and we saw her walking home with it over her shoulder. Also, other teachers were looking through the supplies hungrily; there are virtually no supplies in the schools!