What a month at the White Eagle Project...

The 2010 Sponsorship Challenge is well underway as we try to recruit more sponsors to help the children of Nyendo - if you know anyone who would like to sponsor a child, please get in touch!

In the meantime... March has been quite a month! First of all we had a small fire in the Girls Home - faulty electrics meant a light fitting started behaving more like a firework. The girls were petrified, but thanks to the quick thinking of Thirsa the electrics were quickly switched off and no one was hurt. The Girls Home is rented, and although definitely one of the best houses in Nyendo, in Uganda there aren't the strict standards for Landlords to keep to so we're at risk. The good thing is that our Fire Drill has been tested (and improved upon!) and everyone now knows how serious the risks are, and all the electrics have been checked out and fixed. Then poor Ernest, one of the White Eagle Boys, was knocked over by a car on his way home from school - he wasn't badly injured but did stay the night in hospital under observation. Roads and driving in Uganda are an absolute nightmare, but that incident has driven home how careful we need to be. We're thankful that noone has been badly hurt - it's a testament to our staff and to the White Eagles that these kind of things happen so rarely.

However, twice in one week's a bit much, and it's prompted us (along with other recent events) to get cracking with something we've wanted to do or a LONG time - set up the River of Life Prayer NET - a network of people praying regularly with and for River of Life, the White Eagle Project and particularly for Duncan and Mary. You can read more about it here, and if you're interested, please do get in touch by email.

As well as the accidents, there's more positive news. Mercy and Jonah and settling in well at Nursery (don't they look smart in their uniforms!), and we enjoyed a fabulous visit by Sarah's parents for a week. As it's school term time the staff are getting plenty of training in, and we've introduced new practices that help the White Eagles develop. We're also working on a new Team Document that sets out the vision, our goals, our values and all the rules and procedures that make us tick along nicely!