Singing in the rain!

We arrived back to find that Kisiizi had had a very long dry spell and fires had broken out on the hillside where the hospital has some eucalyptus plantations which we hope to harvest in the near future.  We looked out of our window just after 6am to see 4 different fires on the hill opposite.  

 In addition there were power cuts to the residences every evening as there just was not enough water to generate the hydro power needed [though thankfully the hospital supply was fine].

So we sent out emails to many supporters asking for prayers for rain.  Thank you to all who joined us in this….. we were blessed with a good downpour which put out all the fires and topped up the river so the power was more reliable.

One issue is the increased use of land in the valley above Kisiizi which means less water flows down the river to us.  The historic papyrus swamps which have acted as natural reservoirs have been gradually eroded by more land being claimed for crops along many miles of the valley.   

However it does seem that the recent dry spell was extreme and certainly we had had no similar problem in the previous year.