Been here almost a month now!

Hey

So I have got just over a week and a half left at Urukundo in Rwanda to go and only one day left helping out at the school before the school holidays.

It has been great living in the same compound as all the kids, as well as being sticking with the same class at the school each day. It has allowed me to get to know the kids so much better than if I was just coming in for a few hours each day. Rather than just being known as some random Muzungu (white man) that they all swarm round, it has allowed me to hang out with just one or two of the kids at a time, playing a game, reading a book or helping with there homework and getting to know them a bit better. 

I managed to meet up with some of the friends I made last time I was here this week as well. It was great to see them again. I had an amazing meal around Bosco's house and got to meet his family (as well as having freshly made passion fruit juice!), he has had a new baby since last time I was here. I also met up with another friend called Olive, she too has had a baby since I was last here but I didn't get chance to meet the baby as she was asleep, she is going to visit Urukundo on Friday which will be great to spend some more time with her.

Visiting Bosco has meant going into town a few times this week, each time passing Muhanga Prison as well as many people begging on the streets. It is sometimes easy to forget when living in a place like Urukundo, where the children are loved so much and cared for, about what life is like for those who don't have anyone looking out for them, not just in Rwanda but around the world. 

This has to be where the Church comes in. It is by far the largest network of communities in the world, situated in some of the darkest and most desperate places, and it has a mandate to care for the most vulnerable in society, love the least the last and the lost and seek justice. It is the Church falling in love with Jesus, and God's love bubbling out of it into the community around them that is going to bring about change that we so desperately need in the world.