Kising'a Visit

I had a wonderful visit with our partnership village last weekend. I visited the secondary school, Ifingo, where we left a computer on our trip in June. I was pleased to see that they have been using it with students. Ifingo is a new government school currently with just Form I and Form II students. The classrooms are beautifuly constructed and they are building dorms and classes for advanced level Forms V and VI. The plan is to start advanced level for girls in two years. This will be the top school for the Ward. I brought a projector and computer for the primary school in 2023 and that is also being used with students and is in good condition. The Ward officer gave a letter to the parish thanking them for these gifts.

I drove myself for the weekend and that enabled me to go out to Sargent Mdegala's avocado farm. He makes grafts of Hass avocado on a local species that grows well. He has more than 300 trees in several plots and an Avocado factory in Iringa comes up and harvests them for making oil and export. He also grafts avocado seedlings for a tree project in Iringa and was the person who discovered a spring and laid pipe to bring water to the village. St Paul Partners installed a 3000 gallon tank for that water and Sargent maintains it.

The women of the church were meeting and have a rustic kitchen next to the church. In june they were given some money from the women at our church and used it to buy 8 piglets.

In June they told us they wanted to build a new house for the pastor. The current house has an X on it because it is too close to where someday the government wants to expand the road. Has been this way for more than 10 years. Any way, the main reason is they want to use the current house, which is quite nice, as a guest house to earn money for the church. This would be for Tanzanian guests and there is no place like that in Kising'a. They started digging for the foundation and have saved contributions we have made for the last three years to start this project.

The view from the new location is nice and the white house on the hill left center with blue in the windows is the house former pastor Pastor Wihale is building for his retirement on Nov. 8.