Doug and Sandra arrived this morning to travel with Steve
and I to Jamwelly. Fiona is still at
Nemasu and was staying alone for the 2 days we are away. We loaded the personal items onto the truck
and set off on the south bank for the ferry crossing at Soma. The travelling is much easier now that the
road is finished and we managed to reach the ferry without incident, there was
more traffic than there has been over the last few weeks and we queued for an
hour before crossing. In Farafenni we
went for our usual lunch of omelette sandwich and coffee before buying
vegetables for our evening meal. Steve
and Doug shopped for rice and potatoes and we packed them on the truck and set
off for Kaur. The road is not busy in
this part of the country, we just have to look out for donkeys, sheep, cattle
and goats running across the road. We
arrived in Kaur and went straight to the Lower
Basic School
where the builders are converting the old meeting room into a library, the
windows and tiles were off loaded and then Steve and I went into the town with
Kebba to source timber and corrugate for the roof repairs. This proved to be a fruitless exercise and we
need to go to Farafenni tomorrow, which is a much larger town and more likely
to stock what we need. We went back to
the school, inspected the work done so far by the builders and then set off to
Jamwelly to spend the night in the school.
The journey takes us across the main road and onto a dirt track to the
village, just as we arrived at the dirt track we found a small group of boys
torturing a very small puppy, very tightly tying bands of cloth to its back
legs and dragging it through the dirt on its stomach. They said they wanted to kill it! As you can imagine as animal lovers we
stopped and rescued the tiny puppy which was squealing loudly and obviously
terrified. I picked it up and we took it
in the car to the school where we were able to discover that its legs were not
broken, but just badly bruised, but the puppy was traumatised and very frightened.. We found an old banana box and made it into a bed,
much to the amusement of Channeh the head teacher. (dogs here sleep in the sand or wherever they can find) Doug, Sandra and Steve went off on a bird
walk whilst I stayed at the school with the puppy which is too small to be away
from it’s mother, and waited for Kebba to arrive to sort the wages. The puppy went to sleep and seemed to settle
down, so we have decided to give it to the school for the pupils to look after
and learn about animal welfare. Kebba arrived and we sorted out the wages and the bills for the week. The building work should be finished by Wednesday. The wanderers returned and we all had dinner
before retiring for the night.
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