3rd May 2022
This week was an increasingly busy one, which is one reason why I haven’t written anything. Additionally there was no internet because my colleague in HUMAES was attending a workshop in Juba and took the Wifi with him. The situation in Nimule has calmed right down, thank God. Families are returning from Uganda and schools are functioning. Each day this week a further twenty pupils reappeared, building up to a total of 130 on Friday. This is still well below our normal attendance, but at least formal teaching was able to start. We have been operating only in the mornings in case of security issues, which have tended to happen later in the day. Workmen have been busy plastering one block of classrooms, which left us with half the normal number of rooms. That meant that there were only four available classrooms for eight classes. We had to ‘budge up’ and put two classes in each room. As a result our normal timetable could no...