Final Day in our Home in Rwanda

Well golly (as I have been teased for saying by all three of my teammates)!! Today was our final day in Cyanika! The time has completely flown by!! I can't believe that we are already almost on our way home!

Today was a produtive day!

We began the day by teaching a lesson on personal hygene and water conservation to the kiddos at Munini. We were able to show them the water samples we had taken the day before and what clean and drinkable tested water looked like versus what unpottable water looked like. We had samples of what some bad water looked like (a black liquid) and what boiled water looked like (a tannish liquid). It was exciting to explain to the kids what the difference between the two viles were and to give them a visual representation of the importance of always boiling their water prior to drinking it. We were also able to talk about what to do with cuts, when to wear shoes and how to avoid getting headaches (by drinking lots of clean water). 

After we finished our lessons, we played some games with them. Christian tossed the frisbee around while Jake kicked the soccer ball and I played patty cake and gave airplane rides.

Soon after this, we headed down to the executive building for our meeting with the Community Vision Board. Overall, the meeting went very well! We discussed prices of the water at each site, who should be using the water and when, the goals each site had for the next time we came, and how to properly manage the money coming in from the selling of jerry cans. The members of the board had many insightful questions and comments and we were able to have good converstion about several of our key topics!

This evening we met with both Willy and the Executive of Cyankia. They joined us for a cup of tea and we caught up. 

As for tomorrow, we are headed back to Kigali! We will be doing some final material sourcing and some last minute gift shopping for friends and family at home! 

I will return to put some pictures into this blog, but the wifi isn't allowing me to do so tonight!

Much love and many hugs from Rwanda!
Nikki