We thought rather than show the usual sort of photos of the training, we'd feature what a difference rain makes to life and how things look.
Ugandans would disagree! Without rain, you wouldn't see a field transform from the picture above (taken from the church looking at the house) to the pictures below (taken from the house looking at the church)!
Now of course, everything has pros and cons. Most people already know about what the rain does to dirt roads. No need to post again!
However, the onset of the rains have other effects. One example is that many of our participants, unfortunately, were quite late reporting to our training - and this is partly due to people busy with garden work. One man was 4 days late! (He will need to repeat).
Another effect is the strong winds that come with the rains. You can see below a picture taken during TOT1, which shows the building on the right is where the men were going to sleep for TOT2.
But like we said - pros and cons! We took the opportunity to make it a teaching moment. Mike called over the CHE Trainers (most of whom don't treat their drinking water in any way) while he was cleaning the filter. There was lots of nervous laughter when people saw the brown sludge coming out the back end of the filter unit!