Thursday night I took the hard decision to fire one of my workers, the one that was with us from the beginning, family of my wife. Our relation was troubled for some time and I had my reasons to fire him. I gave him UGX 1.000.000,- to make a fresh start somewere else.

So one worker left, Joseph. We dont know him very well but he was a hard worker, he was working with us for 1.5 year now, and I trusted him. THAT WAS A MISTAKE.

Next morning Joseph started to work as usual, first brought the cow to a place were they had enough grass and than helping the builders.

When I came back from my short walk with coffee in the forrest, I diddend saw Joseph he was not with the builders anymore.

When I came in the house I saw my bedroom was open and yes my litle safe was gone, toghetter with Joseph.

All my money, pasport, ID, bankcards, everything was stolen.

I went with one of the builders to the police station in Kiwoko, they wrote done everything. Are you going to search now was my question, because there were 3 patrol cars in front of the office and about 10 coffee drinking policeman. But that was wrong thinking of me, searching was a very expencive thing, petrolcars, manpower. They were not asking but I had to pay, Joseph just stool everything, I had NOTHING left.

Back home there was a nice surprise, when I was at the police station Joseph came back to my house and trough a bag with all my papers in front of the door and ran back in to the bushes. The builder that saw it happen was ofcourse to afraid to follow him.

After a phonecall with Agnes, she send me 50 euro with Western Union so atleast I had some money in the pocket.

After this last ( it was UGX 3.500.000,-) I had to go to work. I had to do everything alone now, first I had to find the cow and bring them back to the prairy and then take care of all the other animals. 

And I had to prepare things for the house, I was making concrete beams for above the doors and windows; see next pic.

After I finished the beams I had to make the roof constructions, because the builders were going fast.

Next day 1 new worker was coming and I was willing to give it a try, atleast he could take care of the animals.

2 days later my second worker will come, he worked for me before but was chased away by the worker that I fired now. He was happy to come back.

In the meantime the builders were rushing. 

I worked hard to finish the roofconstructions on time, I had to make 11 of them.

In one of my breaks, I always walk a bit in the forrest to clear the mind, I met this little guy.

I had to hurry with the roofconstruction.

 For the last one they had to wait a bit.

They brought the HDPE tank and we were putting it in.

After some arguing with the builders during this week, they made the doors to the bedrooms to small, they wanted to do the roof different and so on, the week ended peacefull in my head thanks to the BAMBOO. I had two workers again, next week we put the roof on the houses and the windos and doors are ordered.

This shoot came just above the ground first day I was here, now about 2 meter.

Very soon the last episode of this trip.