More torrential rain, not at all what we were expecting. And it is very difficult to see the kids running around in the rain, compared to the sunshine. Maybe there is a sense of immunity that the heat of the sun can give that the rain just washed away. The rain rivers flow by, gushing, pieces of wood and debris and for a second it seems like the prospect for these kids are gushing down into the gutters with the water.

Everyone is having a bit of a tough time today, building materials are wet when we go to pick them up. Roofing and block laying is more difficult and treacherous. The slabbing boards are damp so it is more difficult to put them up. But the impact on us is nothing compared to what the rain (unprecedented amounts) has done to the shacks. One team was so distraught watching a women try to bail water from her shack that they helped by digging a trench around to drain the water and put a better piece of corrugated iron on the roof. She is getting a house, but does not know when, at least the fix up might last for a little bit.

The Royal Blue team are still in good spirits but you can see the affect of our surroundings, emotions are raw and the slightest thing with a child outside can set the hardest builders to cry! It is the kids that have the affect, especially the AIDS kids you can tell them by their runny noses - you know their prospects are practically zero and that they may not make it to see moving to a house, going to school or any of the other things we take for granted...