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Bridget's Bunia Blog 37

Bridget's Bunia Blog 37

WIDOWS

ISP/CECA-20 is looking to recruit a team of widows. The successful candidates will be able to bother officials and wear them out by their constant coming. They will possess ardour and a strong sense of justice in order to present the school's request for timely attention to documentation

what the day whatever the how.

COMPETENT QUANTITY SURVEYOR

We are not building a tower but we do seek someone competent to estimate the cost of our building to see if we have enough money to complete it. We do not want to expose ourselves to ridicule by starting to build and not being able to

Urgently Needed :The Blessing of the Lord

Unless the Lord builds the house, its

WISE BUILDERS

We are looking to hire builders who are competent to erect buildings that will endure. So that when the flood comes and the torrent strikes, the termites crawl and the Rift Valley rumbles, the school will still be standing.

There is an ample supply of rocks in the vicinity.

SITE MANAGER

ISP/CECA-20 is looking to recruit a committed and competent site manager to oversee a building project in the town of Bunia. This is a senior position reporting to the Diecteur General of the college.

The successful card date will hold an ON* degree. (* order of Nehemiah)

• He will have a proven back record of honesty, integrity, good time-keeping, bargaining ability and excellent interpersonal skills.

• He will display good judgement in detracting building supplies and equipment and be impervious to bribes.

• He will be able to retain and motivate staff-masons, carpenters, cement-mixers, drivers, painters-during a period of frenzied rebuilding in the town.

• Possession of documents proving the backing of high authorities would be especially propitious.

• But more importantly, the successful candidate will be confident that the gracious hand of his God is upon him.

• Experience of riding a donkey is not necessary.

Further particulars are available in "How I Built the City walls" by Nehemiah ben Hacaliah obtainable at www.amazon.co.uk or at all good bookshops.

ISP/CECA-20 - PROMOTING CHALLENGE and CASSE-TETE

All applications should be sent to The Directeur Général at ispceca20@gmail.com

Only short-listed candidates will be notified.

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About Bridget Howard

Bridget Howard’s first recollection of Africa is being shown slides of termite hills in the Belgian Congo during a Sunday school class. “From a young age I had a sense of purpose from God that I would one day teach in Africa”.

Bridget is not one to freely give out her age but it occasionally does slip out that she first went to Congo to work 26 years ago when the country was still called Zaïre. Her first assignment was as a teacher at Rethy Academy, the Mission’s school for children of its members. Her next assignment was as a school inspector in Zandeland where, as she puts it, she: “cycled around inspecting teachers and outside toilets of the church schools!”

Following evacuation from Congo as a result of the fighting that errupted around the Great Lakes in the wake of the Rwandan genocide, Bridget worked at Aim’s International Office in Bristol. She returned to Congo in 2005 to teach English at the Institut Supérieur Pédagogique in Bunia. The ISP exists to prepare students to teach at secondary schools run by the CECA-20, Aim’s partner church in Congo.

Since her return Bridget has been sending her ‘blog’. She admits that ‘composition’ was not a favourite lesson when at secondary school but writing has become less of a chore as she told friends back in the UK of her daily experiences of life in Africa. “Maybe it’s an exalted sense of my own importance as being ‘From Our Own Correspondent-like’ I can pretend to be Aim’s very own Kate Adie!”