FAVL in Uganda - quick update

I visited the library [Kitengesa] on June 30 especially in order to meet with the women. They were full of their work for the FLP and had brought their pictures and books to show me. They had two requests for me: would I please look at their notebooks every three months or so to see how they are doing, and would I visit them all in their homes about that often as well? Of course, I can't do it that often, but it's nice to be asked, and I'll definitely try to make the home visits in August before I leave. And now I'm just back from travelling in the Western Region, where I've seen three flourishing rural information centres, learned about two defunct ones, and discovered a priest in a particularly remote parish who wants to set up a community library. We have 64 member libraries in UgCLA, some 60 of which have said they're sending a representative to attend the workshop that begins tomorrow. So it continues ...