Beware innocent phone calls

What a difference a phone call can make! Last winter I was enjoying a cozy evening in when I had a call from my friend David to see if I thought he'd make a good builder. He had spotted a project in Uganda with Mission Direct that he quite liked the look of, and wondered how it would compare with similar projects that I'd been on in Kenya and Guyana. And then I spotted the "Specialist Trips" and got curious, and things just rolled from there.

All my jabs are up to date, and it seemed a waste not to use them so I'm now joining the team lined up to install PCs in 5 schools in Zambia that Mission Direct has been building over the years. I wasn't too sure that I have the right skills (I'm not that tekkie), but apparently I do (oh dear - am I a geek?) and so it seems to me that this will be much better use of my skills than brick laying (I've done enough of that for the moment, thank you). And David is going on the project in Uganda (it seems that he'll be helping with holiday clubs, so nothing to worry about on the brickie front), so a double result for Mission Direct!