A couple of extra pictures from Juba

Here is another photo from our last week in Juba, which a friend sent through after I had written the last blog post. This is the children and I having lunch with friends at the street cafe near MAF on the Wednesday lunch time: beans, rice and chapati were on our menu:

We often used to visit this cafe. Rather than sit out in the hot street at the rickety wooden tables, we would take away our chapatis and beans and return home to eat in the luxury of our air-conditioned house.
This used to be a thriving street cafe, very popular and often over-crowded. It was sad to see it less busy this time round. The previous owner fled during the July crisis and the new owner told me that she really struggles, with the difficult economic situation in the country. Another indicator of the changes in Juba since July.

Last week, Andrew spent his final full week in Juba. He had 3 days of flying, plus 2 days to complete the packing up and to empty the house. Our goods will follow us out of Juba once we get our Ugandan work permit; for now, they are in storage. Our old house has been left free for another MAF family to move in.
Just before Andrew left, he saw our house-lady Grace and met her new baby boy. I would have loved to have seen her myself to say goodbye properly and meet her little one, but circumstances in my final Juba week did not allow this to happen. So I will content myself with this great photo of Grace, baby Lado and Andrew: