It would seem that not all has blown over with the idea that we are Christians building a church, which was banded around last time I was here about 7 months ago, and prevented Rob and I visiting the school in over a month.

This time it is much the same; RBKS telling us that there rumors going around about us, and that problems will come because of my white presence. Sharmaji tells us that he made an agreement with the previous trouble makers saying that no white person would return to the school for 12 months. This is the first we’ve heard of that, and it is a completely ridiculous agreement anyway.

The funny thing is, none of the teachers knew about this problem until they were told by a friend of RBKS, no-one who we spoke to in the village knew about it until we asked them, and none of RBKS’s pawn fieldworkers knew either. It seems that the only people who know anything about it is RBKS, 120 km away in Jhadol…

That was yesterday. Today when we spoke to an RBKS fieldworker, we were told that there is a charity in Kotra (a town about 30 km from the school) that is having meetings saying that there is a Christian going about converting people, and thus rallying a nice bit of religious hatred, so we shall have to see what comes with that.

We had a good chat with a few key people of the village, and they said that if anything did happen, they would support the school and get the people of the village to support it too. When it comes down to it, the corrupt politicians rely on the little trouble makers for power, and the little trouble makers can’t make trouble for several hundred villagers very easily, we ‘ope.  Whatever happens, we want to get it sorted properly this time. If this is going to be a recurring issue, which could place the school in trouble further down the line, we need to know whether we should make that investment here or not.