What started out with a miserable Monday turns into a miserable week, a few hours sunshine at noon and the rest grey and rain. Maybe its also me still fighting off some stomach bugs.

A few weeks ago I was at a workshop in Gisenyi, regular blog readers might remember this being a very popular place for workshops at the shore of Lake Kivu in the North West of Rwanda. We were working with a small group on a health financing and health insurance policy. On the way back I got a lift with 2 colleagues from the Ministry of Health in a rented landcruiser. We had only driven for 20 minutes when we had a flat tyre, great. So we get out, crowds of children and other bystanders gathered around and watched us. Then I saw this one kid carrying a younger brother or sister on her back and I remembered how a few months earlier I had given a mini kikoy (sarong) to my friend's daughter. I showed her different ways of wrapping it including the technique for tying babies to your back. As she was expecting a little baby brother at the time I also told her that in Rwanda children her age would often carry their siblings around that way and she was amazed by that. According to my friend she walked around the flat with the kikoy wrapped around her for weeks after that. So, Lisa-Marie and Franzi, this is what it looks like.