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Kop Ango~? ようやく解除ですね～but
当方ハイリスク高齢者ですので、まだ当分は自粛しようと思っています、歯医者だけは、診療再開するそうですので、治療再開しようと思ってますが、うつるのも、うつすのもマズいので、県境を越えて横浜の母や九州の親類などに会いに行くのもまだまだ・・・ガマン！
Here in Japan the state of emergency has finally been lifted, but because we are high-risk senior citizens, we plan to continue to exercise self-restraint for
a while longer. The dental clinic will start seeing patients again, though, so I plan to resume my treatment. But we mustn’t catch the virus or give it to someone else, so we still have to
refrain from going out of the prefecture to visit my mother in Yokohama、Kanagawa Pref. and relatives in Kyushu for a while longer.
図書館スタッフの一人Emmaとファーザー（私どもの借家のオーナー）からKtgの状況を伝えるメールと写真が来ました！
We received e-mail messages with a lot of pics from Emma who is a library staff member, and from Fr.Anthony, our landlord. They are telling us about the situation in Kitgum.
Ktgでは、Emma(3月から大学に通うはずだったけど...)、Isaac(今夏,大学入学申し込み申請を考えていたけど...)、Lawrence(A.2,なので近々授業が再開され、今年秋の終わり頃、国のセカンダリー卒業統一試験を受験することになりそう...)たちが、時々子供たちの相手をしてくれたり、フェンス越しに図書館の様子を見に行ってくれたり、INｔネットカフェで、メールをくれたり...有難いです。
In Kitgum Emma, who should have started university in March; Isaac, who was thinking about applying to university this
summer; and Lawrence, whose A.2 classes will resume soon and who will probably be able to take the unified examination for secondary school graduation in late fall, sometimes play with the
children, check on the situation at the library, and send us e-mail from an Internet café, for which we are grateful.
図書館 私どものKitgumの宿
UGでは、出入国完全禁止、国境も空港も閉鎖、罰則付きの厳しい行動制限下、現在までの感染者数300人程度、その大多数は、物資運送の長距離ドライバーたちだそうです。死者はゼロとのこと。Ktgでも、日の出から夕方まで、Ktg県内に限り行動自由、ただし移動手段は徒歩と自転車のみOK。県をまたいでの移動は、治安当局の許可を得た生活必需物資の運搬車両等だけ可。品薄のため物価高騰、1，5倍～ほどと！。
They said that what with the travel ban, the closure of the borders and airports, and the strict restrictions on activities that carry penalties, so far there have
been only 300 coronavirus cases and no deaths in Uganda. In Kitgum, people are allowed to move freely within the Kitgum District only from dawn ’til dusk and only on foot or by bicycle. Travel
outside the district is only allowed as permitted by the security authorities for activities such as transporting daily necessities. Because there is a shortage of goods, prices have soared to
1.5 times the usual.
小学校はP.7（Primary7）、高校はO.4とA.2(Ordinary４とAdvance２)が再開されたそうです。今年度私どもの支援生徒には該当者がいません。他は既に3か月以上登校無し、FMラジオによる補修授業あり。が、当方支援子供の家庭やその周辺では電気がないのが普通なので、利用は難しい。子供たちの大多数は、政府の『感染の可能性がさらに低く、収穫時期が近く食べ物にありつきやすい奥の村々に行って農作業を手伝うように』との指導に沿い、疎開中。タウンに残っている数少ない子供たちは時々、Emmaたちのところに顔見せに来ていることようです（写真をご覧ください）。
At the primary school, seventh graders(P.7) have returned, and at the high school classes have resumed for students in Ordinary 4(O.4) and Advanced 2(A.2). This
school year there are no students in those grades among those supported by the library. The other students have already been out of school for more than three months. Lessons are available via FM
radio, but there is typically no electricity in the homes of our students or in their areas, so the children can’t take advantage of the lessons. Most of them have followed the government’s
recommendation to evacuate to more rural villages where the likelihood of infection is lower and where food is readily available. The few children who remain in town sometimes come to see Emma
and other staff members. (See photos.)
Aber Fortunate Omara James Pikica Marvine
Agenorwot Mercy Oyella Aketowanga Beatrice
