Colin said it was encouraging to find the churches were still strong and growing.
He said: ?Travel took us through the forests, avoiding monkeys in the road, to Lake Kivu and the Congo.?
There they met churches and planned a clinic at Bukavu.
?We found poverty a tremendous obstacle to progress. We have been determined not to build anything ?Kings or Tavistock? and to encourage them to be responsible and to own the project,? he said.
Colin said the concept was proving difficult because the general experience in Rwanda has been the white man arriving to promote his denomination or company.
?He has invested and paid wages, so our vision has been new and difficult to accept. We try to encourage crafts, businesses, schools, dispensaries and clinics so they can be self-supporting,? said Colin.
The short three-week visit left them excited and encouraged with the progress they saw at various churches, schools and clinics.
He appealed for people in the Tavistock area to continue to support the GLAM project by donating unwanted tools or equipment.
?Teachers that could spend a couple of weeks or more to teach the teachers, to teach crafts and how to use our tools, to teach hygiene and nursing care to nurses, particularly business people that could teach administration, organisation, budgeting would be invaluable.?
GLAM would also be interested in hearing from schools that would like to twin with a developing school and even visit to build links.
Donations of transport, from bicycles to land-rovers, money, man-power to go and build clinics, schools are all constantly required to continue the work of GLAM, also desperately needed is storage for all the gifts donated by hospitals, schools, councils and business.
Colin and Derek said they wished to thank everyone who has supported GLAM.
Any help will be gratefully received by Derek on Tav 834465 or Colin on 833844 or visit http://www.kingsnews.org.uk">www.kingsnews.org.uk for more information.