Orphanage, construction, & dinner



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Water barrels at Orphanage.

Today we visit the Orphanage which is next to our location.  It is really nice, and of course everyone gives to it.  It has three barrels for collecting rain, nice nice grounds & buildings.  They are promised money for a talapia farm if they will furnish the quarters we are in with fish when there are visitors. Good for them and good for our place which they are trying to make a meeting house and quarters for other visitors.  There is another being built, our house will be the new Bishop's home.

Next we stop at the Methodist headquarters.  They are also building a new building. The concrete is dumped in a pile. Men then shovel it to a step, and the men there shovel it up to next step, and up to the platform.  It is then shoveled into wheelbarrel and pushed to the form they are filling.  The scaffolding here is pretty straight.  I saw lots of scary building sites.  Our workers would never use them.  And the govt would be shutting it down! 

As we travel down the road we again see men on rock piles along side of the road.  We are told a pile of rock is dumped, then for a living, individuals sit on top of these rock and break them into small rocks used for the roads. Also some donkey carts, some with oxen.  Bicycles with 6 plastic carts piled high, motorcyles with 5 & 6 people on them, including babies or small children. 

We see more women's groups and another school.  Lots of supplies to deliver. 

Tonight's dinner is at the Assoc bishop.  Spaggetti with the carrot, pea and meat dish again.  It is their staple.  Also some fruit, the 'tea',  sweet potato (it's white not yellow) served plain, arrowroot and corn (field corn past picking time). Her husband is in Korea for 3-4 years of study.

We've given to the ladies groups panties, patterns and washable sanitary napkins (girls have to stay home during these days) chickens, goats, scarfs and bags for shopping and paid for talapia farms.

The schools have received pens, pencils, crayons, soccer ball, frisbees and sometimes money.  We still have lots to deliver.