The first thing you see when you are at the Rwanda/Congo border is this....what are your guesses? What do you think they are carrying....?
Sunday, November 17, 2013
23 days until I leave for the Congo...
Even the trip is memorable.....different places, sights, sounds.....the two 8 hour flights back-to-back are tiring. At the end of it, I am 8 hours 'out of whack', my nights are days and visa versa. The snow packed roads of home are exchanged for the ??? roads of Congo. Food is very different (better?), certainly more FRESH fruit, and fresh everything!
The first thing you see when you are at the Rwanda/Congo border is this....what are your guesses? What do you think they are carrying....?
The first thing you see when you are at the Rwanda/Congo border is this....what are your guesses? What do you think they are carrying....?
23 days until I leave for the Congo...
Even the trip is memorable.....different places, sights, sounds.....the two 8 hour flights back-to-back are tiring. At the end of it, I am 8 hours 'out of whack', my nights are days and visa versa. The snow packed roads of home are exchanged for the ??? roads of Congo. Food is very different (better?), certainly more FRESH fruit, and fresh everything!
The first thing you see when you are at the Rwanda/Congo border is this....what are your guesses? What do you think they are carrying....?
The first thing you see when you are at the Rwanda/Congo border is this....what are your guesses? What do you think they are carrying....?
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
4,000,000........
that is the estimated number of orphans in the DRC. Sometimes we have the great privilege of feeding a few.....
4,000,000........
that is the estimated number of orphans in the DRC. Sometimes we have the great privilege of feeding a few.....
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Thursday, October 24, 2013
challenge...(again)....
nearly two million people live on less than a dollar a day! I have seen some of them. Can you imagine it...fasting frequently, or buying food for the family, worth less than a dollar. Your drink of choice is water.... boiled.... only if you can afford the charcoal...driving anywhere is out of the question.....everything is walking. I have seen women and children walking many miles each day to come into the city to sell their fish, or vegetables, and then walk all the way back home, to repeat the process the next morning. A family member at home is catching more fish or searching for more vegetables to sell, because, at the end of the day, they will have done well to come home with that dollar.
I'm sorry that it is such a tale of grief....I know you would probably rather not hear it.....
I would rather that it did not exist as a problem, and I try not to look at my lifestyle, because the contrast cries out....
It has been suggested that it would be better if I had never gone.....! As though not looking is a solution.
My husband and I remain committed to making a difference....bringing comfort & aid....one person at a time....somewhere in the process is a joy that cannot be described.....
Will you help?
I'm sorry that it is such a tale of grief....I know you would probably rather not hear it.....
I would rather that it did not exist as a problem, and I try not to look at my lifestyle, because the contrast cries out....
It has been suggested that it would be better if I had never gone.....! As though not looking is a solution.
My husband and I remain committed to making a difference....bringing comfort & aid....one person at a time....somewhere in the process is a joy that cannot be described.....
Will you help?
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