Saturday, March 28, 2015

A hole of great importance…


The latrine hole is DUGE! Now it needs to be covered so that when I rains it will not fill in. Monday and Tuesday the guys would like to work on sealing the hole. Then April 1st the guys will be given a small vacation for Easter.


   

To help us finish the latrine we will need $1,500 US to purchase the cement to seal the hole and then put a roof on it.  

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Thursday, March 26, 2015

An education in WATER…


  When everyone around you in great necessity of WATER how do you share some of what you have been given?


 9,000 gallons is a lot of water. Samuel designed a lock box for the water tap. 

   
  


This way water can be shared and not taken and still be enough for the trees. 

Friday, March 20, 2015

a hope and a future...


Yesterday Manis sat down with some of the guys who are working on the land. They are still digging out the latrine and just finished preparing the land for the time when it DOES rain. Manis asked the guys what they wanted out of life. Their response was to learn how to live a better life and not just to learn things in a class room but to learn things from older and wiser people.



Developing the land is only a part of the work. Nothing happens quickly and the guys working with Samuel are also learning things that will give them a better quality of life.

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Wednesday, March 18, 2015


 80 plus years Grann has lived here on the Plateau. 



She has seen years of plenty and years of want. For Grann, hope returned when she saw her grandson return to the Plateau with a message that God had not abandoned them. The changes that happened after Manis moved here were significant.



NOW IT WAS TIME for Grann to see Samuel’s land!!!


“The LORD has given me the strength to walk today and so I will go”, she told us. Her legs took her the distance to the land and as she entered the gate a smile crossed her face. 

When she saw Samuel they sat together on the porch of the water house and talked. She told Samuel that now he will always have a place to return to.



May they all see that they have a place to come back to, where life has returned and where they know that God has NOT ABANDONED THEM.

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Monday, March 16, 2015

Coming together…



Every Monday morning Samuel meets with the development staff to share with them the goal for the upcoming week. The guys working on the land are a part of this weekly meeting. 


The work on the cistern will stop till we have the funds to put on the roof. Right now it’s a HUGE help for the guys to have access to water to water the trees. 

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Friday, March 13, 2015

We have WATER!!!

This morning the tap was turned on!!!



Last night at 9:15PM Samuel took the water truck to the land and put WATER in our NEW CISTERN!!! 


More water was just pumped up to the cistern!

 Samuel’s Father, Mother, and brother Joel are here for the month. Four others of Samuel’s friends are here to help with a project for the church.  

Samuel and his father...



Samuel's Dad and Mom



The men working on the land continue to push hard to see this project a reality. 

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