UPDATES AND REQUESTS

The world is truly a small place! Last week I had the pleasure of working with and getting to know a group of people from Bedford, VA! One couple, whom I had never met, lives just down the road from my home - how strange that I would meet them on the other side of the world here in Jinja! I was able to go out to one of the villages with them and help run a medical clinic for a day and spend a couple of evenings at their guest house. A couple of the younger girls spent a day with me visiting Amani and the local hospitals. They brought me a video camera so I can capture more of my life here to share with you when I come home.


There has been some money donated to help the people I work with. After a lot of thought and prayer I think that we should dig a borehole, which is a deep well where people can get clean water right from the tap. The villages where I work with Suubi have no source of fresh drinking water. Because of this, the people are sickly and have to travel distances to buy water. Most of them cannot afford it and have no transportation other than walking so they end up drinking water that we would not consider using to mop our kitchen floors with. When I was painting in Danita I had to bring “jerry-cans” of water just to wash out the paint brushes. Please pray that the rest of the money can be raised and that all the details will come together so that the bore hole can be finished before I leave. The estimate that I have been given is about $3,500 American dollars; I have $1,000 towards the project so am looking to raise an additional $2,500. I am proceeding with arrangements to begin work on this end in faith that the money will be raised as the process to do anything here is soooooo slow! Any project here takes forever – we have a saying here, “TIA”; this is Africa!


Please be in prayer for a little girl who has hydrocephalus, a condition where your head is about 3 times its normal size. This little girl is only 1 and her head is bigger than mine. Katie and I are looking into a hospital here that specializes in a procedure to put tubes in her head to drain the fluid. We want to get more information about hydrocephalus and the treatment, and between the two of us we are going to pay for her to have this surgery. Please pray that her surgery will be successful. If not, this girl will never be able to walk or talk and she will probably die very young.

Thanks so much