Looking Back and Looking Forward

Mount Meru from Olasiti

The past six months have been gratifying, as we've seen the walls of the new orphanage going up, with the help of local laborers, volunteers, and the kids themselves.  Imagine: clean water! electricity! Solar is an option. Banana and mango trees are growing. Two secondary students now have bicycles of their own.  Three cameras and computers have been donated.  Fifty-two students are attending school on scholarships.  Joseph is in advanced secondary (what we would call junior college)!  Our friend Gloria is in Tanzania now, opening a clinic in another village; in Olasiti she is producing a "Kids with Cameras" exhibit, and planning an auction of the photos.

Next June's service trip is in the works:  teaching English in the village school, and working on orphanage construction.  Are you ready to get muddy and change lives?