We played "sculptionary" with the kids using playdough and they loved making fun shapes (like trees, a family, a bike, etc.). Too cute!
Tom & Lydia helped school kids write thank you letters to USA sponsors.
Isn't this picture of Anna and a little girl so sweet?
This lady from the church and ministries was one of several who so kindly cooked for us each day, in a tin building (an oven!!!) with smoking cook fires... and they do it every day for the school children!
Although the area has one well to serve about 500-600 people, it actually serves about 1200 people and the original well may dry up too fast with the overuse. So Church of God is drilling another well nearby, hoping to offset the incredible need of the area.
Several of our guys tried pumping water at the church well. Each day, imagine when instead of turning on a tap in your kitchen or bathroom, you have to first walk 5 to 20 minutes with some "jerry cans" (plastic containers) to the well. Then you wait in line (usually at least 5 people in front of you in the line), then pump water, and then struggle carrying the full jerry cans back to your home. But use only a small amount and be careful to not waste ANY, since the process will have to be repeated if the jerry cans get empty.
Weaving strips to make mats.
With so many of us on the team plus workers from the property, we soon ran out of enough dishes. I had the privilege of eating off a soapstone decorative dish one day.. which probably could make you ill if you did it all the time. The typical Ugandan meal on that colorful dish is: cooked cabbage, beans and rice, sweet potatoes, cooked bananas called matooke, covered with peanut gravy they call g-nut (ground nut) sauce.
