Greeting everyone from Lunsar Sierra Leone
I am settling back in here and beginning to visit the villages. Two days ago we went to two of them. They were excited and courteous as always. I had hoped for small groups but it was not to be. More than 100 people turned out at the first village and more than 200 at the second one, even though there was a mix up on times at the second one and people had waited up to 6 hours for us to arrive. Thank heavens we had some good news to bring them! The schools supplies, the bicycles, the block making machine and the tractor all had them cheering.
I also suggested that I would like to see women more involved in the Community Development Teams and that we would like to start borrowing groups that would focus on individual projects and that would be solely for women. Somewhat to my surprise, the men seemed to strongly support this idea (so did the women). We agreed to add one woman per village to the Community Development Team and two from each village to the borrowing group for women. And by the next morning, all appointments had been made. They are extremely anxious to get started. So things are looking good so far. Now we just have to get our containers through customs which is the challenge for the next few days. I will write again as soon as I can.
Happy Holidays!
Jon
December 29th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Dear Jon,
It is great to follow your progress from afar. We look forward to hearing more from you.
Good luck with all,
John