Please God, not Africa!

Sorry it's been so long since I've written - the internet has been especially lousy over the last couple of weeks.  In order to create a new post, I have to have a long stretch of time with decent internet to upload the photos, then write the post and then actually publish it.  This is no five-minute task, my friends!! But there's much to tell you, so enough excuses already.  Here's what we've been up to: CONSTRUCTION! The houses are coming along great.  Nate and Bruce have been working hard with the Togolese men. House #1 now has the trusses on and House #2 has walls to the roof line and window frames going in.  The crew hopes to have House #1 completed by the end of April!  That's some great timing if it all works out like that.  To think that we got here in mid-November and it was just getting started.  We had to wait for the container from the USA to arrive (which it did, just a couple of days after my birthday which meant that I had the...

It's been another busy week in Mango.  And I have lots of photos to share, showing you the ins and outs of life here.... Construction update: I mean, really, that's why we're here in the first place so it seems a pretty good place to start.  Remember that the plan is for Nate to help build 2 (or possibly 3) homes for doctors who will be arriving to work at the Hospital of Hope full time.  When we arrived in November, House #1 was simply a foundation.  Here it is today - I just took this photo this afternoon.  Now that looks like a house! The next thing to go on would be roof trusses. The trusses are almost complete (they build them here) and then they'll put them up. After that, roof steel goes on, interior walls get built and so on.  There is a container coming from the USA with most of the construction material required to continue building the house - the good news is that this container is supposed to arrive this week!  Jus...