Sister Mary V received a call from Terry today, Feb. 2, his birthday! He was waiting for Charles to pick him up for dinner, suspecting he would have some of the children with him for a bit of a celebration. He has been VERY BUSY getting the children in school. Some of them have outgrown their clothes…among other things. Nadine had been there helping with some of the medical problems. They have only been able to take care of 10 or 12 children a day, but hope to have all of them in school by Friday. Charles and Jackie are also helping. All the children have written letters to their sponsors. “Next year we’ll have the team come later so they can help with this process.”
He’s been negotiating with the headmaster before he pays the fees for the new students. He wants to ensure they all will be fed more nutritiously. “They need more vegetables,” reports Terry. They have only been getting beans and posha. He’d like them to set up a vegetable garden at the school and he will be teaching them drip irrigation to make this possible.
Terry had visited the Tender Mercies’ garden that the team had worked on while they were there, and was pleased to see that in a week’s time there was corn, cucumbers, cabbages growing up.
And there is good news about the CONTAINER! Terry reported it was now in Uganda at the Port of Authorities. Nadine is there supervising. They do have to unload everything and inspect, but they don’t anticipate any surprises.
Final message…a big thank you to everyone back home!