Saturday, May 14, 2011

Mzungu!

Ole Otye! This week has been great and very busy! We spent the past 5 days exploring and finding potential NGO's to work with. We visited orphanages, hospitals, and several other wonderful places. We cut the heads off chickens for dinner, collected white ants to eat(but couldn't find enough)and so many new things. It's slowly beginning to feel like home. The jet lag is slowly wearing off but the guilt of what I own so freely back home never seems to leave. We visited a small village yesterday and upon arrival they welcomed us with song and dance all by homemade devices. The people are so talented in what they know. We have a couple great ideas on some projects both near and far and will be submited proposals soon and im so ready to get started. So much work to do, and feels like only a "drop in da ocean" they say, but everybody is so happy we are here. We have secured a compound next to some crazy South Africans that LOVE us and there our new friends when there sober. There has been some political issues with Museveni and the election which caused us to come in early but were all safe and well. Were all becoming experts with playing cards since that's about all we have to do every night but our team is awesome and we love it here. Were slowly making way and finding local leaders who own there own dreams. They strong individuals are the future to find a way out of the slums. Yesterday we visited 1100 kids (many orphans) in the slum living where ever they find a place. The leader Kenneth of a NGO opened so many ways we can introduce some new ways to childrens and were excited to start working there, Life is great. Perfect I should say. More to come and thanks for the support!

1 comment:

Duncan said...

Devin - you are AWESOME!! You're sister and brother-in-law showed me your blog - you seriously make me feel proud to be amongst your friends!