Last Work Day

It’s about 8:20am on Friday, our last work day. It’s hard to believe that we’ve only been here 7 days, and in the same way it seems like we’ve only just arrived. The past few days have been amazing, the difference in the village is incredible! When we first visited Redemption, many houses were unpainted or stained with dirt, wood blocks attached to chains served as swings and had caused many injuries, the field that the children played in was tall and in disarray with mud puddles, rocks, and trash strewn about the grass. The basketball backboards were decayed and had no rims.

Now, the village is beautiful! There are concrete path ways leading the way to brightly colored houses, the grass has been cut and the trash and muck raked away. The wooden swings are now the traditional plastic swings you would see in your backyards! New backboards with rims were put up and mini soccer goals placed beneath them. Though these improvements are short-term, hopefully our impact on them, and their impact on us will be long-lasting.

In the time that I have written this, mosquitoes have attacked me, and I’m missing our team devotion so I have to stop, but hopefully I will be able to update later today after lunch, it all depends on the internet. I would post pictures, but they take too long to upload, but I promise to post an album when we get back home.