ARCHIVE November, 2009

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Good news, funny stories, and people who get your humor…

November 6, 2009

We have four guys here from America, they are all staying with us for three days and then heading south to the orphanage to help out. Two of the three are going to be staying for the next three months and helping with things down on that end. We are relieved to have more people [...]

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Aaargh

November 5, 2009

I have the coolest pictures of the kids and the new children’s home that I have tried so many times to upload its making me sick…  I know how important pictures are and wish so much that I could get them on here but for some stinking reason they are not willing to upload.   [...]

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Update on that last post…

November 4, 2009

I re-read the last post and think that I might have made it sound a lot like we were desperate for money and loosing kids because of that. What I was trying to say is that we are thrilled to have a plan and ready and willing to get started on it. Lale is an [...]

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Stepping up

November 3, 2009

We have spent the last week talking with Lale and his wife Gido about the next steps for the orphanage, after the festival last month we are pretty sure that we are going to be getting more kids and are working out the details of how we would go about that. Lale has been working [...]

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Moo…

November 1, 2009

So get this, the kids drink about a gallon of milk a day and the only milk we can get here is powdered milk, and the powdered milk in the town where the orphanage is costs 165 birr (13 dollars) for a container that makes less than two gallons of milk. Not a very sustainable [...]

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