Gifts put to use

We got a donation of materials from OXFAM this past week.  2 wheelbarrows and 100 small buckets. We quickly put them to work…. We replanted our mahogany trees. left to right – flamboyant, mahogany in the front, acasia and sed in the back (don’t know english names, sorry), and lots

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a gift of 1400 trees

All around Cazale, the mountains are bare, the soil is eroded, and the crops are decreasing.  Decreased crop yield means less money and less food.  The community group believes that planting trees and using other soil erosion techniques might help stop this cycle.  Trees are needed to cooking fuel, caskets,

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Malaria

World Malaria Day is coming up on April 25th and I just wanted to make mention of a few things. Malaria is caused by a tiny parasite carried and transmitted by mosquitoes from human to human.  The parasite invades cells – liver, blood.  It reproduces and destroys at an alarming

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Welcome Frislande

You are scared and sick.  You seem so confused by everything that happened today as I watched your papa make a hard decision to leave you here with us.  He brought you to the clinic not understanding  nor able to control what was happening to his baby girl.  Your mom

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