Serving Others

Another update from Bill.

I was our team representative at the meeting with the locals yesterday. We had asked them to form a committee of 10 people for us to work with. About 30 people showed up for our meeting. It was pretty much like a city council meeting in the USA. After multiple long,windy speeches it was finally determined that we would build latrines (that decision may partially reflect their opinion of our construction skills:)). We have asked the community to provide several volunteers so that we can work alongside them. We can’t begin work on a school building because of a lengthy permit process. Today we will primarily be gathering materials and prepping the site. We hope to get the floor slab poured but that appears to be a rather lofty goal. The area we are building the latrines in has several hundred children in the immediate area and they swarm us when we arrive. I’m sure we will play lots of soccer, toss frisbees, etc while waiting on supplies.