Hello friends and family,
As promised, here are some pictures from our last three days!!
This was after Curtis and I had spent the afternoon hanging out with the kiddos! As I mentioned in yesterday's blog, Curtis had a HUGE game of tag with the little boys, and they were playing in a big dusty arena-like area! So after they stopped playing, everyone was covered from head to toe in dust! All of the mothers were trying to help get the dust off of Curtis, but this is how he looked for most of the rest of the day!
We are at the Munini site talking with the maintenance chief and showing VMO our project!
Many people know that I absolutely love, love, love babies! And so whenever I have the chance to hold a baby while we are in community I take it! I usually have to ask Mezack to ask the mother or sister if it would be okay for me to hold the baby and they are usually very willing to let me hold their cherub. The little one to the left was the most expressive and smiley baby! I would lift her in the air and she would giggle and smile and kick.
This baby on the right however was not quite as interactive. She kind of just chilled out while I held her. Curtis put it fairly accurately when he said that in this picture she's just "muggin" or pouting. We couldn't help but laugh at how serious her face looks here.
This was the ceremony where the beneficiaries all shared how they had been impacted by a certain project. To the left is a picture of the bunny we were given as a very generous gift.
And to the right is a picture of the beautiful sign our partners in the water project gave to us. If you can't read it, it says "I love you" with a red rose in the middle of the picture. Both of these gifts meant so much to us and we were so grateful to receive them on behalf of everyone who has helped with building process, designing process and ensuring the success of the water tanks throughout the history of our project.
Curtis has also just posted an update from our day today and I will be back in touch tomorrow!!
With much love and many hugs,
Nikki
As promised, here are some pictures from our last three days!!
This was after Curtis and I had spent the afternoon hanging out with the kiddos! As I mentioned in yesterday's blog, Curtis had a HUGE game of tag with the little boys, and they were playing in a big dusty arena-like area! So after they stopped playing, everyone was covered from head to toe in dust! All of the mothers were trying to help get the dust off of Curtis, but this is how he looked for most of the rest of the day!
Unfortunately I can't figure out how to rotate this picture, but it's a picture of Curtis and Wilson (the head of the Nyrotosho site) holding hands as they walk back into the main town. Holding hands with the same gender here is seen very frequently and is often a sign of deep friendship and respect.
This is the mayor of the district of Cyanika (where all of our projects are located). He came to the ribbon cutting ceremony we had with VMO and we ate lunch with him following the ceremony.
Can't travel without the occasional "selfie"...
These are the bricks that are frequently used to build the houses in the areas we work in.
The kiddos love more than anything to see pictures of themselves striking silly poses like these seen here!
We are at the Munini site talking with the maintenance chief and showing VMO our project!
This was the ribbon cutting ceremony for the opening of VMO's new potato storage house which was so exciting to witness and to help celebrate!
Many people know that I absolutely love, love, love babies! And so whenever I have the chance to hold a baby while we are in community I take it! I usually have to ask Mezack to ask the mother or sister if it would be okay for me to hold the baby and they are usually very willing to let me hold their cherub. The little one to the left was the most expressive and smiley baby! I would lift her in the air and she would giggle and smile and kick.
This baby on the right however was not quite as interactive. She kind of just chilled out while I held her. Curtis put it fairly accurately when he said that in this picture she's just "muggin" or pouting. We couldn't help but laugh at how serious her face looks here.
This was the ceremony where the beneficiaries all shared how they had been impacted by a certain project. To the left is a picture of the bunny we were given as a very generous gift.
And to the right is a picture of the beautiful sign our partners in the water project gave to us. If you can't read it, it says "I love you" with a red rose in the middle of the picture. Both of these gifts meant so much to us and we were so grateful to receive them on behalf of everyone who has helped with building process, designing process and ensuring the success of the water tanks throughout the history of our project.
Curtis has also just posted an update from our day today and I will be back in touch tomorrow!!
With much love and many hugs,
Nikki
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