Friday, June 8, 2007

up the mountain

Today we went up into some of the villages on the mountain and saw a goat project that Jenga is running. It is really neat, they are raising goats and giving them to widows. the people on the mountain are very poor, they have not much at all, and the widows have nothing. So when Jenga gives them a goat, they have income and milk. They have already given 60 goats since the project started this year.
I will try and post some pictures.
It sounds as though i will be working with Cindy, the doctor from Holland who arrived a few weeks ago, to set up a clinic in this area. There are about 20-30,000 people in the mountains and the closest clinic is JOY, which is about a 2 hour walk, so Jenga has been hoping to do this for a while and now with Cindy and I here, it looks like we are going to do it, so I'm really excited about that.

1 comment:

Rebekah said...

Hey Anna! Sounds like things are going well so far in Mbale (aside from the comical-looking fall(s)). Jenga has some crazy stuff going on I'm sure you'll learn a lot!