The end of the rainy season is quickly approaching. We are eagerly anticipating the end of October because its hot and come November, Winter! No snow is in the forecast yet however. The past 2 weeks have been the hottest here with no rain to cool us off. Being that it is 90 degrees plus inside our hut at night now, we have started sleeping in our tent outside. Best decision ever. We are both sleeping a lot better in our tent, in our backyard. Besides bracing the heat, we are still working on the same projects that I wrote about last month.
I have started teaching some environmental education lessons at the school and am collecting materials for a resource center the new head master is starting. The women have started clearing the grass from the dry season garden and are preparing to start gardening again after they harvest the rice. This time, the Spanish NGO, the Future is Our Country is bringing in a man from the city who works with a different NGO called Concern Universal to help the women plan their garden. I will be helping out with that as well, and the Future is Our Country has asked me to write a report on how everything goes. Our youth association group is still going well; we’ve weeded the compound, and started making the fence. Later we will finish the fence, clean the house, and harvest the group’s rice. We selected 4 youth members to attend a work shop at the NGO Bee Cause to learn how to make items using honey such as soap, lotion, candles, and food with honey. We hope to get the honey from the Spanish NGO and also sell the items at Luis’s restaurant in the city.
Women's Kafoo at the rice fields
Our host grandma - Mama Musa
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