Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Today after breakfast we got ready and went to Korah and did camp.

We would see people sitting around as we drove into Korah.

Over 75,000 people live in Korah.  Some have families.  Some don't.  Many are seen walking with a cane or stick because of all the illnesses they have in Korah.

These people had a cart with a horse pulling it to carry their teff.

Once we got everything ready, we had another day of summer camp.

We were singing "Dum Dum Diddy". The kids liked it. Some of them would come up on the stage and do it with us. It was fun.

Aunt Heather is teaching the lesson and Biruk is translating.

These three girls sang "This is the Day" in Amharic and English. They did really good.  The other kids sang with them too.

 While waiting for lunch, I showed these girls a little album of pictures I took with me of my family. The kids like to see pictures of the teams family.

Yergamachew was excited about us going to visit his family in their home.



After we fed the kids lunch, we ate our lunch then went on a home visit to Yergamachew's house. Yergamachew is Miss Lisa's sponsored child. His mom did a coffee ceremony for us and it was really cool. The popcorn was AWESOME! (I'll do a separate post about that.) 

Stephen carried the teff when we went on one of our home visits. It was really heavy becuase it was 50 kilos.

We walked and walked and walked...

...as Yergamachew showed us the way.  "Faster, faster!"  That bag was getting heavy!

He was ready for some water when he got to their house.

This is Miss Lisa, Mommy and me with Yergamachew and his family.  He has older siblings who weren't there.

So on the way back they took us on a "short cut" which was really a "muddy cut".  Ms. Wynne was wearing flip flops.  Eww!  I was glad I had on my boots!

Some people tied up one of their donkey's legs so he couldn't run away. Poor donkey.

A street in Korah.  Mud puddles are very common.

Spices drying on a blanket on the ground.  People and animals walked right by it.

This woman was carrying a load of sticks on her back.  Someone told me that she had gathered them and would try to sell them.  She was bent over the whole time she was walking.

Walking a street in Korah on our way to the ALERT hospital.  Kids would walk with us for a while then stop to go back the way we came.

This is Bright Hope School where some of the Project 61 kids go to school.  It is not a boarding school so they get to stay at home at night.

Inside the gate at Bright Hope School.

Some little girls wanted Mommy to take their photo so they could see themselves on the camera.  I don't know where their parents were.  They were just out walking around like lots of other kids were doing.  They sure are cute with big smiles.

These boys wanted to see their photos too.  God loves every one of them!

After the home visit we walked to the ALERT hospital. It was started a long time ago for the lepers.  It still helps lepers today.  That is how Korah started.  The lepers were considered outcasts.  So they started living near the hospital.  Today there are at least 75,000 people living in Korah with 3 and 4 generations believing they are worthless.

We did a little souvenir shopping in the gift shop there. Well, maybe alot of souvenir shopping.

We shopped at the ALERT hospital.  The patients make things to sell to raise money for the hospital.  Uncle Shawn isn't really asleep.  But he said the last time someone took his photo right here, he WAS asleep. He's silly but I love him!

After seeing the hospital and shopping, we went back to the guest house for a little bit before going to eat dinner at Island Breeze. I had strawberry fanta and chicken tenders with honey mustard. After dinner we went to the guesthouse and went to bed.  It had been a long day!