Around Hope Village, Malawi

I had asked Darren to wake me up early since everything goes smoother the earlier I'm up. So he did. After my shower, Darren showed me some water that he was boiling in his tea separator. With the separator he puts his loose tea in it, and it separates the loose tea from the water, so he doesn't get the loose tea in his water. 

Darren was boiling water to clean out the machine. He showed me how he managed to get the water to boil on the top and bottom all at once.  It was pretty neat.

So now I will show you all the buildings and facilities in Hope Village.

The Luka Home

The Henry Home

The Children's Home (Tom's home. He's a foster parent.)

The Jungle Gym

The Clinic

This is where I got my Malaria test today in the late afternoon. Darren had suggested I get it with me getting quite a few stomachaches, headaches, and neck pains. Those are symptoms of Malaria. I went for the test, but it came out negative...  Just me and my body. Lol.

The Training Centre

The Pastoral Office

Pastor Ganizani's office

The Kitchen (Left), washing area (middle), and the male's and female's office (the right)

The Daycare and Preschool Centre

At play on the swings in the Jungle Gym.

The Water Tower

This is the soccer field at Hope Village. The dirt here in Malawi is like concrete, so it really kind of hurts to run barefoot on this field of dirt.

The Soccer Field

Manager of guards, Petro's, house

The Hope Village Shop

The Warehouse

The Gill's home. 

They are the missionaries that had previously lived here for eight years and left in August of 2015.

Jackie's house

The Workshop

Another angle

The Gill's house that they were building, but then didn't have enough money to finish the process. And this is the place Keiran and I like to go climb on.

The Fish Ponds

The Duck House

The Pig's Pen

Inside the barn

The Barn

The Goat's Pen

I had to get some tools from the warehouse which is about half a kilometer away, so I made a deal with Evance to help him get around one hundred and twenty bricks so that I could use his truck to bring the tools over to the barn. It was so much better than walking with the tools for a half kilometer in a wheel-barrel in forty-five degree weather.

George riding Malawian style in the back of the Bantam

Now at the job, I got this shot of a tree type in Malawi that has its branches going in every direction.

The one hundred and twenty bricks only took around five minutes to throw in and stack.

We dropped them off in a pile, so the guy in this hole could make a drop toilet for the village.

George was having driving practice. He was pretty happy to have it.

We dropped off the tools, and I decided to help Luca work on the water pipe building. AKA 'The Toilet.'

After I finished with Luca, which was pretty fast since he didn't have much for me, I went for a short walk to the Duck House and found the skin of the goat that they had had to kill because it had a broken foot.

He had a broken leg, so they killed him. Now someone in the village is having part of him as their dinner.

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