Ed and I started today out with a walk across the street to see the old large Catholic Cathedral here in Bangui. We spent some quite time there and then a gentleman asked us to leave and proceeded to lock the front doors rather abruptly. We continued talking on the front steps about our past and some of the similar perspectives that we have about God and our walk here on earth.
About 9:00 AM, we were back at the guest house and began to summarize our findings through all of the data collection activities that we've done since our arrival on Sept 17th. We concluded our immediate actions should solve a chronic parasite issue and increase feeding with more nutritional food. In addition, we concluded that long-term health solutions in the communities where our children live depends on educating and equipping them to improve washing methods, cooking more nutritious food, wearing shoes, techniques for mitigating malaria, etc.
Around lunch time, Christophe, Tom and Luther were added to our discussion. We drilled even more into what they think the priorities are related to the health issues we've uncovered. Christophe echoed the same concerns and recommended that we address the same priorities.
On a related subject, we discussed the idea of implementing ID badges to assist our program with identity management and facilitate a child's access to local clinics, school etc. Christophe and Luther suggested several positive reasons that an ID system should be used. They shared that the concept of an ID is well understood and accepted in their culture. At 3:30 PM we headed out to the Mercy Orphan Care Center to finish our time learning time with Rebecca and find out her views of what the priorities are related to the health issues we've uncovered.
At 6:00 PM we left to visit Rebecca's sister whose Husband's father just died up country. We gave them coffee, sugar and tea, shared our condolences as we all sat outside for about 45 minutes. Tom Peters (ICDI) shared a Bible verse from Psalm 62 and we prayed together.
About 7:15 PM we made it home for a dinner of left overs and fresh bread. Like almost every night, I plugged in to begin working on regular VisionTrust work - it doesn't stop while I am out of the country.
About 9:00 AM, we were back at the guest house and began to summarize our findings through all of the data collection activities that we've done since our arrival on Sept 17th. We concluded our immediate actions should solve a chronic parasite issue and increase feeding with more nutritional food. In addition, we concluded that long-term health solutions in the communities where our children live depends on educating and equipping them to improve washing methods, cooking more nutritious food, wearing shoes, techniques for mitigating malaria, etc.
Around lunch time, Christophe, Tom and Luther were added to our discussion. We drilled even more into what they think the priorities are related to the health issues we've uncovered. Christophe echoed the same concerns and recommended that we address the same priorities.
On a related subject, we discussed the idea of implementing ID badges to assist our program with identity management and facilitate a child's access to local clinics, school etc. Christophe and Luther suggested several positive reasons that an ID system should be used. They shared that the concept of an ID is well understood and accepted in their culture. At 3:30 PM we headed out to the Mercy Orphan Care Center to finish our time learning time with Rebecca and find out her views of what the priorities are related to the health issues we've uncovered.
At 6:00 PM we left to visit Rebecca's sister whose Husband's father just died up country. We gave them coffee, sugar and tea, shared our condolences as we all sat outside for about 45 minutes. Tom Peters (ICDI) shared a Bible verse from Psalm 62 and we prayed together.
About 7:15 PM we made it home for a dinner of left overs and fresh bread. Like almost every night, I plugged in to begin working on regular VisionTrust work - it doesn't stop while I am out of the country.
Praise the Lord, I got the internet to work tonight after being down for 2 days.
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