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Abia

As I mentioned, the current house is going on amazing! We are managing despite the hardship and finding joy and progress in every day

We are also making positive motions forward on our land in Abia. We have found an amazing location and are in the process of having the village elders officially sign it over. When that happens we will begin surveying and then walling. We have also created a working relationship with the Mbaka Foundation which is also in Abia State and its head office by us in the village. Their vision and objectives fall closely along ours, but differ enough that it creates a viable relationship to work together and meet a greater number of needs. We are excited about this.

FCT ( Federal Capital Territory)

We have been putting greater efforts, due to requests for involvement, toward our set up in FCT. There have been some amazing resources and networks opening up to us. Meetings and discussions are still in active process and we are looking forward to concrete steps leading to official set up soon!  Stay posted!

Well it has been an amazing two and a half months with Cat and Laurel here. They have added immensely to the strength and functionality of the home. It has been with enthusiastic and joyful spirits that Cat and Laurel have modeled for the staff the appropriate measures we have in place as well as guided and taught them. They have done a great job.

The staff have adjusted and picked up so quickly. We are so blessed to have a strong team who truly understand the calling and vision of this organization and bend themselves readily to serve it.

Steve has also been here for two weeks now and has taught our men staff a great many things with the aid of POWER TOOLS!! It has been a hilarious experience. The laundry line has been fixed, new trellises build for the garden vegetable and yams to grow on, bunkbeds sawed in half, door frames fixed, some Terrano problems adjusted, plans for the new cement gen shed extension, and so on. The guys have loved having him around and dont leave him alone.

Only a few more days left here in the village before heading to Abuja and they jump on a jet plane outta here. It will be sad to see them go although it has been an amazing trip for them and for us to have them! xoxo

We have had a wonderful man who is from Isuikwuato, who more recently heard about us and what we are doing, and stepped in immediately to start donating finances to us. It has been beyond exciting as he is the first person here in Nigeria to take a serious interest by helping, and who has backed up his words of support with his actions and follow through. We are so grateful and pray God’s blessings on him as he has continued to support us over the last four weeks.

With those donations we have been able to AT LAST put up our security wire around the compound wall. We also were able to meet a months wages for the staff as well as diesel and water for two weeks. We are continuing to do work around the house with the on going support, by having new front doors for the house made, a new door frame plus labour for installation. Also we are able to poor new cement slaps and wall to extend the generator shed, as we have also had a NEW generator donated!!! We are awaiting its arrival soon.

We are so happy to have Steve here. We are getting some much needed repairs done finally. The bunk-beds which we had built here, are now being dismantled and cut in half as they are not stable enough to be bunk beds. Not an easy task as all the legs need to be even. There are four bunks to be done. There has been repairs being made to the generator, as well as to the Terrano, both of those which have been serving us well but are falling apart. It would seem this terrain and life here are very hard on things… not to mention us, but we wont go there. :)

Well it has been a long two weeks of strange noises at night in the ceiling. While we are used to the typical lizard races and fight clubs that are clearly going on up there, as well as the chichiba (mouse/shrew thing) and rat scampering around and games of tag…there have been some strange non-legged animal sounds going on.

Well after listening carefully night after night, which is only possible as our generator has been broken and not running, and in-between the screaming sessions that Michael has, oh yes, and on the nights that there happen not to be neighbours yelling and fighting, evangelists preaching in mega phones and praying, the town square bell and town crier, or all night vigils or wake keeps… well we have discovered and come to the conclusion that there is a distinct and large SLITHERING sound going on in the ceiling! AHHHHH. Yes what in the world are we going to do!? We have checked to make sure there is now way for our new non-welcome friend to come through the roof into any of the upstairs rooms, but how do we get him OUT is the questions. So we have consulted with our staff and discussed some of our funny traditional and herbal methods lol, and have come to the conclusion we need a professional “vermin catcher”. So until such a time as a “vermin catcher” can be acquired we are sleeping with one eye open and having our torches click on and off throughout the night…just incase.