More pictures

This sweet baby, Abigail, is 2 months old. The women carry the babies like this on their back all the time. They keep working and the babies just sleep or look around. Often the siblings will carry the babies on their backs too. This little girl that I feel in love with yesterday told me through a translator, “My name is Cecelia, I’m 4, but I can hold a tiny little baby on my back. I have a new little brother.”

After lunch I took a break in the bus, but my friends followed me. I took this while sitting just inside the door. I taught them how to make monkey faces, fish faces, and to roll their tongues (it gets tough to think of games and activities to do without a translator!!)This is the tongue rolling one. They howled with laughter when I showed them the picture!

This is from the tree planting part of our curriculum. The school was given 20 trees to plant and the students planted them as classes.The boy working here is Steven’s older brother. He does not have HIV.

This is from our final presentation. Jesse Pipes found a donor to give money for us to buy a sapling for every child at each school to take home and plant with their families. We had some extra for this school, so we were able to present tree saplings to the village members and elders, and some of the rug rats too. They were all so excited. I am on the far right. The baby on my back is Cecilia – remember she is 4!! Look how little she is! Brett was in charge of passing out the trees, so I think he was moving the trailer when this picture was taken. You should have seen him pulling this little trailer full of trees on these super rutted out dirt roads. He was amazing! Trailer work at home will feel like a breeze after that!