Monday and Tuesday, December 1 & 2
Today Michael and I move on the second country of our water well efforts in rural Africa.
Both days are travel days. Just before Lira we stopped by the sign shop and as expected a lot of individual labor and pretty ordinary conditions.
Our flight from Apac (where the wells are being constructed) to Lira was a welcome surprise as we had a small two seat plane and flew direct vs on the way to Apac we made multiple stops.
Our pilot Simon, is from Switzerland and grew up in Papua, New Guinea where his parents served as missionaries. This service is known as Mission Aviation Fellowship. Simon started each flight with a word of prayer. We landed just a few miles from our hotel in Entebbe and from the airport. That was important as our flight today was at 5AM.
From Entebbe, Uganda we flew to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania changing planes in Nairobi, Kenya. Oh I know – time to look at a map of Africa – eh?
When we arrived at our hotel for our overnight here – a hot shower was most welcome.
Michael and I had lunch with representatives from Catholic Relief Services (CRS).
Godfrey Mpangala is Program Director of CRS Water efforts and Ruth Junkin is Head of Programing. Ruth grew up in Austin, Texas and visited Austin this summer. Small world in so many ways except when flying around in Africa.
We had a delightful meeting sharing possibilities of working together and use of contracted resources.
Tomorrow we are on to Iringa and will be working with the staff of St Paul Partners of St Paul, MN. We will be lodging at the Lutheran Guest house. We will also be joined by Joseph W. Troester, Ph.D.
East Africa Regional Representative ELCA
P.O. Box 1770, Arusha, Tanzania
+255 683 205 283
www.africanwaterlog.blogspot.comhttp://www.africanwaterlog.blogspot.com
Joe serves – Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and Southern Sudan. His blogspot has more info. Hopefully I will be able to do a blog tomorrow evening from Iringa. And our flight is not until 7AM so we sleep in as compared to today.
-Ed Scharlau
Monday and Tuesday, December 1 & 2
Today Michael and I move on the second country of our water well efforts in rural Africa.
Both days are travel days. Just before Lira we stopped by the sign shop and as expected a lot of individual labor and pretty ordinary conditions.
Our flight from Apac (where the wells are being constructed) to Lira was a welcome surprise as we had a small two seat plane and flew direct vs on the way to Apac we made multiple stops.
Our pilot Simon, is from Switzerland and grew up in Papua, New Guinea where his parents served as missionaries. This service is known as Mission Aviation Fellowship. Simon started each flight with a word of prayer. We landed just a few miles from our hotel in Entebbe and from the airport. That was important as our flight today was at 5AM.
From Entebbe, Uganda we flew to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania changing planes in Nairobi, Kenya. Oh I know – time to look at a map of Africa – eh?
When we arrived at our hotel for our overnight here – a hot shower was most welcome.
Michael and I had lunch with representatives from Catholic Relief Services (CRS).
Godfrey Mpangala is Program Director of CRS Water efforts and Ruth Junkin is Head of Programing. Ruth grew up in Austin, Texas and visited Austin this summer. Small world in so many ways except when flying around in Africa.
We had a delightful meeting sharing possibilities of working together and use of contracted resources.
Tomorrow we are on to Iringa and will be working with the staff of St Paul Partners of St Paul, MN. We will be lodging at the Lutheran Guest house. We will also be joined by Joseph W. Troester, Ph.D.
East Africa Regional Representative ELCA
P.O. Box 1770, Arusha, Tanzania
+255 683 205 283
www.africanwaterlog.blogspot.comhttp://www.africanwaterlog.blogspot.com
Joe serves – Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and Southern Sudan. His blogspot has more info. Hopefully I will be able to do a blog tomorrow evening from Iringa. And our flight is not until 7AM so we sleep in as compared to today.
-Ed Scharlau
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