My first helicopter ride. 30 minute flight and I arrived in the village. Funny story: as I am getting off the heli, I fall to the ground. I would like to say that it was because I was so excited about being there or that I was dazing from flight. The heli pad is made out of lava rocks and I am definitely not used to having to walk on rocks. I am used to flat land.
It was great to see exactly where my teammates work and how they live. The people in the village are wonderful...everyone was so nice. There are several really great project going on: Water and Sanitation (building latrines and water wells), Community Health (teaching men and women basic health education as well as teaching English), Agriculture (showing the nationals how to grow crops and introducing raising chickens) and a vocational center (due the day boys and girls that are orphans will learn skills of survival and then at night there will be a place for them to sleep so that they are not sleeping on the streets).
Here are pictures of the compound:
the bathrooms...no western toilets there.
the hut that we sleep in. (made out of mud, dung and then covered with rocks)
kitchen...talk about cooking over an open fire.
inside one of the huts
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