The house is finished

Just want to share with you some photos from my friend. She has been building her house with help from some friends. She prepared some bricks herself and had some financial help from Holland. They helped her with details for the house. She is very proud of the house although for her it is not finished yet as she wants to make two rooms more. But for now she can live in the house and enoy her own property. We spend X-mas at her place. It was very special, my mom really enjoyed it

Yes I am still here

Hello everyone,

I have not been updating a lot lately on my weblog. I am very sorry. It´s not that nothing happened because a lot happened.

When I got back from spain the spanish girls came over. It was great having them around. We did a lot of things with them. You can read their experience at http://www.proyectosawubona.es/ (spanish) Also my mom is here. She has been working very hard. She loves the country as much as I do. But in two weeks she will be going back after three months and that will be very difficult for her.

In these three months a lot happened we had some fun experiences and sad ones.

We had another visitor Henk-Jan from Holland he joined us with our daily activities.

You can read his stories at his site http://www.thalente.nl/ (dutch)

The big sad thing that happened is a tornado passing one of the townships we work. It was on a friday in November. I was sick and sleeping on the couch when out site it just turned black like the night. My mom could see the tornado coming but I could not move. In the afternoon I received a call from my collegues that it was a disaster. They had never seen anything like it. You can read about it on our website http://www.khulanisimunye.org/English/Body_Eng.html (english).

Me and my mom helped out with the sorting all the donations that came from everywhere.

I did not go to the township because I was to afraid to see all the missery that a tornado left in 7 minutes. We did go to the funeral of the 8 people that died and it was my first time to see the houses destroyed. It was horrible and it made me sad.

Now the goverment is trying to help the people getting their lives together but it goes very slow.

Also last week they had another disaster, the place where a lot of people where based after the tornado, the youth centre got burned down. It is realy not fair having so many terrible things happening to a town that already lives in a challenging situation. The story just goes on..............