Chopper Ride

Chopper ride over Liberia

Jungle surrounds most of the small villages here but along the main road you will find growing cities.

Hope for me after all!

Hi Everyone! I finally figured out how to add multiple pics on this blogg! Here are some new ones for you to take a look at.

The first is some of the children at Hope Village, Glory, Eadie, Solomon, and Rose.

Next is the Equip pick up being towed out of the yard. They used two boards and pushed it up into another truck to take it to the city (4 hrs away) for repairs!


Here is little Emmanuel and his dad. During the war Emmanuel was running from the fighting and he got thristy. he found a bucket that he thought had water in it and drank from it. It was actually castic soda! He has had to have several surgeries and lots of medical care, but thanks to Dr.s without borders, and the wonderful volunteers of Equip, Sarah and Jody, he is doing well today. He is now able to eat soft foods and is gaining weight.




Here are Logan and friend brushing the grass. There are no lawn mowers here and there is lots of grass! Logan is one of the boys I pay to keep the grass down.

Well, I think that is enough for one day. Will post again soon.

God Bless you all!

Flamboyant Tree

I love this tree in my yard. It gets these beautiful red flowers all over it. They call it a "Flamboyant Tree".

Bangladesh Peacekeeper Base

The Banbat 7 base is just across the rice fields from where I live.

Sunset chopper flight

Sunset from Rehab. Notice the chopper in the picture it is landing at the Banbat base

Musu

Musu relaxes in my yard at rehab

Goodbye song

Bangladeshi soldiers from Banbat 4 sing their good byes as they prepare to leave Liberia. Banbat 7 replaced them

Irish soliders

With the Irish by the UN chopper from left to right Andrea, Sarah, Irish soldier Jody and Valri. All the Equip girls are gone now and I miss them very much.

Oops!

Un CIVPOL (civilian police) taking a dive!

Fun times

Ruth, Sarah, and Rachel watching volleryball game at Bangladeshi base

Signs of war

You can still find signs of war everywhere. here are some bullet casings laying around on the road from 2 yrs ago!

Flower children

Sarah and Jody in the rice fields with beautiful flowers. I miss them lots!

Kitchen duty

Pounding cassava for GB. note the pigs in the kitchen area! Yuk!

Road trouble

Equip jeep in mud. Sarah walking around (or through?) the mud.

dancing in the rain 

Keeping the peace

Nigerian peacekeeper tower with sign Peace is Sweet

Don beat yo wo man

don't beat woman

mob sign

Mob Violence sign

Election sign

a sign from Lone Star Cell Phone company promoting the election in Oct.

Rice is life

Some of the signs here are interesting. here is one about rice

Sisters!

Sister Paula and Sister Rita from the TB and Leperocy rehab where I live

Ganta City

Ganta was completely destroyed in 2003 as seen here (above).
However, Ganta today (below) is rebuilt bigger and better than before the war! Before the war there were about 30,000 people in Ganta City now there are an estimated 90,000!