Anyhow, I want to update any friends and family members (or perhaps generous strangers) reading this about a building project I am working on at the moment. The plan is twofold:
#1- We are repairing a woman’s meeting house and turning it into a community guest house, which will be managed by the village momma’s. The mommas currently do not use the house much because there is no masonite to shield them from the heat radiating down from the copper roofing on sunny days. The windows and doors are broken, the rain tank has fallen apart and wooden posts supporting the structure of the house have rotted. Once we have enough funding we will completely repair the building and provide the momma’s with a great way to earn an income with the first guest house of its kind built in our area.
#2- The adjoining community center (or nakamal) is too small to shelter every villager during weekly community meetings and occasional events held in the village. Women are often excluded from meetings as a result. So villagers have already started a massive effort of expanding the building. There is no lighting inside though and locals often end up meeting in the dark. With project funding we will provide a solar light system to power the entire community center.
This project will make a big impact on the lives of the villagers who I have embraced as friends and family. Donations can be made online via credit card on the Peace Corps website.
The link is:
https://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=donate.contribute.projDetail&projdesc=461-045
Even a small contribution will be appreciated. Thank you for you support!
(Below: Village mommas that will benefit from the guest house, and the community center expansion underway... Notice the dozen or so villagers hoisting a very heavy hardwood support beam in place!)
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