Team 2 Arrives...with no bags. Happy Monday!!

So today team 2 arrived on time as scheduled. The only downside to this arrival was that none of their checked baggage arrived. It is supposed to be on the incoming flight from Joberg, South Africa tomorrow. We will see.

This morning, Ken Morris and I went and visited two of the four families that are being considered as possible recipients of the house that this next team is about to finish. One of the families really struck me in an interesting way. The family was one elderly grandmother taking care of 7 children. Her daughter, who is the sole monetary support, stays with her in Kauma on the weekends but works in another area of Lilongwe during the week and cannot have her kids with her. The daughter's 4 kids live with the grandmother. Their father wants nothing to do with the children and has written them off. Two of the other children are aids orphans who lost their mother to aids and their father to a car accident. So, here is this elderly grandmother taking care of 7 children in a 2 room rented shack, no bigger than one small room in the US. The house is so small that 2 of the children have to stay with a neighbor. In Africa, were sexual abuse runs wild, the thought of sending two children to sleep at a neighbors every night, the thought is atrocious.

It will be very interesting to see how things shape up in the next couple of days. Here are a couple images from the last couple of days. One picture is of Steve, the head teacher for Adziwa school, grading papers in a run down church in Kauma that currently is one of three locations for the school. Another image is Jim O'Donnell having a great moment with one of the kids of Adziwa. The other two, well I just liked. Good objects.