Water and women

Today I started my vacation. It will be quiet. Connecting with family in south western ontario. I didn't wake up until 715. I did things around the house but in a leisurely manner. I finally got into the shower at 930. Took a while for the hot water to come to the second floor and I didn't get in until it did. I thought about how much water had gone down the drain. Two or three buckets full? Two or three trips to a water source 16 km away for some woman or woman child in Masasi. I thought about how much a woman there would have accomplished already in the day to fend for her family. She knows no vacation. I recall saying to Joyce from the Mother's Union that I had put some of the wood carvings from our last trip as decorations in my bathroom. She looked at me strangely and said "you decorated your bathroom". I think about the disconnect. One of their homes is the size of my bathroom. And the bathroom for them is outside.
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a gift

following a tour of a PWRDF project from the 1980's at Lukula that included providing them with goats,  a cow and a tractor, we were presented with a live rooster!  The rooster is now residing at Bishop Patrick's and Mama Emmie's farm.

Slave trade--Zanzibar

In this pit is where captured victims were featured for sale

PWRDF

We have had many contact us to inquire how they might partner with Masasi in sharing resources and ministry.  Please contact your PWRDF rep or the National Office and indicate that you would like to aid in the ministry of the major development plan for Education, Health, Water and Food Sustainability through the Anglican Diocese of Masasi and Bishop Patrick.

The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund 
Le fonds du Primat pour le secours et le développement mondial

80 Hayden Street Toronto, Ontario M4Y 3G2
Phone:             416-924-9192 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            416-924-9192      end_of_the_skype_highlighting      
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Fax: 416-924-3483
General E-mail: pwrdf[at]pwrdf.org 
Charitable Number: 8664 34640 RR0001

PWRDF/CIDA bore hole handed over to village in ceremony

We were present at Chakuma where a bore hole that was sponsored by PWRDF and CIDA was handed over to the village to manage.

confirmation of more than 80 at Nachingwea

a woman at Chakuma