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Monthly Archives: October 2010

:: Nancy (part 1)

Over the past month, Rachel and I have been making house calls to a few special needs children who are being sponsored by a VSO volunteer from the UK, Ira. She is paying for these children to get physical therapy and has asked us to go with her from time to time to assess their…

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Alex (Week 1)

This is Alex: He is 9 years old and weighs just 22 pounds. He was born with cerebral palsy and has spent most of his life curled up in a dark corner of his mothers one-room mud hut. No one spoke to him until recently when he has received attention from PMI medical teams and…

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:: update on the twins’ mom

We were able to take the twins to see their mother last week. I took Ellie and sat with her for about 30 minutes while Rachel took Eli to his first HIV appointment. She was doing much better than we could have expected. She could sit up and eat. She even had enough strength to…

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:: On what I have learned so far in Africa

The surest way to get the power to come back on at your house is to pack up all your school supplies to go work at the hotel and step out the front door. The second best way to get the power to go out is to say, “Wow! I’m sure glad there’s power!”. Bam!…

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