A quick glimpse at the past few days with some photos added after the fact.
The road to Kono was always bumpy and sometimes slippery.
Tuesday...stopped by Kissy Hospital located in the midst of the most crowded part of Freetown. Visited the various departments especially the well baby clinic, the physical therapy department (where I found Steven hard at work), inspected the walkways (looking great Valpo-Austin team), stopped by the maternity ward all before 11:30 a.m.
The road to Kono was always bumpy and sometimes slippery.
Tuesday...stopped by Kissy Hospital located in the midst of the most crowded part of Freetown. Visited the various departments especially the well baby clinic, the physical therapy department (where I found Steven hard at work), inspected the walkways (looking great Valpo-Austin team), stopped by the maternity ward all before 11:30 a.m.
- Out team of 8 women expanded a bit with the addition of Matilda(the UMW of Sierra Leone) and Jilliana whose on the planning team for the conference we will attend next week. Now this makes 11 in the van.
- After about 11 hours on the road, two flat tires, we arrived at midnight in the diamond mining town of Kono. Unbelievable roads.
- Wednesday morning we traveled to the women's training center in Konomusu which is a project of UMW. Women, a few men, Christians and Muslims worked together to learn skills that will help with the family income. Included are soap making, dress making, tye-dying, weaving, and hair styling. Busy place.
- We were invited to visit a new girls school nearby. One class had 78 enrolled however only 72 were in attendance. This is a UM school of Sierra Leone. After the visit we stopped back at the training center for a lunch that had been prepared by the local UMW.
- In the evening we went to the local church which is a yoked church with a UM pastor and a Methodist pastor. The UMC pastor is the result of missionaries from the US and the other pastor/congregation comes from the missionary movement out of Great Britain. Interesting....a
- The next day we hit the rough road again and we were of to Muyamba to visit the Hartford School For Girls ... Another project of UMW. We spent a quick night there. We toured the school in the morning, visited the feeder school just across town, were presented a scripture drama by the pre school, enjoyed lunch before getting back on the what has become known as the bun shacker road.
- Got in the van around 1:30 and arrived back in Freetown around 7:30. It was to have been a 4 or five hour drive but Freetown traffic was unbelievable. Traffic includes cars and people!
Sorry about the length...This is way more than anyone can read..sorry. Our time with the women has been eye widening and very encouraging about the future of Sierra Leone. Goodnight. Bonnie
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