Mawanga, Uganda. [Join] the Community

  • Mawanga is a remote village of 5,000 people located 3 hours east of Jinja in the Bugiri District. Partnering with the local pastor and community at large, we empower and assist the underserved who experience economic, physical, spiritual and social barriers to become self-reliant and strong believers in Christ

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Fri JUL 18, 08 a late report from Sonia Grifith in Mawanga

Friday, July 18, 2008, 12:32 AM
Jambo Dad! ....... We are doing great! Today all the men come back from Jinja. The Pastor's conference is over at noon today. (It's 10:30 on Friday right now) Miriam says that she is NOT tired. :) (but she sleeps really really hard at night) turns out she doesn't like the same foods that I do here. go figure. Today we carried up the materials for the roof of the ROWAN office. Now they are waiting for the carpenter to show up so that they can actually put the roof on the building. Wev'e been just kick'n it during the afternoon, playing cards with Andrew and Shawna, sometimes Tom and Brian
People are surprisingly different than we thought that they would be. Tom is rediculously chipper...all the time. So is everyone else for that matter.
We've been doing VBS with the kids every day. Laura is getting the hang of working with a translater and kids who don't really get many english words. The kids are having fun with all of the toys we brought. Yesterday I was literally mobbed! I made the mistake of chasing down a crying child to give him a tootsie pop and the whole village ran after me. You would have laughed your head off. I ended up screaming for help.
Brian is doing great. They think he was stung by a bee and not bit by a spider. HIs hand is back to normal size, it is just red now.
We miss you all, give Mom and Okla a hug for us. We might not be able to write you again.
love ya Daddy!........
Sonia Griffith & Miriam