On the way to the distribution this morning at 5:30 AM we were travelling in the dark. There are no street lights and it is almost impossible to see people riding bikes, or deep potholes or "caution bumps" with no paint on them. Driving is definitely a scary experience!We arrived at 6:30 AM to find the truck carrying the 600 bedkits stuck in deep sand. Rather than unload and reload the truck the volunteers dug down and placed two-by-eights under the rear tires and pushed and pushed until they were able to move it.
Today was the hottest day we have experienced yet, with temperatures reaching close to 46 degrees. All of us felt the heat today but how could we complain when we found out that one hundred children had walked ten kilometres today to get their bedkits! On the way home the empty bedkit truck loaded all of them and their bedkits on the truck and took them home. Smiles all around.
The volunteers from Tanzania are awesome. On April 6th the school had received a well from a church organization and it was great to see them filling their cups and pumping the water -- certainly a real luxury for all of them.
There were so many thank you’s and curtsies when the children received their bedkit.
We came home hot and tired to no power again but most satisfied that SCAW has once again made a difference!
"Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile."
Thank you SCAW.
Gail Duncan,
SCAW 2006 Tanzania Travelling Team
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