We awoke around 4 a.m. this morning to one heck of a storm!
Some of us awoke to water in our rooms. Today's labels took a bit of a soaking but we were able to salvage them.
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| A Stormy Start from Togo 2013 |
By 7:30 a.m. we received a call to delay our departure because the children would not be arriving at the site on time.
This allowed Bill, "notre chef extraordinaire Togolese", to do a quick clean up of the kitchen and to join us. Bill has cooked meals for SCAW teams for seven years and had never been on a distribution.
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| Bob the chief and Bill the chef from Togo 2013 |
Yet another call en route reported a further delay which give us time to check out a local artisan centre.
By the time we arrived at the site, the storm had cleared. We were able to set up the photography outside and the rest of the distribution was completed without a hitch. Five hundred children are tucked in their new beds tonight.
We benefited from the cooler temperatures and cloud cover which followed the storm. It was only 89F.
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| The team at work from Togo 2013 |
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| The team at work from Togo 2013 |
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| The team at work from Togo 2013 |
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| Faces in the crowd from Togo 2013 |
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| Faces in the crowd from Togo 2013 |
On the way home we drove higher up into the lush rain forest giving us a look at another side of Togo.
We bought ripe yellow bananas fresh off the tree and devoured them immediately. Yum!
We headed back to Lome in time to grab 4 hockey bags of medical supplies arranged by Doug MacDougald and deliver them to a local clinic.
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| Medical Supplies for the Clinic from Togo 2013 |
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| A gift of a soccer ball from Canada from Togo 2013 |
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| A gift of chalk from Canada from Togo 2013 |
Another busy but satisfying day.
Team Togo 2013
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