THE CONTAINER ARRIVED

 

What a joyful day it was on Tuesday when a big semi pulled up to the Community Center carrying the 40 ft container that had traveled from Maryland, across the ocean to Dar Es Salaam, and by truck through Tanzania and Zambia.  A bobcat given by a church in MI had been the last thing loaded.  But it also had to be the last thing taken off.  So the many boxes, bags, bicycles, sewing machines, medical equipment, tools, and more was unloaded around the bobcat blocking the door.  It took our workers and some of our volunteers about 2 ½ hours to unload everything.  Items were organized in groups in the large room of the Community Center.  The work has just begun.  We will be having bookshelves of metal built for many of the books.  Sewing machines will be set up for the ladies.  Computers will be assembled for children and adults to learn.  And much, much more. 

 

For our family and the Kamau family we received boxes we had packed long ago to bring our things to Zambia.  As we unpacked these boxes it was a joyful, surprise to see the things we had forgotten about that we had packed. 

 

It will be exciting as box by box, and bag by bag we open all the things and organize a clothing store, a library and school classrooms.