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November 2011

Journal 10 – November 10, 2011

Greetings from Zimbabwe, The old truck has been sold. We received $1,500 for it and it will cost more than that for the buyer to put it in running condition. The money from the sale [...]

October 2011

Journal 9: October 31, 2011 From Zimbabwe

Greetings from Zimbabwe, I have commented in previous journals about the weather being so mild for this time of year. October is usually the hottest month of the year; this year the nights have been [...]

October 8, 2011 Zimbabwe Journal 7

Greetings from Zimbabwe, The weather is very cool today, as it was yesterday. It seems that the heavy rains have cooled the air. It is something I have never experienced this time of year in [...]

September 2011

September 14, 2011 Zimbabwe Mission

Greetings from Zimbabwe, Our gardener, Lovemore’s wife passed away a couple of days ago in Motoko. She had been in not good health for some time. More recently she had been in the hospital in [...]

September 04, 2011 Zimbabwe Journal

Greetings from Zimbabwe, Our need for an ambulance was reaffirmed this afternoon. Late in the afternoon, Jeff was summoned to take a woman to the hospital. Beauty the nurse felt that she was having a [...]

September 2, 2011 Arrive in Harare

Greetings, Jeff and I arrived safely in Harare about 6:30 last night, Friday.  We stayed at the B & B that Ralph and I often stayed at.  The drive was long and tiring but had [...]

October 2010

October 21, 2010 Children of Zimbabwe

Greetings from Colorado, I apologize for not sending a final journal from Zimbabwe indicating that we would be returning to Colorado. On Oct. first, we had a window in our truck smashed in Harare and [...]

September 2010

September 17, 2010 Water at Last

Greetings from Zimbabwe, Ralph and I stayed overnight in town after putting Todd on the plane for his flight home.  The following day we drove up to Howard Hospital with Priscilla and Claudio Penny.  We [...]

Arrival in Zimbabwe

Greetings from Zimbabwe, I just realized that the first journal I wrote when we arrived in Zimbabwe did not send. I apologize for keeping you wondering if we arrived safely. All is well here. We [...]

September 2, 2010 Water & Medical in Zimbabwe

Greetings from Zimbabwe, The past week has been packed full.  Deanna, Carol and Todd arrived late August 23.  We had made arrangements in advance to stay in town overnight. The next morning a meeting was [...]

August 2010

August 19, 2010 New Bike for Rosemary

Greetings from Zimbabwe Recently I wrote about our gardener having to walk such a long way to come to work.  She told me that she left home at 5:30 a.m. in order to arrive at [...]

August 4, 2010 Much is Needed, Much is Provided

Friends, Amanda and Joan are home now.  It is a bit lonely here without them.  Amanda had a difficult time leaving.  She was anxious to go home but knew she would miss the children.  There [...]

July 2010

July 28, 2010 Plans for Moringa Plantation

Rosemary is one of the gardeners at HCOC.  She is a faithful employee and a dedicated worker.  Rosemary lives near Guzha Primary School which is 15 km or nearly 10 mile from the HCOC garden.  [...]

July 4, 2010 A Renewed Hope in Zimbabwe

Dear Readers, After visiting the new site and watching ZESA people install the transformer, we decided to drive Joan and Amanda to where the bridge was built ten years ago.  We continued on so that [...]

July 2, 2010 New Water Well in Zimbabwe

Dear Readers As is usual in Africa, things never happen as planned. We didn’t leave Pretoria, S.A. until Tuesday morning. We drove close to the border and spent the night. Our start the next morning [...]