One more week!! The drawing for the raffle will be held. One more week of setting up a tent and exhibit! One more week of talking and selling and the hot sun!!! One more week of packing it in and packing it out. And then it will be over.
This will be the last week of a summer filled, out and out, exhaustive effort to raise enough money to build a playground in Ada, Ghana. We are down to our last few hundred dollars. Hopefully, we will finish the project with a bang. Because I am tired!!
I have met wonderful people! I have shared our story hundreds of times. But we need to move on to getting ready for our group to go again in November. This year they have two goals: One is to find as many children unable to go to school and get them into school by working through the teachers of the area who know of their situations. Also, a part of that is making contact with all of our children that we now sponsor. Can't wait for that.
The second part of the trip is to open the library and get it up and running. We have run into a problem with the fear on the part of the school in Ada. They are so concerned that the books will be sent out of the school, never to be seen again. They have never had books, don't know what to do to control the "stealing" of the libary books. I would rather that the books be out in the children's hands than to sit unread on the shelf in a locked up library. So, it looks like some training and practice with the children and we should be up and flying.
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