New Directors Arrive!

The new Havilah Village Directors have arrived safely and are finding their bearings here in Tanzania. Please meet Thomas and Evelyn Simader! Here are Thomas and Evelyn visiting the village home that two of our new children came from.
Here are Frazier and Lawrence at the same home (note the makeshift restroom facility in the background).

The following are just a sample of photos taken during the last few weeks.


Emily with the 'new girls,' Jessica, Diana, Lait, & Sereti
Dorcas, Vivi, and Jackie dressed up in traditional garb.

Meriella & Ariel with children all dressed up for church.

All kids enjoying the new picnic tables in the new picnic shelter!

Karen at the market with Ned.

Close up of Cory- he got to go to the market too that day!

This is Julius, the day watchman, and his family in front of his house. His mother (far right) has came to the house a few times to help out with the children when we did not have a house mother.

Ned and Emily will be leaving Tanzania in just 6 days. We are very excited to see friends and family but will dearly miss Havilah Village. We want to thank Frazier & Virginia and Global Vessels for the amazing opportunity they have allowed us here. We love these children as our own and are excited to watch them grow up in a home that is as blessed as Havilah Village. Good Bye for now!

House 2 Officially Opens!

We recieved 10 new children in House 2 this past Monday and they are sure cute...among other things. We have been without e-mail for a week or so, but will try to get more photos of them posted very soon!

First thing we did when the children arrived was to cut hair and take baths!
The 'old kids' were outside pushing the 'new kids' on the swings so we ran out to take photos. This is Diana, being pushed by Yasini. Her little brother Deo is a thumb-sucker.











Group shot.

We went for a walk the first afternoon and paired each kid up with another from House 1 to show them the ropes; this is Eric trying to teach Kevin some of our favorite songs.




All 20 playing London Bridges- or something kind of like that.

The best part of the day was right before lights out; last time a mission team came from the States Mama Kim brought along cabbage patch kids for the girls and we passed them out to help ease the pain of having to sleep in those great big beds all alone. These were VERY happy little girls.
Diana- 5
Sereti-5


Jessica - 5
Lait- 3

Meet the Mamas!

Mama Sarah is the mother for House 1. She has been here for about 4 months and is a fantastic mama. Her family comes from the Lake Victoria/Serengeti region of Tanzania and she has come to this side of the country looking for work. She reads Bible stories to the children almost every night, is a great cook, attends English classes every afternoon, and loves to eat cake.
The House 2 mother just arrived 3 days ago, meet Mama Joyce. We have known Joyce for several months because she has been working nearby at the Esther Daycare/Preschool center. She comes from the Lake Manyara region of Tanzania, speaks perfect English, and her father is an SDA pastor.

We are excited to have these two young ladies because they have enough energy for all of the hard work. We also think they are going to have a great time with Areil and Mariella.

MEET THE VOLUNTEERS!

We would like to welcome two new volunteers from Andrews University! They arrived about 3 weeks ago and will be spending the next 10 months of their junior year here in Africa.

Ariel Ross (left) is from San Antonio Texas, she is studying Anthropology and International Development. We are going to take in 10 new children soon and Ariel is going to tackle the job of working in the second house to help train and teach the new, younger children.

Mariella Beazley (right) is from Vancouver Washington, she is an aeronautical engineer and airplane pilot! Mariella will continue to help out in the first house and will take over teaching and preparing those children for the first grade. We are happy to have them here! Another new addition: Please meet Loveness Tumaini. She is six years old and a real sweet heart. She fits in really well with the House #1 Gang and we are very happy to have her.
Dorcas and Karen: These girls are the old timers around here, but we thought they looked so great in their school uniforms that we wanted to share a snap shot. School started Sept. 8th and they were happy to go back and leave the home school 'baby class' behind.... well, at least Karen was happy to go back!

Abdul, Vicotria, and Vivi: Hey! What about us? Don't you want to take our photo too?!?

Photos From Other Outings

As we have said before, the children at Havilah love any chance they get to take an outing... especially if it involves getting in a car! This group photo is from Easter. We were invited to go into Arusha and have lunch at Mama Rhoda's house. She had a TV AND served the kids soda, so it was a real treat!


We also took a trip to the nearby Snake Farm. Yep- snakes!
This particular snake is harmless, but even so Karen was the only child brave enough to hold it.

Here are Yasini and Enoch watching an Egyptian Cobra dancing, just like in the cartoons.

The girls taking an afternoon walk. This is something we try to do every day. This photo is from Frazier's visit back in February. We took the kids (via mini van) to a wildlife sanctuary where zebra, ostrich, water buffalo, and exotic birds are grazing just 30-50 yards away.

ALL DRESSED UP!

Everyone loves Sabato and the opportunity to put on their pretty dresses!

Here is Ned with his mapacha (twins), Vivi and Vicki

Friends holding hands on the way to church.

Karen recieved this beautiful 'gowni' when the student group from Tacoma Academy came to visit...and she loves it.


Of all the children, Vivi has the biggest heart for her brothers and sisters. Here she is giving a tired Enoch a lift home from church.















House 1 Gang: All the kids, Ned & Emily, and Mama Sarah

CREATIVE ATTEMPTS

It has been a good 8 months or so since we first broke into all of the wonderful arts and crafts supplies in the 'Activity Room' here at Havilah Village. These photos are from the very early days.... when we had to learn how to put our fingers in the little holes AND keep our fingers bent in order to make the scissors cut anything. We learned what glue is, how to trace our own hands, and much more.

(Here are Dorcas, Vivi, and Abdul concentrating on cutting a straight line!)


At first they were so timid and would not try any of the crafts themselves, "I can't do it, I don't know ho," they would say. I finally decided to leave them in the activity room alone to be free with all of the supplies...even the glue. It worked well because they all became really excited about their own little creations. When they drug me back into the room to show me what the had done I discovered that they had indeed found their own creativity, and had literally glued it all over the walls!


(This is one of Jackie's most common mischievous little expressions.)














Abdul Rabi and Eric wearing their new pipe cleaner spectacles.














Karen sporting hers...