Ventures with car

Lake duluti

Some good friends from “Good Old Home Germany” and our STA-church in
Germany collected some money for our kids to do some trips with all children together…
So, we borrow a little bus from ADRA! …and our first journey was to the “Lake Duluti”.
All 20 children and 5 adults had space in this little bus !!! Praise the Lord!

Ariel scared on board!...

mothers on board..

Evelyn on Board!... hanging the feet in the water together with little Enoch!

“Arusha National Park”

Our second trip was to the “Arusha National Park” …. Safari!

Last Sunday on 02.11.2008 we went with the kids from house 1, and next Sunday
on 09.11.2008 we will drive with the kids from house 2!

Sometimes Karen have driven the bus ;-)

Everybody wanted to sit in the front!

Sometimes tree kids sat down on Evelyn`s lap at the same time!

They saw a lot of animals like this giraffe…

Some monkeys, some zebras, some pigs, some buffalo and many many ants
Which all bit the kids …..

On a wonderful place on a hill we had a good picnic!

….”…mmmmhhh…WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD!!!!”

All together!!!!....

Lake Momela… in the Safari Park!

We had lot of fun together! Praise the Lord!!!
The children want to say “ASANTE SANA”
to all who helped to permitted them to do these trips!!!
More will follow!!!...

New Directors, first Blog

Hello here are the new Directors, Thomas and Evelyn from Austria and Germany. We are very happy that we are here with the kids. It’s really a wonderfull, nice and blessed place.

but we are realy sad about, that Ned and Emilys left us.. this is the last picture of them

“Don`t play with the water”….. a sentence which we often say to the kids!!..they love to play with water!

…So we had a small “water-battle”! It was so funny and all kids were very happy! Thomas, Evelyn, Ariel and Mariala were the chiefs!

Laughing children is a blessing!
Vero

Simon

Jacki

Lait

Seret

Deo

Playing together with Ariel…


“Fun time”….. a wheelbarrow full of kids


Some impressions to be together with the kids…
Evelyn with kids in haus 2

Thomas and Vivi

Evelyn and Viki

Two little monkeys from havilah!

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?!?