Our little alpha!!
Caleb tossing bricks! Definitely not the most fun job in the world and very hard work!!
Mmmmm... how I love the Ugandan rain falling on my skin!
Getting dirty from tossing bricks!
Emma and a little girl eating jack fruit! Jack fruit taste like a banana mixed with a pineapple and then add a ton of sweetness!!
Me and some of the kids from praise's home getting water from the water source. Last year they drank this water. Thankfully this year they have a bore hole (well) that has been built near by that they walk to for drinking water. With this water we made cement for a wall we built.
The brick passing line. In all my life I have never seen kids work as hard as these kids do!
The wall we built!
Couches on the back of a boda aka motorcycle!
Today we were super excited because we got to go back to Praise's home. We love her so much! She did what no one else would. She took in the fatherless, she took in the motherless, she took in the kids that no one else wanted even when it meant she could no longer do the things she wanted to! She is 26 and cares for close to 30 children. She loves those kids with all her heart.
Today we built them a squatty wall. They use a squatty for a bathroom. Basically it is like an outhouse. It is pretty much a hole in the ground with some walls, but no doors. :( Now imagine you have 30 children, from around 3-15. Some are boys and some are girls. This is hard for the older girls and boys because of privacy. We didn't have the resources to build doors so instead we built them a wall. It was pretty cool to see how people in other countries make do with what they have and get the job done. We loved helping them. It was special to work along side of the kids passing the bricks to get them from the other side of the street about 300 feet away. It was difficult, back breaking work for everyone.
Oh, how we long to back to Uganda. Our heart aches to go back and longs to hold those sweet precious kids again.
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