A father and daughter team demonstarting their catapult made for the science project. The water filled balloon 'flew' the distance of our soccer field and certainly attracted a lot of attention after school. They demonstrated a few more flying balloons.



Mary went with Toni and George Fernhout - CRWRC - this past week on a goat distribution - part of their work of providing hurricane relief to selected families in the ten communities. Here you can see the tagged goats and a lead rope around their necks. What a gift for the people!


Mary also had the opportunity to go to the port and see the rice being unloaded from the ship from Central America, then put into a hopper and bagged there on the spot. With a conveyor belt they loaded the trucks. Yesterday I had the opportunity to see the rice delivered to the people.

This is the conveyor beside the hopper where the rice was loaded onto the trucks.







A snapshot of George and Paul (from SKDE - working with the communities and George) weighing the bean bags to see if they were to the specifications given. The beans and rice were to supplement the people until harvest time - when their own crops would provide enough food for them once again. Most of these families had one meal a day and the rice, beans and oil would help to have two meals a day.



This gives an idea of the amount of rice and oil. We went to four communities where they put the supplies in storage and then the families would have to come and pick up the supplies. The same families received seeds for their fields, a hoe, a wheel barrow to share and three feedings to tie them over till the harvest of their crops.