Picrues and Descriptions

Here are few more pictures and descriptions to show a little more of what we did.

Here is a picture of one of the markets that we went to. They were interesting because they had the different products in rows. Like they would have all the fruit on one row and all of the hats in another row. I just thought that it was funny how they placed all of them together because it made the competition so much harder but at least it was easy for us to know where we had been.

Here is a picture of some of the houses that we went to to build the latrines. They were all rusty tin shacks. You see the pictures of houses like that but you don't really realize that is how they really live. The picture doesn't do it justice. If you eve have the chance to go on a mission trip, I would really encourage you to go because you will see things that you won't see at home.

Here is one of the latrines we built. They had made the base before we came and we made the frame and put on the sides and roof. One thing that I thought was funny was we used Corona bottle caps for the washers on the sides and roof. There was Corona ALL OVER where we were so there were more beer caps than washers, thus making them cheaper. I have had a lot of people ask me how the latrines worked so here it is. The base is really two chambers. The latrine has two holes. The people will go in one hole until it fills up (which takes about six months). Then they will seal off the first chamber and go in the other chamber while the waste in the first decomposes. By the time the second chamber fills up, the second will be completely dead and they will be able to scoop it out and dispose of the compost how ever they want. The vision of Medical Teams Int. is to help the people become self-sufficient. With this design, they won't need us to come back and dig another hole when the hole fills up. They will have the ability to keep everything going themselves. That is the beauty of this design.

Here is us playing songs at one of the Bible clubs. One of the songs that we played was "Every Move I Make." They really loved the hand motions for that song. We played it once at the beginning and once at the end. At the end we had all the kids doing the motions. Even after, I heard kids singing "Na, na, na, na, na" and doing the hand motions. It was really fun.

I hope you enjoyed this little explanation. If you have any questions about the pictures or anything, PLEASE ask. We have loads of stories that we want to share. We would love to tell you more about the trip.

Stephen