March 31st, 2009

The heavens opened and it poured rain for about ½ an hour just before we got up this morning. The rain cooled things down but once again we worked in the mud. Everyone was in good spirits and it was easier going with the cooler temp, Kees found it too cool. Today we just built more of the inside walls and cleaned up the work site of broken bricks. Dr. Brooks gave us a tour of the maternity clinic which should be opening soon. It is a wonderful building and should help immensely with decreasing the child birth mortality rate here in the area. With the economic downturn in the world, the funding of starting the clinic has been greatly affected. More funds need to be raised to pay for the wages of the staff and material.