Kids on the mend

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Here are 4 of the current 14 kids in our mission hospital’s nutrition center. They each have severe malnutrition, but different types – you’re looking at marasmus & kwashiorkor. These children often have underlying medical problems, like TB, which helps …

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Mondays across the border

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A young mom weeding in her co-op’s veggie garden
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This is the women’s group across the border, yesterday, Feb. 8th, hearing a bible story about Joseph and a lesson about being careful about medicines, such as tetracycline, that they can …

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A snake in church!

There we were, a bunch of ladies squished all together along the bench at the back of the church, peacefully listening to a women’s group sing, when all of a sudden the woman just one person over from me jumped …

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Baby Kingfisher

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Poor little guy, the little boy who was selling frogs had this baby bird in his hand. I imagine he found it somewhere near its nest and thought it a possible toy or maybe a way to make an easy …

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Hungry?

Here’s a first, bundles of frogs for sale at the door, first thing on a Saturday morning! You want some frog legs for supper?
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Thank you Lord for bouquets in our yard!

Enjoy these flowers from our yard!
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Call for the sanitation dept.!

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Are you having issues with your garbage collection company? Just be thankful you don’t have to dig a pit for your trash like this one being dug at the hospital right now. Think it’s deep enough? It’ll probably be full …

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Monday across the border

We had a good trip on Monday to visit with our Fulani friends across the border. Here’s a photo of one of the veggie gardens that we are helping these former non-farming people to start.kentzou-veggies
As we drove on the …

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Road to the CEFA land

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Hurray!!! Work has started on the road out to the ag land! The photo shows the how the whole road is hopefully going to look in just a couple weeks. In the background you can just barely make out what …

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Agreement is signed!

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In this photo the president of the local Baptist church is signing the memorandum of understanding between his church/mission and Covenant World Mission. This agreement has been in the works for a LOOOONG time now, and we are thankful that …

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