Hello there friends..... :)
Well its been a good week with keeping busy & getting jobs done here & there. We were out of firewood for cooking rice so we went to a small palm tree plantation & got a big load of palm tree branches which took about 3 hours to collect all we needed it was very tiring! Also there were horrible big orange spiders hiding in them I was worried some might come out as I was carrying a load and try to eat my face but they didn't & I was ok. Here's a pic of the truckload and the plantation;
The total cost for the wood was 300 rupees & truck hire 450 which is a total of about £8 which is a bargain so I decided we would pay for it out of the budget.
Some bad news- my friend Paraman the woodcutter has had a very unfortunate episode with some very heavy 50 kilo bags of rice that were delivered & has been taken to hospital with hernia- which makes me feel extra bad about beating him in an arm wrestle the other day. He will be ok but it's going to cost him so I've decided we will help with some of his hospital bills, 2000 rupees which is just over £20. The total costs of his treatment could be as much as 7000 rupees but we don't know yet. When considering he only earns 5000 a month that's a lot of money for him. I'd like to help more but the budget is not permitting at the moment.
On that subject earlier in the week I decided that we would pay for all the seed that was planted the other week. Initially they asked to borrow it but I decided that we were in budget to help out there as well which is all great stuff.
One other bad bit if news is that the medical visits out to the villages to give injections to the poor people has still not gone ahead as we have still not received the medicine from the distributors, so please could you pray for this to all come together. Even though its hotter now than we get to enjoy in our summer it is winter for them here & when the rains come the people get sick like we do in our winter time so we really need to get out there to help them.
Tomorrow I will be travelling to Madurai City to visit the school in Melayakudi. I am very much looking forward to this as I've often heard it talked about in church with the charitable work that we do in helping them & now I'm getting to visit which is great. I'll be taking pictures & videos to share the experience with you. And on that subject I have made another video for you- a tour of the Hospice. I've already done this with photos when I first arrived here but I though you might appreciate a proper look round. Here's the link;
http://youtu.be/zC5IGjKzPj8
Again, if you don't know how to open the link if you scroll down to the post I made on Sunday 1st September it gives a very simple lesson on how to watch them. Bye for now everyone hope you are all well & missing me like crazy! ;) Stuart :) x x x
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