Today is our first day of work. We began with the dedication of the new orphanage. The Secretary of Social Development attended and spoke at the Charity and Faith campus. This was huge deal because he is similar to a cabinet position to the US president. He promised to continue government money for projects at the campus to further our US/SA partnership. Pastor Titus was elated and even wore a handsome suit for the occasion.
During the service, we sat by Nelly and her friends. Nelly is Pastor Titus's cousin who runs an orphanage. We all connected while dancing, singing African songs (that she translated), and socializing. Nelly invited me to come to her orphanage and waited while I checked in for work that day.
I began in the IT room, an old classroom converted with donated computers. The tech guys were still connecting, installing, and setting up the system. They had a hard job of wiring a basic building, engineering the network, and creating two classroom systems 1000 yards from the Internet connection and each other. They could not use my non-technical mind, so I tried to get a pass to go with Nelly. I was not able to go but we were able to chat about her life and work. She is an angel to 16 orphans.
Jim and his team created a beautiful garden around the Orphanage, which is on the campus of the Charity and Faith church. He was a stud muffin with the wheelbarrow.
Jim spent the night relaxing at the hotel. I spent several hours trying to find a computer to use with working Internet and socializing with the IT guys. Amazingly after all the manual labor, Jim was not sore and tired, nothing short of a miracle that continued all week.
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