MASTERPIECE BY MYRNA

My great friend, Myrna Dowden, painted this for me as a lasting memory for my Climb To End Poverty.  It's almost like being there...

AWESOME gift Queen Jar Head has been given by God....

PACK AND SHIP IS COMPLETE

God blessed us with a sunny, 55-degree day this last Saturday to stage and pack our sea container of medical equipment and supplies to ship to Kager in the upcoming weeks. 25 volunteers gathered from the JVP family and were directed by Shep, Bob, Dan and Bruce of FAME met to "get 'er dun" -- 2,560 cubit feet of medical goods with a total value $300,000 packed in a 40 x 8 x 8 ft sea container in 3 hours.

When we arrived, the guys from FAME had all the equipment already staged and palletized. A Basic Utility Vehicle (BUV) (http://www.drivebuv.org/ )was already loaded and they had built a wooden garage around it to allow us to maximize the pack.  Then the symphony of logistics began...hospital beds, wheelchairs, ultrasounds, blood pressure cuffs all went in to fill every nook and cranny in the container. Then desks, birthing beds, stretchers. Then books and art supplies from Franklin Middle School and Anne Okello's friends out east for the schools of Kager and Angiro. Then PETs (http://www.petinternational.org/ ) - personal energy transportation vehicles. Finally, 3 pallets of high-nutrition rice, soy, veggie and vitamin casserole (http://www.kidsagainsthunger.org/ ) to pack in the last 5 feet of the container.

It truly was amazing to see it come together and fit into the container. We can't wait to hear the praises we know will be lifted up when the container arrives in Kager and the villagers open it up and begin the unloading process.

On behalf of the the Jubilee Village Project, I want to thank all of the organizations that came together to make this sea container shipment possible:

- FAME
- Duke Realty, CareLink
- Hospital Sisters Mission Outreach

I want to also thank all of the Climb To End Poverty supporters again. Without your support, there would be no clinic expansion for all of this equipment to go into. Truly God continues to work before our very eyes to make this all possible.

Ned

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!?

If only the remodel of the bathroom in my home could go this quickly!

Hard to believe that in just three months, the Medical Clinic expansion has gone from groundbreaking to ceiling board hanging...

...bottom line is the villagers of Kager are motivated to have improved healthcare in their village and be ready for Team Indiana to be in Kager for Village Visit 9 in late February.

Here is the latest update and pics from David Kayando:

"I hope this finds you well and had a wonderful start of the year 2012. It is sometime before I send pictures on the progress of the dispensary expansion work.   

The work has been going on earnestly well with great progress. We are now through with both the interior and exterior wall and floor plastering.

We have done all the door fittings, all electricity wiring and there is now power in the new building.

The work going on currently is putting up of the ceiling board, curtain box and painting. As you can see from the pictures attached, we have began painting of the Phaser-board, and the window grills. We plan to paint the roof of the old building similar to the color of the new building."