(I wrote this post on Saturday evening.) Good news!  I’m heading out tomorrow for a trip to Israel with a bunch of people I know from my church in the US!  I can’t wait! More good news!  Our houses in the village are finally finished!  (Or at least they’re close enough to being finished […]

When I say “act like a teenage girl,” what picture comes to mind? I know that all teenage girls aren’t the same, but when you say that here (and it’s all one word in Jula – sunguruyake), it conveys the image of a girl dressing up all fancy, putting on makeup, flirting, trying to catch […]

On Thursday I got back to the city from 9 days in the village. And no, our houses aren’t done yet. But there is, like usual, a little bit of visible progress. First of all, our solar panels are installed on our roofs (sorry I don’t have a picture) and some of the electricity is […]

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted about Rachida and her hereditary retinoblastoma (eye cancer), but that’s because there hasn’t been any news. But now Rachida and her mom Awa and little brother Rachid (see the second picture) came back to town from the capital with plans to head back to Mali for more […]