Thursday, November 5, 2009

More Tsunami Villages

View from Ulutogia

Tsunami rubble.

oops.. they forgot the"T".

Leaders of the women's commitee. They will be starting a clean-up project on Monday.

Villagers listening at one of the meetings.

After the meeting at this village, they brought all of us each a HUGE platter of food. The people here are so hospitable and generous.

This little girl is half-palagi (white man); her mom got busy with a tourist. She was really cute.


You can't really tell from the picture, but this tree is MASSIVE. Like fify feet.
Papapapatai Waterfall

Russ and I, elbow to elbow.
The last couple of days we've been traveling a lot to more villages to set up projects. We've started two in Ulutgia and Saleeamua. Before we get a project going we have to have a bunch of meetings with the village chiefs. It's a really long process, but we have five more projects starting on monday!

2 comments:

  1. HAPPY BDAY tomorrow Benjamin - hopefully you get a birthday dinner like that again! We love ya - McCall and Jonny

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  2. Happy Birthday Ben!! We hope you have a great day in Samoa. :)
    Jim and Jen

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