Sosua Stories


Friday. Day 10

Nancy was taken to the clinic today and put on antibiotics. Her foot was cleaned up, skin cut away and dressed. She has been given plenty of dressings for her family to do over the weekend. I went down into Redemption to get my washing back from the lady down there doing our washing. I gave it to her yesterday without Pastor Joseph being there, said ...


Day 9. Dedication at Nazareth

This afternoon we met with Elio. What a powerful man of God. We heard some of his story. Eighteen years ago he came to the Dominican Republic as a tourist. One day while walking around Sosua he got lost and found himself in a slum area down by the sea. The houses there were very poor, falling down shacks. He saw the worst one in a really bad place an...


Wednesday. Day 8. Public Hospital

Richard and Paul over the week started a "block, blocky" competition. They would have a block and raise and lower it above their heads as many times as possible. Also one block in each hand and bend and straighten at the elbow. This is at the end of the mornings work, I suspect that Richard is winning!! After the first day of doing it they discovered th...


Feeding Redemption

We are working together well as a team. When we are at the building site we have a good laugh and give each other breaks etc. Fran and I had a go the other day at sliding down the hill on banana leaves, like the children do. But our bums were too big and so we couldn't slide down, the children were well amused!! When we're travelling around themain r...