This man without feet is waiting for his wheelchair. Watching these people receive these wheelchairs was a very humbling experience. We really take so many things for granted.

At the Handicap Center, Elder and Sister Barlow who are the Humanitarian directors for our mission arranged for wheelchairs to be distributed to people. Many of them have had to crawl for years and use shoes, or flip flops or blocks of wood under their hands.

President Iyomi on the far right is the President of the Kasa Vuba Stake in Kinshasa. He is a doctor by profession. He spoke at the ceremony. The man in the wheelchair was so excited!

As we were walking back from Camp Luka, we passed this "shop" under a tree. The lady in the back of the picture was sewing clothing on an old treadle sewing machine. (These machines were invented in 1851 by Isaac Singer.) She hangs the items to sell on the wall behind her. Many people set up these little shops right along the trails or roads and almost all of them are the old treadle machines. That's because they don't usually have electricity in these villages or in town for that matter.

At the far left you can see people filling their water containers. This picture above is the old latrine they used before the nice new blue one was built.

Beautiful faces of the children.

This water tower was installed by
This water tower that was arranged for by the Humanitarian arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints makes it possible for the villagers to get water right in their village rather than walking 6 kilometers each way to obtain water.

We got to go to the closing ceremony for this Latrine project at Camp Luka. You can see the before and after pictures. What a great improvement for their village. This was built next to the school. IFESH and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints partnered to do this project. They use local people to do the work and teach them the skills of how to build and maintain it. They also taught a hygiene class with the idea that the members would teach their families and other villagers.

These children are playing a game with wrappers. Their goal is to win as many as they can. They flip some kind of object and the winners take a wrapper. I guess it is their version of playing for marbles.
We checked to see what unit this Cub Scout was from only to learn it is a shirt that had come from Colorado. He was very proud of it! I don't think he even knows what a Cub Scout is.
All of the children love to have their picture taken. Thank heavens for digital cameras so we can show them their pictures. They get so excited to see themselves and their friends.

We spent a day with our friends from Tifie looking at their projects. This cute lady was teaching people how to whistle through her hands and had such a fun hairdo.
This is another little girl carrying her little brother who fell sound asleep.


















Some of their faces tear your heart out. But when you show them their picture, they usually burst into huge smiles!


This little girl in the center of the picture is on her way to get water from the water tower that the church Humanitarian Group brought to her village. Notice she is carrying one jug and has another strapped to her back.

Everywhere we go we see children 4-8 years old carrying younger siblings that range from tiny infants to 2 years old.