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Eric Rajah
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Eric in Sudan with CrossRoads Church Team
Oct 27 to Nov 3

Eric in Kenya with 40 Volunteers
Nov 4 to Nov 17

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July 23, 2009 – Reviewing Work Plans in Nakuru PDF Print E-mail
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We started our day with a working breakfast.  The ABW local team was invited to spend the morning to review work plans for Castleman Orphanage.  Regina, Everline and Nancy have been going to the Castleman Orphanage twice a  week.  We reviewed the action items we had discussed with Ian the previous day.  Also we did some accounting and budgeting training.
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July 22, 2009 PDF Print E-mail
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I got to the Khartoum airport by midnight and waited until 4 AM for my flight.  I made it to Nairobi by 7 AM and to our breakfast meeting by 8.



I was meeting with Hon. M.K.J. Langat, MP and Chair of a parliamentary committee. We have several successful projects in his constituency.  He had his team with him and we were able to discuss additional funding from the Kenyan Government. We have received project funding for several projects.
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July 21, 2009 – Susanne and her family of 8... Going from nothing to even less! PDF Print E-mail
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Some parts of my travel brings me very close and personal with untold challenges faced by human beings.  I am not always ready to face such suffering I see. I am sometimes brave enough to ask some questions to get a little better understanding of how people cope with life.

It happened today at the Kosti way Station in Sudan.  I was here several months ago with a team from the Red Deer CrossRoads Church.  I am back here again today.  The way station is where refugees get to spend two weeks as they travel in barges along the Nile River from the North to the South.  These people are referred to as returnees.  Some are going back to their land after many years. They have had children in the refugee camps and unable to cope with conditions they have boarded a barge with all of their belongings and are going back.  Most of these people’s possessions can be put on the back of a small donkey cart. Operating the way stations are some very dedicated ADRA staff from the Kosti office.


These barges then travel for several months  stopping at “way stations” for two weeks for people to get some better food, a shower, some training and counselling. About 600 people will land here every two weeks and this place will become a small town.  All of the possessions will be unloaded and reloaded when the next barge comes for the next leg of the trip.
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July 21, 2009 -Another great day of progress in Kosti, Sudan PDF Print E-mail
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We began our day early with meetings.  Breakfast is cookies and tea until 10AM when about an hour was spent eating fresh fried whole fish, fruit and naan bread.  The water corporation people also joined us for breakfast and had some good news.
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