A village and the White House


This is how we were greeted as we drove up to the Village. The little girl in the center is holding a basket that contains a gift tie that was presented to me
After I was presented with the tie these young dancers performed a traditional dance.
The dancers lead to this meeting area where school children and parents from the community had gathered. This was all for celebration and thanks for the project that we had funded.
Here are some of the children that were let out of school to attend the ceremony.
The project involved installing water tanks in two neighboring villages. This water tank had a ceremonial ribbon wrapped around it that I got to cut.
This is a picture of one of the finished water tanks.
The water tanks Supply water for domestic use and also for their Farm. Both Villages had previously drilled Wells that were ineffective during the dry season. The project involved deepening the wells, installing the tanks and installing piping.

The other portion of the project involved educating the farmers on how to increase Crop Production and how to more intelligently select the appropriate types of crops.

The project will be ongoing as the NGO provides long-term consulting to the the villages.
As with every ceremony there is a small meal. This is a close-up of the food before we ate. All of the Village meals are like this. The villagers don't seem to mind.

I was able to arrange a meeting with the advisor to the prime minister. I introduced LDS Charities and explained to him the work that we've been doing in this country. I was able to make arrangements for a future visit with one of our church general authorities to meet with the prime minister.

This is the first time we've ever had access to the national government. This is all because of Janu and his contacts within the government. Janu is a prominent member of the political party that is now in power.
After the meeting we took a picture from the balcony of the Capitol building overlooking the beach. Jenu is in the center and next to him is his associate whose name is Benny. Their main Capitol building which is used by the parliament is called the White House.

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