So far this has been a busy week and there is more to come! I made a trip out to the orphanage for the monthly clinic visit. Craig and family stayed in Sweya to continue making repairs/changes to the towel rod brackets. Ferdinand came with me on the clinic trip because we were also scheduled to pick up a technician coming from Nairobi. I was very thankful for how these events all coordinated so that no extra trips into town had to be made. God is good in all things.
The technician was coming because our solar hot water tank on the house needed to be fixed. I had been working since February through a solar businessman in town to find a solution to our problem but to no avail. Then in April, when I was in Nairobi visiting my friends, the Weavers, I saw that they had several solar hot water tanks on their camp property. Joel was able to do some advocacy on Tumaini's behalf and started communicating with the company to send a technician down to Mwanza so the tank could be fixed. Since April, we've been waiting for the technician to come! I was overjoyed to see him with the hopes that our hot water tank would finally work. We picked up the clinic people and headed back to Tumaini. The technician got to work right away and was able to fix the problem almost immediately. Now we just need to get a plumber out to the orphanage to fix several plumbing problems so we can use the hot water in the showers. Pretty much right away we were able to feel the water turning warm/hot. Everyone at Tumaini was very excited by this! Another plus to having the hot water tank fixed is that we can (hopefully) save some money on cooking fuel since the cooks won't need to heat water for baths anymore.
Mwanza, Tanzania, East Africa
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