Lightness’s Women’s Projects, March Update
Updates from our February 2020 Visit I wish each and every one of you could experience the joy we experienced over the last two weeks. Our journey to Lake Eyasi in February 2020 was a very special one filled with much celebration. We arrived to a large celebration of the new well. The sun was […]
Christina: New Journeys of Solutions Homeowner
Imagine the walls of your house are made of mud and the straw roof leaks onto the mud floor in the rainy season, soaking your 5 children. Your husband left you years ago. Your one meal a day is boiled cornmeal. It is a 45-minute walk to water. Despite all this, when visitors come to […]
Lightness Women’s Homes In Africa April 2017 Update
Imagine yourself dancing alongside local tribal women to a deep, resonating drumbeat until sweat is pouring off you. These are the same women you have sat with on the tarp to pick out pieces of rice, stirred porridge over the fire, held their babies and sat in their smoky mud and wattle houses. The women encourage you to jump alongside with them in the dance steps. Finally, you need to sit down.
In February 8 of us spent almost 2 weeks with Lightness and her projects. We painted the walls and dug foundations for 3 houses to replace the fallen, mud hut, these single women of 4 to 6 children live in. It is not really possible I think to understand what these houses mean to these mom’s.
Lightness Women’s Homes Update December ’16
There was huge excitement 2 weeks ago in the small village near Lake Eyasi, Tanzania. Several trucks loaded with bricks arrived and the first of hopefully many houses had their foundation laid. In February, 2017, a group of 7 volunteers plus Yusuf and Lightness will be on site working with the local tribal women and […]